This was on Wednesday. On Thursday came a letter from Aunt Ella. It
contained the most kindly congratulations, and a neat little wedding
present of a check for fifty thousand dollars. She wrote further that
she was lonesome and wanted somebody to read to her, and talk to her,
and sing to her. If the book was done, would not Miss Very come to spend
the remainder of the season with her, and if Mr. Ernst was there could
he not spare time to escort Miss Very.
That same evening Leopold received a letter from Mr. Morton. It simply
read, "Blennerhassett accepted; will be put in type at once and issued
by the first of November, perhaps sooner."
The next morning Leopold and Rosa started for Old Orchard, and the
lovers were left alone to pass their honeymoon, with the blue sea about
them, the blue sky above them, and a love within their hearts which grew
stronger day by day.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
LINDA'S BIRTHRIGHT.
For Quincy and Alice, day after day, and week after week, found them in
a state of complete happiness. The little island floating in the azure
sea was their world, and for the time, no thought of any other intruded
upon their delightful Eden.
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