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"
Well, I must be going--it's getting towards supper time. Make yourself
at home, Mr. Tracy, you'll hear the bell when it's ready."
The landlady took her tranquil departure, without commanding either of
the young people to vacate the room. The young man wondered a little
that a mother who seemed so honest and respectable should be so
thoughtless, and was reaching for his hat, intending to disembarrass the
girl of his presence; but she said:
"
"
"
Where are you going?"
Well--nowhere in particular, but as I am only in the way here--"
Why, who said you were in the way? Sit down--I'll move you when you are
in the way."
She was making the beds, now. He sat down and watched her deft and
diligent performance.
"
What gave you that notion? Do you reckon I need a whole room just to
make up a bed or two in?"
"
Well no, it wasn't that, exactly. We are away up here in an empty
house, and your mother being gone--"
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