She kissed him a dozen times or more and told him she loved him--
and I did not even smile, nor did I want to. Somehow, it did not
seem in the least funny to me then, nor does it now, although it
doubtless will to others. There was too much real intensity
of feeling in it all to leave any room for the ridiculous.
So wrapped up in each other were they that I did not
even feel superfluous.
I set them safely down in Aunt Olivia's yard and turned homeward,
completely forgotten by the pair. But in the moonlight, which flooded
the front of the house, I saw something that testified eloquently
to the transformation in Aunt Olivia. It had rained that afternoon
and the yard was muddy. Nevertheless, she went in at her front door
and took Mr. Malcolm MacPherson in with her without even a glance
at the scraper!
VIII. The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's
I refused to take that class in Sunday School the first time I was asked.
It was not that I objected to teaching in the Sunday School. On the
contrary I rather liked the idea; but it was the Rev. Mr. Allan
who asked me, and it had always been a matter of principle with me
never to do anything a man asked me to do if I could help it.
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