--As soon as I
am on board at Dover for Paris, you and John must get yourselves married
the first possible moment, and settle down here--to make the best of the
farm you can, and send me what you can spare. I shall not want much, and
John will have his own soon. I know you will be good to Martha!"
"John may take the farm if he will. It would be immeasurably better than
living with his mother. For me, I am going with my uncle. Why, uncle, I
should be miserable in John's very arms and you out of the country for
our sakes! Is there to be nobody in the world but husbands, forsooth! I
should love John ever so much more away with you and my duty, than if I
had him with me, and you a wanderer. How happy I shall be, thinking of
John, and taking care of you!"
He let me run on. When I stopped at length--
"In any case," he said with a smile, "we cannot do much till I am
dressed!"
CHAPTER XXVII.
AN ENCOUNTER.
I left my uncle's room, and went to my own, to make what preparation I
could for going abroad with him. I got out my biggest box, and put in all
my best things, and all the trifles I thought I could not do without.
Then, as there was room, I put in things I could do without, which yet
would be useful. Still there was room; the content would shake about on
the continent! So I began to put in things I should like to have, but
which were neither necessary nor useful.
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