I don't think anybody would, or ought to, marry me,"
added Verty, sighing.
Redbud laughed, and colored.
"Perhaps you can go to college, though," she said.
"I'm afraid not," said Verty; "but I won't complain. Why should I?
Besides, I would have to leave you all here, and I never could make up
my mind to that."
("Let it go, Ralph!" from Fanny.
To which the individual addressed, replies:
"Oh, certainly, by all means, darling of my heart!")
Redbud smiled.
"I think we are very happy here," she said; "there cannot be anything
in the Lowlands prettier than the mountains--"
"Oh! I know there is not!" exclaimed Verty, with the enthusiasm of the
true mountaineer.
"Besides," said Redbud, taking advantage of this return to brighter
thoughts, "I don't think learning is so important, Verty. It often
makes us forget simple things, and think we are better than the rest
of the world--"
"Yes," said Verty.
"That is wrong, you know. I think that it would be dearly bought, if
we lost charity by getting it," said the girl, earnestly.
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