And he came so often after that that even Nancy got resigned to him . One day I had to tell her something . I shrank from doing it , for I feared it would make her feel badly . `` Oh , I 've been expecting to hear it , '' she said grimly . `` I felt the minute that man came into the house he brought trouble with him . Well , Miss Charlotte , I wish you happiness . I do n't know how the climate of California will agree with me , but I suppose I 'll have to put up with it . '' `` But , Nancy , '' I said , `` I ca n't expect you to go away out there with me . It 's too much to ask of you . '' `` And where else would I be going ? '' demanded Nancy in genuine astonishment . `` How under the canopy could you keep house without me ? I 'm not going to trust you to the mercies of a yellow Chinee with a pig-tail . Where you go I go , Miss Charlotte , and there 's an end of it . '' I was very glad , for I hated to think of parting with Nancy even to go with Cecil . As for the blank book , I have n't told my husband about it yet , but I mean to some day . And I 've subscribed for the Weekly Advocate again . III . HER FATHER 'S DAUGHTER `` We must invite your Aunt Jane , of course , '' said Mrs. Spencer . Rachel made a protesting movement with her large , white , shapely hands -- hands which were so different from the thin , dark , twisted ones folded on the table opposite her .
The difference was not caused by hard work or the lack of it ; XXXXX had worked hard all her life .
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