It was very large and heavy , and Felicity generally said hard things of it when she swept the kitchen . `` This old blue chest holds a tragedy , '' explained the Story Girl . `` I know a story about it . '' `` Cousin Rachel Ward 's wedding things are all in that old chest , '' said Felicity . Who was Cousin Rachel Ward ? And why were her wedding things shut up in an old blue chest in Uncle Alec 's kitchen ? We demanded the tale instantly . The Story Girl told it to us as she peeled her potatoes . Perhaps the potatoes suffered -- Felicity declared the eyes were not properly done at all -- but the story did not . `` It is a sad story , '' said the Story Girl , `` and it happened fifty years ago , when Grandfather and Grandmother King were quite young . Grandmother 's cousin Rachel Ward came to spend a winter with them . She belonged to Montreal and she was an orphan too , just like the Family Ghost . I have never heard what she looked like , but she MUST have been beautiful , of course . '' `` Mother says she was awful sentimental and romantic , '' interjected Felicity . `` Well , anyway , she met Will Montague that winter . He was handsome -- everybody says so '' -- `` And an awful flirt , '' said Felicity . `` Felicity , I WISH you would n't interrupt . It spoils the effect . What would you feel like if I went and kept stirring things that did n't belong to it into that pudding ? I feel just the same way .
Well , Will Montague fell in love with Rachel XXXXX , and she with him , and it was all arranged that they were to be married from here in the spring .
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