`` Why , so do I , then , '' said the Carrier . `` So do I , Dot . '' `` I love it for the many times I have heard it , and the many thoughts its harmless music has given me . Sometimes , in the twilight , when I have felt a little solitary and down-hearted , John -- before baby was here , to keep me company and make the house gay -- when I have thought how lonely you would be if I should die ; how lonely I should be , if I could know that you had lost me , dear ; its Chirp , Chirp , Chirp upon the hearth has seemed to tell me of another little voice , so sweet , so very dear to me , before whose coming sound my trouble vanished like a dream . And when I used to fear -- I did fear once , John ; I was very young , you know -- that ours might prove to be an ill-assorted marriage , I being such a child , and you more like my guardian than my husband ; and that you might not , however hard you tried , be able to learn to love me , as you hoped and prayed you might ; its Chirp , Chirp , Chirp has cheered me up again , and filled me with new trust and confidence . I was thinking of these things to-night , dear , when I sat expecting you ; and I love the Cricket for their sake ! '' `` And so do I , '' repeated John . `` But , Dot ! I hope and pray that I might learn to love you ? How you talk ! I had learnt that long before I brought you here , to be the Cricket 's little mistress , Dot ! '' She laid her hand , an instant , on his arm , and looked up at him with an agitated face , as if she would have told him something . Next moment , she was down upon her knees before the basket ; speaking in a sprightly voice , and busy with the parcels . `` There are not many of them to-night , John , but I saw some goods behind the cart just now ; and though they give more trouble , perhaps , still they pay as well ; so we have no reason to grumble , have we ? Besides , you have been delivering , I dare say , as you came along ? '' `` Oh , yes ! '' John said . `` A good many . '' `` Why , what 's this round box ? Heart alive , John , it 's a wedding-cake ! ''
`` Leave a woman alone XXXXX find out that , '' said John admiringly .
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