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 to find out that , '' said John admiringly . `` Now , a man would never have thought of it ! Whereas , it 's my belief that if you was to pack a wedding-cake up in a tea-chest , or a turn-up bedstead , or a pickled-salmon keg , or any unlikely thing , a woman would be sure to find it out directly . Yes ; I called for it at the pastrycook 's . '' `` And it weighs I do n't know what -- whole hundredweights ! '' cried Dot , making a great demonstration of trying to lift it . `` Whose is it , John ? Where is it going ? ''
`` Read the writing XXXXX the other side , '' said John .
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