We seemed to have no interests outside of ourselves . Even Elizabeth has been really nothing to us , you know . She seemed to have become a stranger . I hope her child will be the means of bringing us nearer together again . '' `` If she has James Sheldon 's round face and big blue eyes and curly yellow hair I shall never really like her , no matter how Ingelowish she may be inside , '' said Ellen decidedly . When Worth Sheldon came , each of her aunts drew a long breath of relief . Worth was not in the least like her father in appearance . Neither did she resemble her mother , who had been a sprightly , black-haired and black-eyed girl . Worth was tall and straight , with a long braid of thick , wavy brown hair , large , level-gazing grey eyes , a square jaw , and an excellent chin with a dimple in it . `` She is the very image of Mother 's sister , Aunt Alice , who died so long ago , '' said Charlotte . `` You do n't remember her , Ellen , but I do very well . She was the sweetest woman that ever drew breath . She was Paul 's favourite aunt , too , '' Charlotte added with a sigh . Paul 's antagonistic attitude was the only drawback to the joy of this meeting . How delightful it would have been if he had not refused to be there too , to welcome Elizabeth 's child . Worth came to hearts prepared to love her , but they must have loved her in any case . In a day Aunt Charlotte and Aunt Ellen and shy , quiet Uncle George had yielded wholly to her charm . She was girlishly bright and merry , frankly delighted with the old homestead and the quaint , old-fashioned , daintily kept rooms . Yet there was no suggestion of gush about her ; she did not go into raptures , but her pleasure shone out in eyes and tones . There was so much to tell and ask and remember the first day that it was not until the second morning after her arrival that Worth asked the question her aunts had been dreading .
She asked it out XXXXX the orchard , in the emerald gloom of a long arcade of stout old trees that Grandfather Ingelow had planted fifty years ago .
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