`` You can talk just as well later on . Work first and then play used to be my motto when I was a girl . '' `` Oh , we 've just reversed that in this generation , Aunty . OUR motto is play your play and then dig in . You can do your work so much better if you 've had a good bout of play first . '' `` If you are going to marry a minister , '' said Aunt Jamesina , picking up Joseph and her knitting and resigning herself to the inevitable with the charming grace that made her the queen of housemothers , `` you will have to give up such expressions as ` dig in . ' '' `` Why ? '' moaned Phil . `` Oh , why must a minister 's wife be supposed to utter only prunes and prisms ? I sha n't . Everybody on Patterson Street uses slang -- that is to say , metaphorical language -- and if I did n't they would think me insufferably proud and stuck up . '' `` Have you broken the news to your family ? '' asked Priscilla , feeding the Sarah-cat bits from her lunchbasket . Phil nodded . `` How did they take it ? '' `` Oh , mother rampaged . But I stood rockfirm -- even I , Philippa Gordon , who never before could hold fast to anything . Father was calmer . Father 's own daddy was a minister , so you see he has a soft spot in his heart for the cloth . I had Jo up to Mount Holly , after mother grew calm , and they both loved him .
But mother gave him some frightful hints in every conversation regarding what she had hoped XXXXX me .
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