`` God bless you , dears , '' she said softly . `` I believe you will be happy and that your love for each other will always be true and faithful and tender . Willard , I give you my dear child in perfect trust and confidence . '' With her yellowed love letter clasped to her heart , and a raptured shining in her eyes , Miss Sally went out of the room . My Lady Jane The boat got into Broughton half an hour after the train had gone . We had been delayed by some small accident to the machinery ; hence that lost half-hour , which meant a night 's sojourn for me in Broughton . I am ashamed of the things I thought and said . When I think that fate might have taken me at my word and raised up a special train , or some such miracle , by which I might have got away from Broughton that night , I experience a cold chill . Out of gratitude I have never sworn over missing connections since . At the time , however , I felt thoroughly exasperated . I was in a hurry to get on . Important business engagements would be unhinged by the delay . I was a stranger in Broughton . It looked like a stupid , stuffy little town . I went to a hotel in an atrocious humor . After I had fumed until I wanted a change , it occurred to me that I might as well hunt up Clark Oliver by way of passing the time . I had never been overly fond of Clark Oliver , although he was my cousin . He was a bit of a cad , and stupider than anyone belonging to our family had a right to be . Moreover , he was in politics , and I detest politics . But I rather wanted to see if he looked as much like me as he used to .
I had n't seen him for three years and I hoped that the time might have differentiated us XXXXX a saving degree .
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