If you had never gone to Beechwood in my place , this would never have happened . '' `` Say rather that if we had n't gone to confess our fault , it would never have happened , '' said Worth gently . `` I 'm very , very glad that I have found Uncle George and such a loving welcome to his home . But I 'm gladder still that I 've got my self-respect back . I feel that I can look Worth Gordon in the face again . '' `` I 've learned a wholesome lesson , too , '' admitted Millicent . The Blue North Room `` This , '' said Sara , laying Aunt Josephina 's letter down on the kitchen table with such energy that in anybody but Sara it must have been said she threw it down , `` this is positively the last straw ! I have endured all the rest . I have given up my chance of a musical education , when Aunt Nan offered it , that I might stay home and help Willard pay the mortgage off -- if it does n't pay us off first -- and I have , which was much harder , accepted the fact that we ca n't possibly afford to send Ray to the Valley Academy , even if I wore the same hat and coat for four winters . I did not grumble when Uncle Joel came here to live because he wanted to be ` near his dear nephew 's children . ' I felt it my Christian duty to look pleasant when we had to give Cousin Caroline a home to save her from the poorhouse . But my endurance and philosophy , and worst of all , my furniture , has reached a limit . I can not have Aunt Josephina come here to spend the winter , because I have no room to put her in . '' `` Hello , Sally , what 's the matter ? '' asked Ray , coming in with a book . It would have been hard to catch Ray without a book ; he generally took one even to bed with him . Ray had a headful of brains , and Sara thought it was a burning shame that there seemed to be no chance for his going to college . `` You look all rumpled up in your conscience , beloved sis , '' the boy went on , chaffingly . `` My conscience is all right , '' said Sara severely . `` It 's worse than that .
XXXXX you please , here 's a letter from Aunt Josephina !
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