Why , it 's romance with a vengeance , that 's what it is . Get up , my nag , get up . '' Thereafter Jed called at the Adams place every week . Generally he stayed to tea . Mattie always bought something of him to colour an excuse . Her kitchen fairly glittered with new tinware . She gave Selena the overflow by way of heaping coals of fire . After every visit Jedediah held stern counsel with himself and decided that he must not call to see Mattie again -- at least , not for a long time ; then he must not stay to tea . He would struggle with himself all the way down the poplar hill -- not without a comforting sense of the romance of the struggle -- but it always ended the same way . He turned in under the willows and clinked musically into Mattie 's yard . At least , the rattle of the tin-wagon sounded musically to Mattie . Meanwhile , Selena watched from her window and raged . Amberley people shrugged their shoulders when gossip noised the matter abroad . But , being good-humoured in the main , they forebore to do more than say that Mattie Adams was free to make a goose of herself if it pleased her , and that Jed Crane was n't such a fool as he looked . The Adams farm was one of the best in Amberley , and it had not grown any poorer under Mattie 's management . `` If Jed walks in there and hangs up his hat he 'll have done well for himself after all . '' This was Selena 's view of it also , barring the good nature . She was furious at the whole affair , and she did her best to make Mattie 's life a burden to her with slurs and thrusts . But they all misjudged Jed . He had no intention of `` walking in and hanging up his hat '' -- or trying to .
Romantic as he was , it never occurred to him XXXXX Mattie might be as romantic as himself .
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