I had made up my own mind for once and it was real easy , too . It 's very delightful to feel so sure , and know it 's your own sureness and not somebody else 's . '' `` Do you suppose you 'll be able to keep it up ? '' `` Making up my mind , you mean ? I do n't know , but Jo has given me a splendid rule . He says , when I 'm perplexed , just to do what I would wish I had done when I shall be eighty . Anyhow , Jo can make up his mind quickly enough , and it would be uncomfortable to have too much mind in the same house . '' `` What will your father and mother say ? '' `` Father wo n't say much . He thinks everything I do right . But mother WILL talk . Oh , her tongue will be as Byrney as her nose . But in the end it will be all right . '' `` You 'll have to give up a good many things you 've always had , when you marry Mr. Blake , Phil . '' `` But I 'll have HIM . I wo n't miss the other things . We 're to be married a year from next June . Jo graduates from St. Columbia this spring , you know . Then he 's going to take a little mission church down on Patterson Street in the slums . Fancy me in the slums !
But I 'd go there or XXXXX Greenland 's icy mountains with him . ''
Blake Father Jo Phil Street for from in sureness to