I was so amazed that it is useless to try to express my amazement . `` Aunt -- Philippa , '' I gasped . `` I thought -- I thought -- '' `` You thought I was a hard old customer , and so I am , '' said Aunt Philippa . `` But I do n't take my opinions from your father nor anybody else . It did n't prejudice me any against your young man that your father did n't like him . I knew your father of old . I have some other friends in Montreal and I writ to them and asked them what he was like . From what they said I judged he was decent enough as men go . You 're too young to be married , but if you let him go off to South Africa he 'll slip through your fingers for sure , and I s ` pose you 're like some of the rest of us -- nobody 'll do you but the one . So tell him to come here and be married . '' `` I do n't see how I can , '' I gasped . `` I ca n't get ready to be married in three weeks . I ca n't -- '' `` I should think you have enough clothes in that trunk to do you for a spell , '' said Aunt Philippa sarcastically . `` You 've more than my mother ever had in all her life . We 'll get you a wedding dress of some kind . You can get it made in Charlottetown , if country dressmakers are n't good enough for you , and I 'll bake you a wedding cake that 'll taste as good as anything you could get in Montreal , even if it wo n't look so stylish . '' `` What will Father say ? '' I questioned . `` Lots o ' things , '' conceded Aunt Philippa grimly . `` But I do n't see as it matters when neither you nor me 'll be there to have our feelings hurt .
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