she stammered . `` Yes , if there is anything to forgive . And for my own part , I am glad you are not what I have always thought you were . If I had come here and found you what I expected , living in such a home as I expected , I never could have told you or even thought of telling you what you have come to mean to me in these lonely years during which your letters have been the things most eagerly looked forward to . I should have come this evening and spent an hour or so with you , and then have gone away on the train tomorrow morning , and that would have been all . `` But I find instead just a dreamy romantic little girl , much like my sisters at home , except that she is a great deal cleverer . And as a result I mean to stay a week at Plainfield and come to see you every day , if you will let me . And on my way back to the Bar N I mean to stop off at Plainfield again for another week , and then I shall tell you something more -- something it would be a little too bold to say now , perhaps , although I could say it just as well and truly . All this if I may . May I , Sidney ? '' He bent forward and looked earnestly into her face . Sidney felt a new , curious , inexplicable thrill at her heart . `` Oh , yes . -- I suppose so , '' she said shyly . `` Now , take me up to the house and introduce me to your Aunt Jane , '' said John Lincoln in satisfied tone . An Adventure on Island Rock `` Who was the man I saw talking to you in the hayfield ? '' asked Aunt Kate , as Uncle Richard came to dinner . `` Bob Marks , '' said Uncle Richard briefly . `` I 've sold Laddie to him . '' Ernest Hughes , the twelve-year-old orphan boy whom Uncle `` boarded and kept '' for the chores he did , suddenly stopped eating .
`` Oh , Mr. Lawson , you 're not going XXXXX sell Laddie ? ''
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