Take time to think it over . '' `` Thank you , '' said Worth . She went back to the Grange as one in a dream and shut herself up in the white southeast room to think . She knew that she wanted to accept this unexpected offer of Uncle Paul 's . Worth 's loyal tongue had never betrayed , even to the loving aunts , any discontent in the prairie farm life that had always been hers . But it had been a hard life for the girl , narrow and poverty-bounded . She longed to put forth her hand and take this other life which opened so temptingly before her . She knew , too , that her mother , ambitious for her child , would not be likely to interpose any objections . She had only to go to Uncle Paul and all that she longed for would be given her , together with the faithful , protecting fatherly love and care that in all its strength and sweetness had never been hers . She must decide for herself . Not even of Aunt Charlotte or Aunt Ellen could she ask advice . She knew they would entreat her to accept , and she needed no such incentive to her own wishes . Far on into the night Worth sat at the white-curtained dormer window , looking at the stars over the apple trees , and fighting her battle between inclination and duty . It was a hard and stubbornly contested battle , but with that square chin and those unfaltering grey eyes it could end in only one way . Next day Worth went down to Greenwood . `` Well , what is it to be ? '' said Uncle Paul without preface , as he met her in the garden . `` I can not come , Uncle Paul , '' said Worth steadily . `` I can not give up my mother . '' `` I do n't ask you to give her up , '' he said gruffly .
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