Mr. Kirby declared that Worth must come and live with them . `` We have no daughter , '' he said . `` You must come to us in the place of one , Worth . '' Mrs. Kirby seconded this with a cordiality that won Worth 's affection at once . The girl felt almost bewildered by her happiness . `` I feel as if I were in a dream , '' she said to Millicent as they walked to their boarding-house . `` It 's really all too wonderful to grasp at once . You do n't know , Millie , how lonely I 've felt often under all my nonsense and fun . Aunt Delia was kind to me , but she was really no relation , she had a large family of her own , and I have always felt that she looked upon me as a rather inconvenient duty . But now I 'm so happy ! '' `` I 'm so glad for you , Worth , '' said Millicent warmly , `` although your gain will certainly be my loss , for I shall miss my roommate terribly when she goes to live at Beechwood . Has n't it all turned out strangely ? If you had never gone to Beechwood in my place , this would never have happened . '' `` Say rather that if we had n't gone to confess our fault , it would never have happened , '' said Worth gently . `` I 'm very , very glad that I have found Uncle George and such a loving welcome to his home . But I 'm gladder still that I 've got my self-respect back . I feel that I can look Worth Gordon in the face again . '' `` I 've learned a wholesome lesson , too , '' admitted Millicent . The Blue North Room `` This , '' said Sara , laying Aunt Josephina 's letter down on the kitchen table with such energy that in anybody but Sara it must have been said she threw it down , `` this is positively the last straw ! I have endured all the rest .
I have given up my chance of a musical education , when Aunt Nan offered it , that I might stay home and help Willard pay the mortgage off -- if it does n't pay us off first -- and I have , which was much harder , accepted the fact XXXXX we ca n't possibly afford to send Ray to the Valley Academy , even if I wore the same hat and coat for four winters .
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