`` I think Dick will make a splendid husband , '' I said . `` But Aunt Tommy , you must n't be too hard on Jacky . He only wanted to help things along , and it was I who put him up it in the first place . '' `` You have atoned by going and confessing , '' said Aunt Tommy with a hug , `` Jacky had no business to put that off on you . I 'll forgive him , of course , but I 'll punish him by not letting him know that I will for a little while . Then I 'll ask him to be a page at my wedding . '' Well , the wedding came off last week . It was a perfectly gorgeous affair . Aunt Tommy 's dress was a dream -- and so was mine , all pink silk and chiffon and carnations . Jacky made a magnificent page too , in a suit of white velvet . The wedding cake was four stories high , and Dick looked perfectly handsome . He kissed me too , right after he kissed Aunt Tommy . So everything turned out all right , and I believe Dick would never have dared to speak up if we had n't helped things along . But Jacky and I have decided that we will never meddle in an affair of the kind again . A Millionaire 's Proposal Thrush Hill , Oct. 5 , 18 -- . It is all settled at last , and in another week I shall have left Thrush Hill . I am a little bit sorry and a great bit glad . I am going to Montreal to spend the winter with Alicia . Alicia -- it used to be plain Alice when she lived at Thrush Hill and made her own dresses and trimmed her own hats -- is my half-sister . She is eight years older than I am .
We are both orphans , and Aunt Elizabeth brought us up here at Thrush Hill , the most delightful old country place XXXXX the world , half smothered in big willows and poplars , every one of which I have climbed in the early tomboy days of gingham pinafores and sun-bonnets .
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