Well, suppose he said, "Sally if I can hit on some means
of making a comfortable home here by the Nile,--that's to say, the
Thames, you know,--will you come and keep it in order for me, and
live with me for all the rest of our lives?' Now what do you think
the girl-mummy would have answered:'"
Waymark laughed, but O'Gree had become solemn.
"She didn't answer at once, and there was something very queer in
her face. All at once she said, 'What has Mr. Waymark told you about
me?' 'Why, just nothing at all,' I said, rather puzzled. 'And do you
know,' she asked then, without looking at me, 'what sort of a girl I
am?' Well, all at once there came something into my head that I'd
never thought of before, and I was staggered for a moment; I
couldn't say anything. But I got over it. 'I don't want to know
anything,' I said. 'All I know is, that I like you better than I
ever shall any one else, and I want you to promise to be my wife,
some day.' 'Then you must let me tell you all my story first,' she
said. 'I won't answer till you know everything.' And so she told me
what it seems you know. Well, if I thought much of her before, I
thought a thousand times as much after that! And do you know what? I
believe it was on my account that she want and took that place in
the shop.
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