"Bless your heart, when I get to feeling down-hearted I'll send for you. I'll make a bargain with your mother this very night."
"I think sometimes you might come and see us where we are," returned Jack, "though, of course, I shall always like to go to see you," she added hastily.
"It's a bargain," he said. "When you can't come to me then I will go to you, whenever I feel that I am in the way at home."
"Oh, but you were never in the way," Jack hastened to assure him, then she added mirthfully, "except that first time I saw you when I ran into you."
The recollection of this put Mr. Pinckney into a happier humor, and the two went up to the house to tell their news to the family.
And so when, a week later, they all turned away from the beautiful land where they had enjoyed so many good times, to set out upon the journey home, it was not only to school and their native town that they looked forward, but to the Christmas wedding of their dear and lovely friend Miss Dolores, when for the first time each of the four Corners would perform the office of bridesmaid.
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Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 222, "Joe" changed to "Jo" twice (Jo asked Nan that) (and Jo were very fond of)