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X. At the Sign of the Balsam Bough | Henry van Dyke | |
Under The White Birches. |
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"But how do you make that out?" I asked, in mild surprise. "What are you going to do with me?" "Oh," said she, with a fine air of independence, "I don't count you. You are not a relation, only a connection by marriage." "Well, my dear," I answered, between the meditative puffs of my pipe, "it is good to consider the advantages of our present situation. We shall soon come into the frame of mind of the Sultan of Morocco when he camped in the Vale of Rabat. The place pleased him so well that he staid until the very pegs of his tent took root and grew up into a grove of trees around his pavilion." |
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