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We had always looked forward eagerly to the promised day when father would take us down home, to the old house with the spruces behind it and the famous King orchard before it-when we might ramble in Uncle Stephens Walk, drink from the deep well with the Chinese roof over it, stand on the Pulpit Stone, and eat apples from our birthday trees.
...For my own part, I was rather sorry to see her going; and she cried over us and wished us well; but we had forgotten all about her by the time we reached the open country, driving along, one on either side of Uncle Alec, whom we loved from the moment we saw him.
...We call her the Story Girl partly because shes such a hand to tell stories-oh, I cant begin to describe it-and partly because Sara Ray, who lives at the foot of the hill, often comes up to play with us, and it is awkward to have two girls of the same name in the same crowd.
...We had never lived long enough in any one house to develop a feeling of affection for it; but here, under the roof-tree built by Great-Grandfather King ninety years ago, that feeling swept into our boyish hearts and souls like a flood of living sweetness and tenderness.
...Dan did not come down until breakfast was half over, and Aunt Janet talked to him after a fashion which made us realize that it would be well to keep, as the piquant country phrase went, from the rough side of her tongue. Less
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