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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'I'll take my oath I don't!'

'O yes,' said Dick, with frigid rhetoric of pitying astonishment, 'we're engaged to be married, you see, and I naturally look after her.'

'Of course, of course! I didn't know that, and I hope ye'll excuse any little freedom of mine. But it is a very odd thing; I was talking to your father very intimate about family matters, only last Friday in the world, and who should come in but keeper Day, and we all then fell a-talking o' family matters; but neither one o' them said a mortal word about it; known me too so many years, and I at your father's own wedding. Tisn't what I should have expected from a old naibour.'

'Well, to tell the truth, we hadn't told father of the engagement at that time; in fact, 'twasn't settled.'

'Ah! the business was done Sunday.

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