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"And I join you, dearest, in both wish and promise."
"I am growing very babyish," she said presently with a wistful look up
into his face; "I can hardly bear to think of being parted from you for a
day; and I suppose you'll have to be going off again to attend to that
business affair?"
"Yes, as soon as I see that my wife is quite well enough to undertake the
journey; for I'm not going again without her."
"Oh, will you take me with you, Ned?" she cried joyfully. "How very good
in you."
"Good to myself, little woman," he said, smiling down at her; "it will
turn a tiresome business trip into a pleasure excursion. I have always
found my enjoyment doubled by the companionship of my better half."
"I call that rank heresy," she said laughing, "_you're_ the better half as
well as the bigger. I wish I were worthy of such a good husband," she
added earnestly and with a look of loving admiration. "I'm very proud of
you, my dear--so good and wise and handsome as you are!"
"Oh, hush, hush! such fulsome flattery," he returned, coloring and
laughing. "Let me see; this is Friday, so near the end of the week that I
do not care to leave home till next week.
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