Mayfield, "it is all very hasty. It
might look better to wait."
"That's what I wanted to say," Lou replied. "I always thought that folks
had to make up some new clothes when they were married--or befo'. But
here I am with hardly any clothes at all."
"You can make clothes afterward just as well as before," said Tom. "I
feel that as long as I'm not married I belong to the Governor--I mean my
father," he explained to Lou; "but as soon as I am married I'll be my
own--well, I might say my own boss." Archly Lou looked at him and he
added: "Unless you are to be my boss. And you can, I tell you that."
"I have devised a charming plan," said Mrs. Mayfield. "We'll all be
married up there on the top of the hill among the vines. Won't that be
romantic? No church, no hot house flowers, but blossoms still alive,
with humming birds sipping their honey. We'll make of it a marriage May
day, to be lived over in after years; and we'll have a picture painted
of the scene, nature's altar; and in the twilight of many a summer's day
we'll muse over it, growing old.
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