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"Yes, Hobart," added his wife, gently, "you did your whole duty,
and I do not forget what it cost you."



QUEEN OF SPADES

"Mother," remarked Farmer Banning, discontentedly, "Susie is
making a long visit."
"She is coming home next week," said his cheery wife. She had
drawn her low chair close to the air-tight stove, for a late March
snowstorm was raging without.
"It seems to me that I miss her more and more."
"Well, I'm not jealous."
"Oh, come, wife, you needn't be. The idea! But I'd be jealous if
our little girl was sorter weaned away from us by this visit in
town."
"Now, see here, father, you beat all the men I ever heard of in
scolding about farmers borrowing, and here you are borrowing
trouble."
"Well, I hope I won't have to pay soon. But I've been thinking
that the old farmhouse may look small and appear lonely after her
gay winter. When she is away, it's too big for me, and a suspicion
lonely for us both. I've seen that you've missed her more than I
have."
"I guess you're right. Well, she's coming home, as I said, and we
must make home seem home to her.


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