"
"Haven't I? I thought I had said it all."
"But you haven't said it for yourself!"
"You say what you want,--and I'll repeat it quite as well as you
did."
"I can't do that. Say it yourself."
"I will be your true husband for the rest of the journey;--by which
I mean it to be understood that I take you into partnership on
equal terms, but that I am to be allowed to manage the business
just as I please."
"Yes;--that you shall," she said, quite in earnest.
"Only as you are practical and I am vague, I don't doubt that
everything will fall into your hands before five years are over,
and that I shall have to be told whether I can afford to buy a new
book, and when I am to ask all the gentry to dinner."
"Now you are laughing at me because I shall know so little about
anything."
"Come, dear; let us get over the stile and go on for another field,
or we shall never get round the park." Then she jumped over after
him, just touching his hand. "I was not laughing at you at all. I
don't in the least doubt that in a very little time you will know
everything about everything."
"I am so much afraid."
"You needn't be. I know you well enough for that. But suppose I had
taken such a one as that young woman who was here with my poor
cousin. Oh, heavens!"
"Perhaps you ought to have done so.
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