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Chapter 10 - (VERSO)

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outweigh the disadvantages of the concrete. But one can never reckon with real, bred-in-the-bone old-maidism.

One morning Mr. Malcolm MacPherson told us all that he was coming up that evening to make Aunt Olivia set the day. Peggy and I laughingly approved, telling him that it was high time for him to assert his authority, and he went off in high great good humor across the river field, whistling a Highland strathspey. But Aunt Olivia looked like a martyr. She had a fierce attack of housecleaning that day, and put everything in flawless order, even to the corners.


TEXT ANNOTATION

From "Aunt Olivia's Beau."

TEXT ANNOTATION

"strathspey": a graceful Scottish dance tune, slower than a reel, e.g., "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond."