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. “Then we’ll take it now,” his aunt told the clerk, and after careful testing and distribution of the various bundles, they came back into the street. And there his Aunt Hannah made a proposal which astounded Rufus with gratitude. She turned to him and said, “And now if you’d like it, I’d like to give you a cap.”
He was tongue-tied; he felt himself blush. His aunt could not quite see the blush but his silence disconcerted her, for she had believed that this would make him really happy. Annoyed with herself, she nevertheless could not help feeling a little hurt.
“Or is there something else you’d rather have?” she asked, her voice a little too gentle.
He felt a great dilation in his chest. “Oh, no!” he exclaimed with passion. “Oh, no!”
“Very well then, let’s see what we can do about it,” she said, more than reassured
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