one
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I knawed you d keep your word such a rare fashion day ! '' Will soon sat between the two women , while Mrs. Blanchard 's pony regulated its own pace and three tongues chattered behind it . A dozen brown paper parcels occupied the body of the little cart , for Damaris had insisted that the wedding feast should be of her providing . It was proposed that Chris and her mother should spend the day at Newtake and depart after drinking tea ; while Phoebe was to arrive in a fly at one o'clock . After breakfast Chris busied herself indoors and occupied her quick fingers in putting a dozen finishing touches ; while Mrs. Blanchard walked round the farm beside Will , viewed with outspoken approval or secret distrust those evidences of success and failure spread about her , and passed the abandoned attempt to reclaim land without a word or sign that she remembered . Will crowed like a happy child ; his mother poured advice into his unheeding ears ; and then a cart lumbered up with a great surprise in it . True to her intention Mrs. Blanchard had chosen the day of Phoebe 's arrival to send the old piano to Newtake , and now it was triumphantly trundled into the parlour , while Will protested and admired .