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She resolved to tell him that . She would be married in the simplest thing she had if he wished . Fate in the person of John Hunter himself took the settlement of the bride 's gown out of Elizabeth 's hands . Just before noon he stopped , on his way back from Colebyville , to give Susan Hornby the mail he had brought out from the post-office . Elizabeth followed him to the wagon when he went out . `` Well , I wrote mother . Can you be ready by October ? ''