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This, of course, ended the matter. No one living or dead had ever
been found with nerve enough to withstand Felicia Grayson when she
had once made up her mind.
And then, again, there was no time to lose in unnecessary
discussions. Were not Ruth and her father picnicking in a hired
villa, with half their household goods in a box-car at
Morfordsburg?--and was not Jack still living in his two rooms at
Mrs. Hicks's? The only change suggested by the lovers was in the
date of the wedding, Miss Felicia having insisted that it should
not take place until November, "FOUR WHOLE WEEKS AWAY." But the
old lady would not budge. Four weeks at least, she insisted, would
be required for the purchase and making of the wedding clothes,
which, with four more for the honeymoon (at this both Jack and
Ruth shouted with laughter, they having determined on a honeymoon
the like of which had never been seen since Adam and Eve went to
housekeeping in the Garden). These eight weeks, continued the
practical old lady, would be required to provide a suitable home
for them both; now an absolute necessity, seeing that Mr.
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