Never was a man so lucky! You and me
and Mamie; it's a triple cord, Loudon. If either of
you were to die! And she likes you so much, and thinks
you so accomplished and distingue-looking, and was just
as set as I was to have you for best man. 'Mr.
Loudon,' she calls you; seems to me so friendly! And
she sat up till three in the morning fixing up a
costume for the marriage; it did me good to see her,
Loudon, and to see that needle going, going, and to say
'All this hurry, Jim, is just to marry you!' I couldn't
believe it; it was so like some blame' fairy story. To
think of those old tin-type times about turned my head;
I was so unrefined then, and so illiterate, and so
lonesome; and here I am in clover, and I'm blamed if I
can see what I've done to deserve it."
So he poured forth with innocent volubility the fulness
of his heart; and I, from these irregular
communications, must pick out, here a little and there
a little, the particulars of his new plan. They were
to be married, sure enough, that day; the wedding
breakfast was to be at Frank's; the evening to be
passed in a visit of God-speed aboard the NORAH
CREINA; and then we were to part, Jim and I--he to his
married life, I on my sea-enterprise.
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