Ellen went with us. You needn't suppose it was much
fun for me! Girls that think running away to be married is
nothing but a lark, do not have to deceive a sister like you, nor
have a father such as mine to reckon with afterwards."
"You thought of all that before, didn't you, child?"
"Nobody that hasn't already run away to be married once or twice
could tell how it was going to feel! Never did I pass so unhappy
a day! If Mark was not everything that is kind and gentle, he
would have tipped me out of the sleigh into a snowbank and left
me by the roadside to freeze. I might have been murdered instead
of only married, by the way I behaved; but Mark and Ellen
understood. Then, the very next day, Mark's father sent him up to
Bridgton on business, and he had to go to Allentown first to
return a friend's horse, so he couldn't break the news to father
at once, as he intended."
"Does a New Hampshire marriage hold good in Maine?" asked
Waitstill, still intent on the bare facts at the bottom of the
romance.
"Well, of course," stammered Patty, some-what confused, "Maine
has her own way of doing things, and wouldn't be likely to fancy
New Hampshire's. But nothing can make it wicked or anything but
according to law.
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