Your rooms are all ready for you here, and I want you
both to come, just as soon as you can. It will be the best for you,
too, Alice, as you will escape the very bad winter that Boston always
has. I was delighted to hear the news, and I do hope and pray it will
be a boy,--then we shall have a Quincy Adams Sawyer, Junior.
"I wish Maude could come with you. I could introduce her to society
here, and, I have found--don't think me conceited--that there is
nothing that improves an English gentleman so much as having an
American wife. If some of your nice young American gentlemen would
marry some English girls and transplant them to American soil, I
think the English-speaking race would benefit thereby.
"Sir Stuart is well, and so is
"Your loving aunt,
"ELLA."
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"The same Aunt Ella as of old," said Quincy, "always full of new
ideas and quaint suggestions. It would be a good thing for you to go,
I think, Alice, and I should really relish the change myself. What do
you say, a steamer sails next week from here; shall we go?"
"Why, Quincy, it is rather sudden, but I should be glad to see Aunt
Ella and Linda again, and I really see no reason why we should not
go."
"Well, we will call that settled, then. And Maude, do you think she
would join us?"
"Not unless you take Mr. Merry with you," replied Alice with a good
natured laugh.
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