Mother Carey's Chickens
"I remember."
"And Gilbert tore his trousers climbing on the gate, and father laid him upside down on your lap and I ran and got your work-bag and you mended the seat of his little trousers. And father looked and looked at the house and said, 'Bless its heart!' and said if he were rich he would buy the dear thing that afternoon and sleep in it that night; and asked you if you did n't wish you'd married the other man, and you said there never was another man, and you asked father if he thought on the whole that he was the poorest man in the world, and father said no, the very richest, and he kissed us all round, do you remember?"
"Do I remember? O Nancy, Nancy! What do you think I am made of that I could ever forget?"
"Don't cry, Muddy darling, don't! It was so beautiful, and we have so many things like that to remember."
"Yes," said Mrs. Carey, "I know it. Part of my tears are grateful ones that none of you can ever recall an unloving word between your father and mother!"
"The idea," said Nancy suddenly and briefly, "is to go and live in that darling house!"
"Nancy! What for?"
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