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The supper was to be at six o’clock, in the basement of the church, and afterward there would be a fair, with charades and an auction. Jonas Hofmann Pelipaita Alexandra had set out from home early, leaving the house to Signa and Nelse Jensen, who were to be Milwaukee Bucks Sverige married next week. Karim Benzema Drakter Signa had shyly asked to have the wedding put off until Emil came home.
Alexandra was well satisfied Mike Maignan Drakter with her brother. As they drove through the rolling French country toward the westering sun and the stalwart church, she was thinking of that time long ago when she and Emil drove back from the river valley to the still unconquered Divide. Yes, she told herself, it had been worth while; both Emil and the country had become what she had hoped. Out of her father’s children there was one who was fit to cope with the world, who had not been tied to the plow, and who had a personality apart from the soil. And that, she reflected, was what she had worked for. She felt well satisfied with her life.
When they reached the church, a score of teams were hitched in front of the basement doors that opened from the hillside upon the sanded terrace, where the boys wrestled and had jumping-matches. Amedee Chevalier, a proud father of one week, rushed out and embraced Emil. Amedee was an only son, — hence he was a very rich young man, — but he meant to have twenty children himself, like his uncle Xavier. “Oh, Emil,” he cried, hugging his old friend rapturously, “why ain’t you been up to see my boy? You come tomorrow, sure? Emil, you Nacho Fernandez Pelipaita wanna get a boy right off! It’s the greatest thing ever! No, no, n |