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Kate was so delighted she could have shouted Instead she went

with all speed to the stationery counter and bought an envelope to

fit the contract, which she signed, and writing a hasty note of

thanks she an her

mother's purchases This took so much time that her father ca that she hurry,

so in feverish haste she bought anted and followed to

the buggy On the road hoan to study her father; she

could see that he ell pleased over so but she had no

idea what could have happened; she had expected anything froy whip, so she was surprised, but so happy

over having secured such a good school, at higher wages than Nancy

Ellen's, that she spentas to when she would go to Walden, where she would stay,

how she would teach, and Oh, bliss unspeakable, what she would do

with so much money; for two atha, and by getting the very cheapest board

she could endure, after that she would have over three fourths of

her money to spend each ed with her side of the closet and her end of the

bureau, when she had her first glimpse of home; even preoccupied

as she was, she saw a difference Several loose pickets in the