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Before Kate awakened the following

the horses, cattle, and chickens, doing the

like the proverbial beaver By the time breakfast was ready, he

had convinced himself that he was a very exemplary man, while he

expected Kate to be convinced also He stood ready and willing to

forgive her for every mean deceit and secret sin he ever had

committed, or had it in his heart to commit in the future All

the world was rosy with his of hope

straight toward a wonderful achievee Holt, then to his wife and children,

then to the old aunt he really cared ht have so such prosperity and activity to the village that all Walden

would forget every bad thing it had ever thought or known of hiuessed all this

when she saw the pails full of"Hail the Conquering Hero Comes," as he turned the cows

into the pasture; but she had not slept well Most of the night

she had lain staring at the ceiling, her brain busy with

calculations, computations, most of all with personal values

She dared not be a party to anything that would lose Aunt Ollie

her land; that was settled; but if she went into the venture

herself, if she kept the deeds in Aunt Ollie's name, the bank

account in hers, drew all the checks, kept the books, would it be