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Willie the Squowse

 

chapter 10

 

Now the college Lucille Smith attended was the same college, naturally, that Professor Pickering taught at. Naturally they fell in love. And naturally, when he proposed, she accepted.
      Lucille brought Richard him to meet her family. He liked the Smiths and the Smiths liked him.
      "It's time there was a professor in the family," said Mrs. Smith.

      Richard brought Lucille to meet his parents and Henrietta and Humphrey approved the instant they learned she was the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in the land.
      "She's a complete dear," said Henrietta.
      "She is that," said Humphrey.

      Lucille told Richard how wonderful she thought his parents were. Richard said, "Yes, they have something I've always admired. It came rather late in their years, but they've had it ever since - love for people, a sense of belonging to a good world, a patient and wise understanding of human weakness."
      "My parents have that too," Lucille said thoughtfully.
      "Some people have it," Richard said, "and some people haven't."


 

 

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