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So Aunt Becky's famous last "levee" was over with all its comedy and tragedy, its farce and humour, its jealousies and triumphs; and it may be concluded that very few people went home from it as happy as they went to it. The two Sams, perhaps, who were untroubled by love or ambition and had no suspicion of the dark clouds already lowering over their lives,--Gay Penhallow--and maybe Peter, who was tearing the bowels out of his trunk. He had said to Nancy on the way home: "Nancy--Nancy, I've fallen in love--I have--I have--and it's glorious. Why did I never fall in love before?"
Nancy caught her breath as Peter whirled around a corner on two wheels.