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"WOULD it had been the man of our wish! " / Sighs her mother. To whom with vehemence she / In the wedding-dress-the wife to be- / "Then why were you so mollyish / As not to insist on him for me! " / The mother, amazed: "Why, dearest one, / Because you pleaded for this or none!"
"But Father and you should have stood out strong! / Since then, to my cost, I have lived to find / That you were right and that I was wrong; / This man is a dolt to the one declined. / Ah! -here he comes with his button-hole rose. / Good God-I must marry him I suppose! "