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"Yes, I hope it will rain," Herbert said to himself as he went tearing along the road towards home.
Just why he wished it to rain he did not know, except to spite somebody-his father, perhaps, who was so unreasonably bitter against the Greys, "the very nicest people in town, while Louie was certainly the prettiest girl, and would cast in the shade anyone, whether from Springfield or Worcester or Boston," and he wanted Fred Lansing to see her. It was a decided shame that she was not coming. Yes, he hoped it would rain so hard nobody would come.