This effusion was received with wild applause, and Mr. Jordano sat down very happy. Tom, his eyes dancing, replied briefly, making us all laugh. Then Kitty spoke a few tremulous words that made us all cry, herself included. Then she floated up the stairs, a white cloud (throwing back her bouquet, which dear Miss Croly caught!) and floated down a gray one, touched with morning rose; and then--then the Duke of Lee took his bride away, while we all waved our handkerchiefs and cried and laughed and showered blessings after them. And by and by he brought her back to live in blessed Cyrus, which really is the only place to live in, "and no lady in the City could with her compare!" [Illustration: ----then the Duke of Lee took his bride away.] [Music: "Marry oo, diddy glu, Diddy glu, glu, glu: Diddy oo, oo, oo, Diddy goo, goo, goo! Marry oo, diddy goo, Diddy goo, goo, goo! Marry oo, diddy goo, diddy goo!" ] THE END Transcriber Notes: Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe". Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is. The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate. Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted. Throughout this book, the word "notebook" was written with a hyphen or without a hyphen, with about the same number for both variations. No changes were made On page 27, "leath" was replaced with "leather". ("leath" looks like a scanning error). On page 44, a closing quotation mark was placed after "I'll go and live there!" On page 104, the single closing quotation mark after "he's a good one." was replaced with a double quotation mark. On page 104, a closing quotation mark was placed after "all about it." On page 107, "obleeged" was replaced with "obliged". On page 172, the single closing quotation mark after "Get out, Billy!" was rep;aced with a double quotation mark. On page 195, "Kity" was replaced with "Kitty". On page 198, the last two lines were transposed to read "too, and Tupham. Some, no doubt, came from curiosity, idle or worse, to see the great house open". On page 212, a double quotation mark was added before "People do!". On page 212, a period was added about "Kitty". On page 253, "aftermoons" was replaced with "afternoons". On page 283, "The idea! is this" was replaced with "The idea! Is this".