Growing Up: A Story of the Girlhood of Judith MackenzieConklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.
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Growing Up: A Story of the Girlhood of Judith Mackenzie
Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.
Christian life -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Girls -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction
“He is going for more young folks,” said Aunt Affy, “and men about
his own age. I’m willing, but it’s terrible hard.”
Judith turned to the fire again.
“Come, sit down and let’s talk it over,” said Uncle Cephas, in a
pacified tone; “I won’t pull the wrong way if it’s best.”
An hour afterward Aunt Affy called her husband out into the kitchen.
“Cephas,” she whispered, “don’t you _know_ he wants to ask Judith
what she thinks?”
“She isn’t a member of the session,” replied Uncle Cephas, with
dignity.
“She is a member of _his_ session,” said wise Aunt Affy.
After this, what more would you know of Judith’s growing up?
She was married on her twentieth birthday, and her Cousin Don was at
the wedding. She was married in the Bensalem church; Richard King
performed the ceremony. Roger asked if she would have dear old Dr.
Kent, but in memory of that afternoon at Meadow Centre, she chose
Richard King.
“Don, it wouldn’t have been perfect without you,” she whispered when
her Cousin Don kissed her. The next year Judith finished her book of
children’s stories which she wished to take to Heaven to show her
mother.
Marion was the maiden aunt at the Dunellen parsonage. Don Mackenzie
was everybody’s good friend.
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