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him of late must not hurry him into any premature words. Yet when he got home and told his mother the good news, and ate his supper, while she sat by almost crying for joy, and wanting him to eat twice as much as usual because of this good-luck, he could not help preparing her gently for the coming change, by talking of the old house being too small for them all to go on living in it always.
