Only have to wait ten
years--they'd all come up after you. But Marian says she wants some
neighbours--she doesn't want to be a pioneer. She says that if she's
got to be the first settler she had better go out to Minnesota. I
guess we'll move up little by little; when we get tired of one street
we'll go higher. So you see we'll always have a new house; it's a
great advantage to have a new house; you get all the latest
improvements. They invent everything all over again about every five
years, and it's a great thing to keep up with the new things. I
always try and keep up with the new things of every kind. Don't you
think that's a good motto for a young couple--to keep 'going higher'?
That's the name of that piece of poetry--what do they call it?--
Excelsior!"
Catherine bestowed on her junior visitor only just enough attention
to feel that this was not the way Mr. Morris Townsend had talked the
other night, or that he was talking now to her fortunate aunt. But
suddenly his aspiring kinsman became more interesting. He seemed to
have become conscious that she was affected by his companion's
presence, and he thought it proper to explain it.
"My cousin asked me to bring him, or I shouldn't have taken the
liberty. He seemed to want very much to come; you know he's awfully
sociable. I told him I wanted to ask you first, but he said Mrs.
Penniman had invited him.
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