`` Well , lots o ' people do . But if he is n't mad he 'll be sorry , and that 'll be even worse , for a Presbyterian I 'm bound to be . But I expect it will make things unpleasant . '' `` You need n't tell him anything about it , '' advised Felicity . `` Just keep quiet and go to the Methodist church until you get big , and then you can go where you please . '' `` No , that would n't be honest , '' said Peter sturdily . `` My Aunt Jane always said it was best to be open and above board in everything , and especially in religion . So I 'll tell father right out , but I 'll wait a few weeks so as not to spoil things for ma too soon if he acts up . '' Peter was not the only one who had secret cares . Sara Ray was beginning to feel worried over her looks . I heard her and Cecily talking over their troubles one evening while I was weeding the onion bed and they were behind the hedge knitting lace . I did not mean to eavesdrop . I supposed they knew I was there until Cecily overwhelmed me with indignation later on . `` I 'm so afraid , Cecily , that I 'm going to be homely all my life , '' said poor Sara with a tremble in her voice . `` You can stand being ugly when you are young if you have any hope of being better looking when you grow up . But I 'm getting worse . Aunt Mary says I 'm going to be the very image of Aunt Matilda . And Aunt Matilda is as homely as she can be . It is n't '' -- and poor Sara sighed -- `` a very cheerful prospect . If I am ugly nobody will ever want to marry me , and , '' concluded Sara candidly , `` I do n't want to be an old maid . ''
`` But plenty of girls get married who are n't a bit pretty , '' comforted XXXXX .
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