asked Felicity severely . `` A nice opinion he 'd have of our manners ! '' `` Well , it 's the only chance we 'll have to chivaree them , '' grumbled Dan . `` Aunt Olivia would n't mind . SHE can take a joke . '' `` Ma would kill you if you did such a thing , '' warned Felicity . `` Dr. Seton lives in Halifax and they NEVER chivaree people there . He would think it very vulgar . '' `` Then he should have stayed in Halifax and got married there , '' retorted Dan , sulkily . We were very curious to see our uncle-elect . When he came and Uncle Alec took him into the parlour , we were all crowded into the dark corner behind the stairs to peep at him . Then we fled to the moonlight world outside and discussed him at the dairy . `` He 's bald , '' said Cecily disappointedly . `` And RATHER short and stout , '' said Felicity . `` He 's forty , if he 's a day , '' said Dan . `` Never you mind , '' cried the Story Girl loyally , `` Aunt Olivia loves him with all her heart . '' `` And more than that , he 's got lots of money , '' added Felicity . `` Well , he may be all right , '' said Peter , `` but it 's my opinion that your Aunt Olivia could have done just as well on the Island . '' `` YOUR opinion does n't matter very much to our family , '' said Felicity crushingly . But when we made the acquaintance of Dr. Seton next morning we liked him enormously , and voted him a jolly good fellow .
Even Peter remarked aside to me that he guessed Miss XXXXX had n't made much of a mistake after all , though it was plain he thought she was running a risk in not sticking to the Island .
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