` Au revoir , '' ` Your loving chum , SARA RAY . ' '' `` That poor child , '' said the Story Girl . `` Well , all I hope is that strangers wo n't take her for one of the family , '' remarked Felicity in a disgusted tone . Aunt Olivia was married at five o'clock in the orchard under the late apple tree . It was a pretty scene . The air was full of the perfume of apple bloom , and the bees blundered foolishly and delightfully from one blossom to another , half drunken with perfume . The old orchard was full of smiling guests in wedding garments . Aunt Olivia was most beautiful amid the frost of her bridal veil , and the Story Girl , in an unusually long white dress , with her brown curls clubbed up behind , looked so tall and grown-up that we hardly recognized her . After the ceremony -- during which Sara Ray cried all the time -- there was a royal wedding supper , and Sara Ray was permitted to eat her share of the feast with us . `` I 'm glad I was stung by the wasps after all , '' she said delightedly . `` If I had n't been ma would never have let me eat with you . She just got tired explaining to people what was the matter with my face , and so she was glad to get rid of me . I know I look awful , but , oh , was n't the bride a dream ? '' We missed the Story Girl , who , of course , had to have her supper at the bridal table ; but we were a hilarious little crew and the girls had nobly kept their promise to save tid-bits for us . By the time the last table was cleared away Aunt Olivia and our new uncle were ready to go . There was an orgy of tears and leavetakings , and then they drove away into the odorous moonlight night . Dan and Peter pursued them down the lane with a fiendish din of bells and pans , much to Felicity 's wrath . But Aunt Olivia and Uncle Robert took it in good part and waved their hands back to us with peals of laughter . `` They 're just that pleased with themselves that they would n't mind if there was an earthquake , '' said Felix , grinning . `` It 's been splendid and exciting , and everything went off well , '' sighed Cecily , `` but , oh dear , it 's going to be so queer and lonesome without Aunt Olivia .
I just believe I 'll cry all XXXXX . ''
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