Now what is the next trouble ? '' `` I hoped you would forget to ask . '' `` But how can I help you if I do n't know them ? Come , let us have No. 3 . '' `` It is very wrong , I suppose , but I do sometimes wish I had not quite so many aunts . They are all very good to me , and I want to please them ; but they are so different , I feel sort of pulled to pieces among them , '' said Rose , trying to express the emotions of a stray chicken with six hens all clucking over it at once . Uncle Alec threw back his head and laughed like a boy , for he could entirely understand how the good ladies had each put in her oar and tried to paddle her own way , to the great disturbance of the waters and the entire bewilderment of poor Rose . `` I intend to try a course of uncles now , and see how that suits your constitution . I 'm going to have you all to myself , and no one is to give a word of advice unless I ask it . There is no other way to keep order aboard , and I am captain of this little craft , for a time at least . What comes next ? '' But Rose stuck there , and grew so red , her uncle guessed what that trouble was . `` I do n't think I can tell this one . It would n't be polite , and I feel pretty sure that it is n't going to be a trouble any more . '' As she blushed and stammered over these words , Dr. Alec turned his eyes away to the distant sea , and said so seriously , so tenderly , that she felt every word and long remembered them , `` My child , I do n't expect you to love and trust me all at once , but I do want you to believe that I shall give my whole heart to this new duty ; and if I make mistakes , as I probably shall , no one will grieve over them more bitterly than I . It is my fault that I am a stranger to you , when I want to be your best friend . That is one of my mistakes , and I never repented it more deeply than I do now . Your father and I had a trouble once , and I thought I could never forgive him ; so I kept away for years . Thank God , we made it all up the last time I saw him , and he told me then , that if he was forced to leave her he should bequeath his little girl to me as a token of his love . I ca n't fill his place , but I shall try to be a father to her ; and if she learns to love me half as well as she did the good one she has lost , I shall be a proud and happy man .
Will she believe this and XXXXX ? ''
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