The wedding is to be next month . Miss Sara is beside herself with delight . The excitement has been really terrible , and the way people have talked and wondered and exclaimed has almost worn my patience clean out . I 've snubbed more persons in the last ten days than I ever did in all my life before . Nothing of this worries Doctor John or Marcella . They are too happy to care for gossip or outside curiosity . The Barrys are not coming to the wedding , I understand . They refuse to forgive Marcella or countenance her folly , as they call it , in any way . Folly ! When I see those two together and realize what they mean to each other I have some humble , reverent idea of what true wisdom is . The End of the Young Family Feud A week before Christmas , Aunt Jean wrote to Elizabeth , inviting her and Alberta and me to eat our Christmas dinner at Monkshead . We accepted with delight . Aunt Jean and Uncle Norman were delightful people , and we knew we should have a jolly time at their house . Besides , we wanted to see Monkshead , where Father had lived in his boyhood , and the old Young homestead where he had been born and brought up and where Uncle William still lived . Father never said much about it , but we knew he loved it very dearly , and we had always greatly desired to get at least a glimpse of what Alberta liked to call `` our ancestral halls . '' Since Monkshead was only sixty miles away , and Uncle William lived there as aforesaid , it may be pertinently asked what there was to prevent us from visiting it and the homestead as often as we wished . We answer promptly : the family feud . Father and Uncle William were on bad terms , or rather on no terms at all , and had been ever since we could remember . After Grandfather Young 's death there had been a wretched quarrel over the property . Father always said that he had been as much to blame as Uncle William , but Great-aunt Emily told us that Uncle William had been by far the most to blame , and that he had behaved scandalously to Father .
Moreover , she said that Father had gone to him when cooling-down time came , apologized for what he had said , and XXXXX Uncle William to be friends again ; and that William , simply turned his back on Father and walked into the house without saying a word , but , as Great-aunt Emily said , with the Young temper sticking out of every kink and curve of his figure .
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