asked Sara Ray . The Story Girl looked rather puzzled . It was so hard to imagine Sara Ray as having any kind of future . Yet Sara was plainly anxious to have her fortune told and must be gratified . `` You 'll be married , '' said the Story Girl recklessly , `` and you 'll live to be nearly a hundred years old , and go to dozens of funerals and have a great many sick spells . You will learn not to cry after you are seventy ; but your husband will never go to church . '' `` I 'm glad you warned me , '' said Sara Ray solemnly , `` because now I know I 'll make him promise before I marry him that he will go . '' `` He wo n't keep the promise , '' said the Story Girl , shaking her head . `` But it is getting cold and Cecily is coughing . Let us go in . '' `` You have n't told my fortune , '' protested Cecily disappointedly . The Story Girl looked very tenderly at Cecily -- at the smooth little brown head , at the soft , shining eyes , at the cheeks that were often over-rosy after slight exertion , at the little sunburned hands that were always busy doing faithful work or quiet kindnesses . A very strange look came over the Story Girl 's face ; her eyes grew sad and far-reaching , as if of a verity they pierced beyond the mists of hidden years . `` I could n't tell any fortune half good enough for you , dearest , '' she said , slipping her arm round Cecily . `` You deserve everything good and lovely . But you know I 've only been in fun -- of course I do n't know anything about what 's going to happen to us . '' `` Perhaps you know more than you think for , '' said Sara Ray , who seemed much pleased with her fortune and anxious to believe it , despite the husband who would n't go to church . `` But I 'd like to be told my fortune , even in fun , '' persisted Cecily . `` Everybody you meet will love you as long as you live . '' said the Story Girl .
`` There that 's the very nicest fortune I can tell you , and it will come true whether the others do or not , and now we must go XXXXX . ''
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