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bit of
attention. So they supposed, of course, that he was a hopeless old
bachelor and wouldn’t ever marry. He was bound up in his stars, even
then, and was already beginning to be famous, because of a comet he’d
discovered. He was a professor in our college here, where his father
had been president. His father had just died a few months before, and
Nurse said maybe that was one reason why Father got caught in the
matrimonial net like that. (Those are her words, not mine. The
idea of calling my mother a net! But Nurse never did half appreciate
Mother.) But Father just worshipped his father, and they were always
together–Grandma being sick so much; and so when he died my father
was nearly beside himself, and that’s one reason they were so anxious
he should go to that meeting in Boston. They thought it might take his
mind off himself, Nurse said. But they never thought of its putting
his mind on a wife!

So far as his doing it right up quick like that was concerned, Nurse
said that wasn’t so surpris