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quite unimportant, yet we both enjoyed ^[[insertion]] it [[/insertion]], it seems for we were so much occupied that when next we looked back we were quite a ways from the farm.  To our dismay and astonishment no one was in sight but the groom, but we came to the conclusion the boys had dropped behind to let us injoy a tête à tête so thought nothing of it.
We again forgot the world and Alfred and Arthur in a conversation about general things, and when we next looked back we very quite taken aback by the sight of the empty road all but the groom. We stopped and asked him where
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the boys were, he said they were going by the beaches, and had turned back just after they left the farm and told him to go on with us.  We were both furious, of course we considered it practical joke.  They had left us to be alone and we did not know how to get to them.  I said I would finish Alfred up as soon as we got home, and Willie had made up his mind to give Arthur a black eye[[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]].
But this did not prevent us having a very pleasant ride home alone.  For we never met the boys until after we had been home some time.  It was all