And yet -- I think she WAS one of them once , but has gone or got into exile , '' said Anne musingly . `` She is certainly very different from the other women about here . You ca n't talk about eggs and butter to HER . To think I 've been imagining her a second Mrs. Rachel Lynde ! Have you ever seen Dick Moore , Gilbert ? '' `` No . I 've seen several men working about the fields of the farm , but I do n't know which was Moore . '' `` She never mentioned him . I KNOW she is n't happy . '' `` From what you tell me I suppose she was married before she was old enough to know her own mind or heart , and found out too late that she had made a mistake . It 's a common tragedy enough , Anne . `` A fine woman would have made the best of it . Mrs. Moore has evidently let it make her bitter and resentful . '' `` Do n't let us judge her till we know , '' pleaded Anne . `` I do n't believe her case is so ordinary . You will understand her fascination when you meet her , Gilbert . It is a thing quite apart from her beauty . I feel that she possesses a rich nature , into which a friend might enter as into a kingdom ; but for some reason she bars every one out and shuts all her possibilities up in herself , so that they can not develop and blossom . There , I 've been struggling to define her to myself ever since I left her , and that is the nearest I can get to it . I 'm going to ask Miss Cornelia about her . ''
CHAPTER 11 THE STORY OF LESLIE MOORE `` Yes , the eighth baby arrived a fortnight ago , '' said Miss XXXXX , from a rocker before the fire of the little house one chilly October afternoon .
Anne Cornelia Gilbert Lynde Moore exile fascination heart kingdom left