I 'd a-done it . '' Miss Cornelia looked so grimly determined that Anne could almost see her with a spade in her hand . `` Do n't you know ANY good husbands , Miss Bryant ? '' `` Oh , yes , lots of them -- over yonder , '' said Miss Cornelia , waving her hand through the open window towards the little graveyard of the church across the harbor . `` But living -- going about in the flesh ? '' persisted Anne . `` Oh , there 's a few , just to show that with God all things are possible , '' acknowledged Miss Cornelia reluctantly . `` I do n't deny that an odd man here and there , if he 's caught young and trained up proper , and if his mother has spanked him well beforehand , may turn out a decent being . YOUR husband , now , is n't so bad , as men go , from all I hear . I s ` pose '' -- Miss Cornelia looked sharply at Anne over her glasses -- `` you think there 's nobody like him in the world . '' `` There is n't , '' said Anne promptly . `` Ah , well , I heard another bride say that once , '' sighed Miss Cornelia . `` Jennie Dean thought when she married that there was n't anybody like HER husband in the world . And she was right -- there was n't ! And a good thing , too , believe ME ! He led her an awful life -- and he was courting his second wife while Jennie was dying . `` Was n't that like a man ? However , I hope YOUR confidence will be better justified , dearie . The young doctor is taking real well . I was afraid at first he might n't , for folks hereabouts have always thought old Doctor Dave the only doctor in the world .
Doctor XXXXX had n't much tact , to be sure -- he was always talking of ropes in houses where someone had hanged himself .
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