When Mr. Irving and Miss Lavendar come back from their tower I 'm to go up to Boston and live with them ... and me only fifteen , and the other girls never went till they were sixteen . Ai n't Mr. Irving splendid ? He just worships the ground she treads on and it makes me feel so queer sometimes to see the look in his eyes when he 's watching her . It beggars description , Miss Shirley , ma'am . I 'm awful thankful they 're so fond of each other . It 's the best way , when all 's said and done , though some folks can get along without it . I 've got an aunt who has been married three times and says she married the first time for love and the last two times for strictly business , and was happy with all three except at the times of the funerals . But I think she took a resk , Miss Shirley , ma'am . '' `` Oh , it 's all so romantic , '' breathed Anne to Marilla that night . `` If I had n't taken the wrong path that day we went to Mr. Kimball 's I 'd never have known Miss Lavendar ; and if I had n't met her I 'd never have taken Paul there ... and he 'd never have written to his father about visiting Miss Lavendar just as Mr. Irving was starting for San Francisco . Mr. Irving says whenever he got that letter he made up his mind to send his partner to San Francisco and come here instead . He had n't heard anything of Miss Lavendar for fifteen years . Somebody had told him then that she was to be married and he thought she was and never asked anybody anything about her . And now everything has come right . And I had a hand in bringing it about . Perhaps , as Mrs. Lynde says , everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway . But even so , it 's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination . Yes indeed , it 's very romantic . '' `` I ca n't see that it 's so terribly romantic at all , '' said Marilla rather crisply . Marilla thought Anne was too worked up about it and had plenty to do with getting ready for college without `` traipsing '' to Echo Lodge two days out of three helping Miss Lavendar .
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