And I 'll make her enough blue plum preserve to stock her jam closet for a year . It seems real strange . Those blue plum trees had n't even a blossom for three years , and I thought they might as well be cut down . And this last spring they were white , and such a crop of plums I never remember at Green Gables . '' `` Well , thank goodness that Anne and Gilbert really are going to be married after all . It 's what I 've always prayed for , '' said Mrs. Rachel , in the tone of one who is comfortably sure that her prayers have availed much . `` It was a great relief to find out that she really did n't mean to take the Kingsport man . He was rich , to be sure , and Gilbert is poor -- at least , to begin with ; but then he 's an Island boy . '' `` He 's Gilbert Blythe , '' said Marilla contentedly . Marilla would have died the death before she would have put into words the thought that was always in the background of her mind whenever she had looked at Gilbert from his childhood up -- the thought that , had it not been for her own wilful pride long , long ago , he might have been HER son . Marilla felt that , in some strange way , his marriage with Anne would put right that old mistake . Good had come out of the evil of the ancient bitterness . As for Anne herself , she was so happy that she almost felt frightened . The gods , so says the old superstition , do not like to behold too happy mortals . It is certain , at least , that some human beings do not . Two of that ilk descended upon Anne one violet dusk and proceeded to do what in them lay to prick the rainbow bubble of her satisfaction . If she thought she was getting any particular prize in young Dr. Blythe , or if she imagined that he was still as infatuated with her as he might have been in his salad days , it was surely their duty to put the matter before her in another light . Yet these two worthy ladies were not enemies of Anne ; on the contrary , they were really quite fond of her , and would have defended her as their own young had anyone else attacked her . Human nature is not obliged to be consistent . Mrs. Inglis -- nee Jane Andrews , to quote from the Daily Enterprise -- came with her mother and Mrs. Jasper Bell .
But in Jane the milk of human kindness had not been curdled by XXXXX of matrimonial bickerings .
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