If she did n't she would n't have anything to do with you , much less chumming with you as she does . I know Leslie Moore too well not to be sure of that . '' `` The first time I ever saw her , driving her geese down the hill on the day I came to Four Winds , she looked at me with the same expression , '' persisted Anne . `` I felt it , even in the midst of my admiration of her beauty . She looked at me resentfully -- she did , indeed , Captain Jim . '' `` The resentment must have been about something else , Mistress Blythe , and you jest come in for a share of it because you happened past . Leslie DOES take sullen spells now and again , poor girl . I ca n't blame her , when I know what she has to put up with . I do n't know why it 's permitted . The doctor and I have talked a lot abut the origin of evil , but we have n't quite found out all about it yet . There 's a vast of onunderstandable things in life , ai n't there , Mistress Blythe ? Sometimes things seem to work out real proper-like , same as with you and the doctor . And then again they all seem to go catawampus . There 's Leslie , so clever and beautiful you 'd think she was meant for a queen , and instead she 's cooped up over there , robbed of almost everything a woman 'd value , with no prospect except waiting on Dick Moore all her life . Though , mind you , Mistress Blythe , I daresay she 'd choose her life now , such as it is , rather than the life she lived with Dick before he went away . THAT 'S something a clumsy old sailor 's tongue must n't meddle with . But you 've helped Leslie a lot -- she 's a different creature since you come to Four Winds . Us old friends see the difference in her , as you ca n't . Miss Cornelia and me was talking it over the other day , and it 's one of the mighty few p ` ints that we see eye to eye on . So jest you throw overboard any idea of her not liking you . ''
Anne could hardly discard it completely , for there were undoubtedly times when she felt , with an instinct that was not to be combated by reason , that XXXXX harbored a queer , indefinable resentment towards her .
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