Captain Jim treated himself to an admiring smile before he went on with his story . `` Well , purty soon all the Glen and Four Winds people knew the schoolmaster 's bride was coming , and they were all glad because they thought so much of him . And everybody took an interest in his new house -- THIS house . He picked this site for it , because you could see the harbor and hear the sea from it . He made the garden out there for his bride , but he did n't plant the Lombardies . Mrs. Ned Russell planted THEM . But there 's a double row of rose-bushes in the garden that the little girls who went to the Glen school set out there for the schoolmaster 's bride . He said they were pink for her cheeks and white for her brow and red for her lips . He 'd quoted poetry so much that he sorter got into the habit of talking it , too , I reckon . `` Almost everybody sent him some little present to help out the furnishing of the house . When the Russells came into it they were well-to-do and furnished it real handsome , as you can see ; but the first furniture that went into it was plain enough . This little house was rich in love , though . The women sent in quilts and tablecloths and towels , and one man made a chest for her , and another a table and so on . Even blind old Aunt Margaret Boyd wove a little basket for her out of the sweet-scented sand-hill grass . The schoolmaster 's wife used it for years to keep her handkerchiefs in . `` Well , at last everything was ready -- even to the logs in the big fireplace ready for lighting . 'T was n't exactly THIS fireplace , though 't was in the same place . Miss Elizabeth had this put in when she made the house over fifteen years ago . It was a big , old-fashioned fireplace where you could have roasted an ox . Many 's the time I 've sat here and spun yarns , same 's I 'm doing tonight . ''
Again there was a silence , while Captain Jim kept a passing tryst with visitants Anne and Gilbert could not see -- the folks who had sat with him around that fireplace in the vanished XXXXX , with mirth and bridal joy shining in eyes long since closed forever under churchyard sod or heaving leagues of sea .
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