He 's seventy-six , you know . I never heard any reason for his staying a bachelor , but there must be one , believe ME . He sailed all his life till five years ago , and there 's no corner of the earth he has n't poked his nose into . He and Elizabeth Russell were great cronies , all their lives , but they never had any notion of sweet-hearting . Elizabeth never married , though she had plenty of chances . She was a great beauty when she was young . The year the Prince of Wales came to the Island she was visiting her uncle in Charlottetown and he was a Government official , and so she got invited to the great ball . She was the prettiest girl there , and the Prince danced with her , and all the other women he did n't dance with were furious about it , because their social standing was higher than hers and they said he should n't have passed them over . Elizabeth was always very proud of that dance . Mean folks said that was why she never married -- she could n't put up with an ordinary man after dancing with a prince . But that was n't so . She told me the reason once -- it was because she had such a temper that she was afraid she could n't live peaceably with any man . She HAD an awful temper -- she used to have to go upstairs and bite pieces out of her bureau to keep it down by times . But I told her that was n't any reason for not marrying if she wanted to . There 's no reason why we should let the men have a monopoly of temper , is there , Mrs. Blythe , dearie ? '' `` I 've a bit of temper myself , '' sighed Anne . `` It 's well you have , dearie . You wo n't be half so likely to be trodden on , believe ME ! My , how that golden glow of yours is blooming ! Your garden looks fine .
Poor XXXXX always took such care of it . ''
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