speculated Davy anxiously . `` When Dorcas Sloane got married last summer she said if she 'd had enough money to live on she 'd never have been bothered with a man , but even a widower with eight children was better 'n living with a sister-in-law . '' `` Davy Keith , do hold your tongue , '' said Mrs. Rachel severely . `` The way you talk is scandalous for a small boy , that 's what . '' Chapter XIX An Interlude `` To think that this is my twentieth birthday , and that I 've left my teens behind me forever , '' said Anne , who was curled up on the hearth-rug with Rusty in her lap , to Aunt Jamesina who was reading in her pet chair . They were alone in the living room . Stella and Priscilla had gone to a committee meeting and Phil was upstairs adorning herself for a party . `` I suppose you feel kind of , sorry '' said Aunt Jamesina . `` The teens are such a nice part of life . I 'm glad I 've never gone out of them myself . '' Anne laughed . `` You never will , Aunty . You 'll be eighteen when you should be a hundred . Yes , I 'm sorry , and a little dissatisfied as well . Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed , for good or evil . I do n't feel that it 's what it should be . It 's full of flaws . '' `` So 's everybody 's , '' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully . `` Mine 's cracked in a hundred places . Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or ` tother , and would go on developing in that line .
Do n't worry over it , XXXXX .
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