I do n't know whether Leslie 'll want to be bothered with him , either , but there 's no one else . If she ca n't take him he 'll have to go over the harbor . '' `` When you 've seen her come back and help us eat our cherry pies , '' said Anne . `` Bring Leslie and Dick , too , if they can come . And so you 're going to Kingsport ? What a nice time you will have . I must give you a letter to a friend of mine there -- Mrs. Jonas Blake . '' `` I 've prevailed on Mrs. Thomas Holt to go with me , '' said Miss Cornelia complacently . `` It 's time she had a little holiday , believe ME . She has just about worked herself to death . Tom Holt can crochet beautifully , but he ca n't make a living for his family . He never seems to be able to get up early enough to do any work , but I notice he can always get up early to go fishing . Is n't that like a man ? '' Anne smiled . She had learned to discount largely Miss Cornelia 's opinions of the Four Winds men . Otherwise she must have believed them the most hopeless assortment of reprobates and ne'er - do-wells in the world , with veritable slaves and martyrs for wives . This particular Tom Holt , for example , she knew to be a kind husband , a much loved father , and an excellent neighbor . If he were rather inclined to be lazy , liking better the fishing he had been born for than the farming he had not , and if he had a harmless eccentricity for doing fancy work , nobody save Miss Cornelia seemed to hold it against him . His wife was a `` hustler , '' who gloried in hustling ; his family got a comfortable living off the farm ; and his strapping sons and daughters , inheriting their mother 's energy , were all in a fair way to do well in the world . There was not a happier household in Glen St. Mary than the Holts ' .
Miss XXXXX returned satisfied from the house up the brook .
Anne Cornelia Dick Holt Kingsport Leslie Mary Winds do-wells reprobates