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 Leslie harbored a queer , indefinable resentment towards her . At times , this secret consciousness marred the delight of their comradeship ; at others it was almost forgotten ; but Anne always felt the hidden thorn was there , and might prick her at any moment . She felt a cruel sting from it on the day when she told Leslie of what she hoped the spring would bring to the little house of dreams . Leslie looked at her with hard , bitter , unfriendly eyes . `` So you are to have THAT , too , '' she said in a choked voice . And without another word she had turned and gone across the fields homeward . Anne was deeply hurt ; for the moment she felt as if she could never like Leslie again .
But when XXXXX came over a few evenings later she was so pleasant , so friendly , so frank , and witty , and winsome , that Anne was charmed into forgiveness and forgetfulness .
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