I hated ` Anne ' and I called myself ` Cordelia ' in imagination . '' `` I like Anne . It was my mother 's name . Old-fashioned names are the best and sweetest in my opinion . If you 're going to get tea you might send the young doctor to talk to me . He 's been lying on the sofa in that office ever since I came , laughing fit to kill over what I 've been saying . '' `` How did you know ? '' cried Anne , too aghast at this instance of Miss Cornelia 's uncanny prescience to make a polite denial . `` I saw him sitting beside you when I came up the lane , and I know men 's tricks , '' retorted Miss Cornelia . `` There , I 've finished my little dress , dearie , and the eighth baby can come as soon as it pleases . '' CHAPTER 9 AN EVENING AT FOUR WINDS POINT It was late September when Anne and Gilbert were able to pay Four Winds light their promised visit . They had often planned to go , but something always occurred to prevent them . Captain Jim had `` dropped in '' several times at the little house . `` I do n't stand on ceremony , Mistress Blythe , '' he told Anne . `` It 's a real pleasure to me to come here , and I 'm not going to deny myself jest because you have n't got down to see me . There ought n't to be no bargaining like that among the race that knows Joseph . I 'll come when I can , and you come when you can , and so long 's we have our pleasant little chat it do n't matter a mite what roof 's over us . '' Captain Jim took a great fancy to Gog and Magog , who were presiding over the destinies of the hearth in the little house with as much dignity and aplomb as they had done at Patty 's Place . `` Are n't they the cutest little cusses ? '' he would say delightedly ; and he bade them greeting and farewell as gravely and invariably as he did his host and hostess .
Captain XXXXX was not going to offend household deities by any lack of reverence and ceremony .
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