Besides , it 's the year we moved to Avonlea from Newbridge . My love for you has made my life very rich and it has kept me from much of harm and evil . I owe this all to you , my sweetest teacher . '' ' I shall never forget how sweet you looked the last time I saw you in that black dress with flowers in your hair . I shall see you like that for ever , even when we are both old and gray . You will always be young and fair to me , dearest teacher . I am thinking of you all the time ... in the morning and at the noontide and at the twilight . I love you when you laugh and when you sigh ... even when you look disdainful . I never saw you look cross though Anthony Pye says you always look so but I do n't wonder you look cross at him for he deserves it . I love you in every dress ... you seem more adorable in each new dress than the last . '' ` Dearest teacher , good night . The sun has set and the stars are shining ... stars that are as bright and beautiful as your eyes . I kiss your hands and face , my sweet . May God watch over you and protect you from all harm . '' `` Your afecksionate pupil , '' ` Annetta Bell . ' '' `` This extraordinary letter puzzled me not a little . I knew Annetta could n't have composed it any more than she could fly . When I went to school the next day I took her for a walk down to the brook at recess and asked her to tell me the truth about the letter . Annetta cried and ` fessed up freely . She said she had never written a letter and she did n't know how to , or what to say , but there was bundle of love letters in her mother 's top bureau drawer which had been written to her by an old ` beau . ' ''
` It was n't father , ' sobbed XXXXX , ` it was someone who was studying for a minister , and so he could write lovely letters , but ma did n't marry him after all .
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