I 'm going back to the trenches tomorrow . Every man is needed there that can be got . '' `` Laughter is gone out of the world , '' said Faith Meredith , who had come over to report on her letters . `` I remember telling old Mrs. Taylor long ago that the world was a world of laughter . But it is n't so any longer . '' `` It 's a shriek of anguish , '' said Gertrude Oliver . `` We must keep a little laughter , girls , '' said Mrs. Blythe . `` A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes -- only sometimes , '' she added under her breath . She had found it very hard to laugh during the three weeks she had just lived through -- she , Anne Blythe , to whom laughter had always come so easily and freshly . And what hurt most was that Rilla 's laughter had grown so rare -- Rilla whom she used to think laughed over-much . Was all the child 's girlhood to be so clouded ? Yet how strong and clever and womanly she was growing ! How patiently she knitted and sewed and manipulated those uncertain Junior Reds ! And how wonderful she was with Jims . `` She really could not do better for that child than if she had raised a baker 's dozen , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' Susan had avowed solemnly . `` Little did I ever expect it of her on the day she landed here with that soup tureen . '' CHAPTER XIII A SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE `` I am very much afraid , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan , who had been on a pilgrimage to the station with some choice bones for Dog Monday , `` that something terrible has happened . Whiskers-on-the-moon came off the train from Charlottetown and he was looking pleased . I do not remember that I ever saw him with a smile on in public before . Of course he may have just been getting the better of somebody in a cattle deal but I have an awful presentiment that the Huns have broken through somewhere . ''
Perhaps XXXXX was unjust in connecting Mr. Pryor 's smile with the sinking of the Lusitania , news of which circulated an hour later when the mail was distributed .
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