Are you hurt ? '' Susan picked herself up . `` No , '' she said grimly , `` I am not hurt , though I am jarred all over . Do not be alarmed . As for what has happened -- I tried to kick that darned cat with both feet , that is what happened . '' Everybody shrieked with laughter . The doctor was quite helpless . `` Oh , Susan , Susan , '' he gasped . `` That I should live to hear you swear . '' `` I am sorry , '' said Susan in real distress , `` that I used such an expression before two young girls . But I said that beast was darned , and darned it is . It belongs to Old Nick . '' `` Do you expect it will vanish some of these days with a bang and the odour of brimstone , Susan ? '' `` It will go to its own place in due time and that you may tie to , '' said Susan dourly , shaking out her raddled bones and going to her oven . `` I suppose my plunking down like that has shaken my cake so that it will be as heavy as lead . '' But the cake was not heavy . It was all a bride 's cake should be , and Susan iced it beautifully . Next day she and Rilla worked all the forenoon , making delicacies for the wedding-feast , and as soon as Miranda phoned up that her father was safely off everything was packed in a big hamper and taken down to the Pryor house . Joe soon arrived in his uniform and a state of violent excitement , accompanied by his best man , Sergeant Malcolm Crawford . There were quite a few guests , for all the Manse and Ingleside folk were there , and a dozen or so of Joe 's relatives , including his mother , `` Mrs. Dead Angus Milgrave , '' so called , cheerfully , to distinguish her from another lady whose Angus was living .
Mrs. Dead Angus wore a rather disapproving expression , not caring over-much for this alliance XXXXX the house of Whiskers-on-the-moon .
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