I 've done my best for her ; but I 've a big family of my own and I ca n't see how I 'm to keep the child . Poor Jane looked and longed for some one to come from Avonlea , but she could n't hold out . A patient , suffering creature she was ! '' `` I 'm her cousin , '' said Miss Rosetta , wiping her eyes , `` and I have come for the baby . I 'll take it home with me after the funeral ; and , if you please , Mrs. Gordon , let me see it right away , so it can get accustomed to me . Poor Jane ! I wish I could have got here in time to see her , she and I were such friends long ago . We were far more intimate and confidential than ever her and Charlotte was . Charlotte knows that , too ! '' The vim with which Miss Rosetta snapped this out rather amazed Mrs. Gordon , who could n't understand it at all . But she took Miss Rosetta upstairs to the room where the baby was sleeping . `` Oh , the little darling , '' cried Miss Rosetta , all her old maidishness and oddity falling away from her like a garment , and all her innate and denied motherhood shining out in her face like a transforming illumination . `` Oh , the sweet , dear , pretty little thing ! '' The baby was a darling -- a six-months ' old beauty with little golden ringlets curling and glistening all over its tiny head . As Miss Rosetta hung over it , it opened its eyes and then held out its tiny hands to her with a gurgle of confidence . `` Oh , you sweetest ! '' said Miss Rosetta rapturously , gathering it up in her arms . `` You belong to me , darling -- never , never , to that under-handed Charlotte ! What is its name , Mrs. Gordon ? '' `` It was n't named , '' said Mrs. Gordon .
`` Guess you 'll have XXXXX name it yourself , Miss Ellis . ''
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