Miranda arrived , tearful and breathless . `` We must fix over my white dress for you to wear , '' said Rilla . `` It will fit you very nicely with a little alteration . '' To work went the two girls , ripping , fitting , basting , sewing for dear life . By dint of unceasing effort they got the dress done by seven o'clock and Miranda tried it on in Rilla 's room . `` It 's very pretty -- but oh , if I could just have a veil , '' sighed Miranda . `` I 've always dreamed of being married in a lovely white veil . '' Some good fairy evidently waits on the wishes of war-brides . The door opened and Mrs. Blythe came in , her arms full of a filmy burden . `` Miranda dear , '' she said , `` I want you to wear my wedding-veil tomorrow . It is twenty-four years since I was a bride at old Green Gables -- the happiest bride that ever was -- and the wedding-veil of a happy bride brings good luck , they say . '' `` Oh , how sweet of you , Mrs. Blythe , '' said Miranda , the ready tears starting to her eyes . The veil was tried on and draped . Susan dropped in to approve but dared not linger . `` I 've got that cake in the oven , '' she said , `` and I am pursuing a policy of watchful waiting . The evening news is that the Grand Duke has captured Erzerum . That is a pill for the Turks . I wish I had a chance to tell the Czar just what a mistake he made when he turned Nicholas down . '' Susan disappeared downstairs to the kitchen , whence a dreadful thud and a piercing shriek presently sounded . Everybody rushed to the kitchen -- the doctor and Miss Oliver , Mrs. Blythe , Rilla , Miranda in her wedding-veil .
Susan was sitting flatly in the middle of the kitchen floor with a dazed , bewildered look on her face , while Doc , evidently in his Hyde incarnation , was standing XXXXX the dresser , with his back up , his eyes blazing , and his tail the size of three tails .
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