`` So she has gone at last , '' said Marilla . `` Well , she has been sick for over a year , and the Barrys have been expecting to hear of her death any time . It is well she is at rest for she has suffered dreadfully , Anne . She was always kind to you . '' `` She has been kind to the last , Marilla . This letter is from her lawyer . She has left me a thousand dollars in her will . '' `` Gracious , ai n't that an awful lot of money , '' exclaimed Davy . `` She 's the woman you and Diana lit on when you jumped into the spare room bed , ai n't she ? Diana told me that story . Is that why she left you so much ? '' `` Hush , Davy , '' said Anne gently . She slipped away to the porch gable with a full heart , leaving Marilla and Mrs. Lynde to talk over the news to their hearts ' content . `` Do you s ` pose Anne will ever get married now ? '' speculated Davy anxiously . `` When Dorcas Sloane got married last summer she said if she 'd had enough money to live on she 'd never have been bothered with a man , but even a widower with eight children was better 'n living with a sister-in-law . '' `` Davy Keith , do hold your tongue , '' said Mrs. Rachel severely . `` The way you talk is scandalous for a small boy , that 's what . '' Chapter XIX An Interlude `` To think that this is my twentieth birthday , and that I 've left my teens behind me forever , '' said Anne , who was curled up on the hearth-rug with Rusty in her lap , to Aunt Jamesina who was reading in her pet chair . They were alone in the living room .
Stella and Priscilla had gone XXXXX a committee meeting and Phil was upstairs adorning herself for a party .
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