We 'll get square then . Come on , let 's put the things back in . I 'm tired to death and I do n't believe the rooms will look much better than before we started -- though I shook out pecks of dust in the graveyard . I HATE house-cleaning . '' It was two o'clock before the tired girls finished the two rooms . They got a dreary bite in the kitchen and intended to wash the dishes at once . But Faith happened to pick up a new story-book Di Blythe had lent her and was lost to the world until sunset . Una took a cup of rank tea up to Carl but found him asleep ; so she curled herself up on Jerry 's bed and went to sleep too . Meanwhile , a weird story flew through Glen St. Mary and folks asked each other seriously what was to be done with those manse youngsters . `` That is past laughing at , believe ME , '' said Miss Cornelia to her husband , with a heavy sigh . `` I could n't believe it at first . Miranda Drew brought the story home from the Methodist Sunday School this afternoon and I simply scoffed at it . But Mrs. Elder Abraham says she and the Elder saw it with their own eyes . '' `` Saw what ? '' asked Marshall . `` Faith and Una Meredith stayed home from Sunday School this morning and CLEANED HOUSE , '' said Miss Cornelia , in accents of despair . `` When Elder Abraham went home from the church -- he had stayed behind to straighten out the library books -- he saw them shaking rugs in the Methodist graveyard . I can never look a Methodist in the face again . Just think what a scandal it will make ! '' A scandal it assuredly did make , growing more scandalous as it spread , until the over-harbour people heard that the manse children had not only cleaned house and put out a washing on Sunday , but had wound up with an afternoon picnic in the graveyard while the Methodist Sunday School was going on .
The only household which remained in blissful ignorance of the terrible thing was the manse itself ; XXXXX what Faith and Una fondly believed to be Tuesday it rained again ; for the next three days it rained ; nobody came near the manse ; the manse folk went nowhere ; they might have waded through the misty Rainbow Valley up to Ingleside , but all the Blythe family , save Susan and the doctor , were away on a visit to Avonlea .
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