`` As I say , I do fancy a veil . But maybe it should n't be worn with any dress but a white one . Please tell me , Anne , dearie , what you really think . I 'll go by your advice . '' `` I do n't think veils are usually worn with any but white dresses , '' admitted Anne , `` but that is merely a convention ; and I am like Mr. Elliott , Miss Cornelia . I do n't see any good reason why you should n't have a veil if you want one . '' But Miss Cornelia , who made her calls in calico wrappers , shook her head . `` If it is n't the proper thing I wo n't wear it , '' she said , with a sigh of regret for a lost dream . `` Since you are determined to be married , Miss Cornelia , '' said Gilbert solemnly , `` I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father . '' `` Well , I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott , '' said Miss Cornelia placidly . `` But let us hear your rules . '' `` The first one is , catch him . '' `` He 's caught . Go on . '' `` The second one is , feed him well . '' `` With enough pie . What next ? '' `` The third and fourth are -- keep your eye on him . '' `` I believe you , '' said Miss Cornelia emphatically . CHAPTER 38 RED ROSES The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August .
The little house folk lived much XXXXX it , and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom .
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