I just love Miss Lavendar . Grandma is pleased , too . She says she 's real glad father did n't pick out an American for his second wife , because , although it turned out all right the first time , such a thing would n't be likely to happen twice . Mrs. Lynde says she thoroughly approves of the match and thinks its likely Miss Lavendar will give up her queer notions and be like other people , now that she 's going to be married . But I hope she wo n't give her queer notions up , teacher , because I like them . And I do n't want her to be like other people . There are too many other people around as it is . YOU know , teacher . '' Charlotta the Fourth was another radiant person . `` Oh , Miss Shirley , ma'am , it has all turned out so beautiful . When Mr. Irving and Miss Lavendar come back from their tower I 'm to go up to Boston and live with them ... and me only fifteen , and the other girls never went till they were sixteen . Ai n't Mr. Irving splendid ? He just worships the ground she treads on and it makes me feel so queer sometimes to see the look in his eyes when he 's watching her . It beggars description , Miss Shirley , ma'am . I 'm awful thankful they 're so fond of each other . It 's the best way , when all 's said and done , though some folks can get along without it . I 've got an aunt who has been married three times and says she married the first time for love and the last two times for strictly business , and was happy with all three except at the times of the funerals . But I think she took a resk , Miss Shirley , ma'am . '' `` Oh , it 's all so romantic , '' breathed Anne to Marilla that night . `` If I had n't taken the wrong path that day we went to Mr. Kimball 's I 'd never have known Miss Lavendar ; and if I had n't met her I 'd never have taken Paul there ... and he 'd never have written to his father about visiting Miss Lavendar just as Mr. Irving was starting for San Francisco .
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