Oh , Marilla , do you think -- you do n't think , do you -- that his hair is going to be red ? '' `` I do n't see much hair of any color , '' said Marilla . `` I would n't worry about it , if I were you , until it becomes visible . '' `` Marilla , he HAS hair -- look at that fine little down all over his head . Anyway , nurse says his eyes will be hazel and his forehead is exactly like Gilbert 's . '' `` And he has the nicest little ears , Mrs. Doctor , dear , '' said Susan . `` The first thing I did was to look at his ears . Hair is deceitful and noses and eyes change , and you can not tell what is going to come of them , but ears is ears from start to finish , and you always know where you are with them . Just look at their shape -- and they are set right back against his precious head . You will never need to be ashamed of his ears , Mrs. Doctor , dear . '' Anne 's convalescence was rapid and happy . Folks came and worshipped the baby , as people have bowed before the kingship of the new-born since long before the Wise Men of the East knelt in homage to the Royal Babe of the Bethlehem manger . Leslie , slowly finding herself amid the new conditions of her life , hovered over it , like a beautiful , golden-crowned Madonna . Miss Cornelia nursed it as knackily as could any mother in Israel . Captain Jim held the small creature in his big brown hands and gazed tenderly at it , with eyes that saw the children who had never been born to him . `` What are you going to call him ? '' asked Miss Cornelia . `` Anne has settled his name , '' answered Gilbert . `` James Matthew -- after the two finest gentlemen I 've ever known -- not even saving your presence , '' said Anne with a saucy glance at Gilbert . Gilbert smiled .
`` I never knew Matthew very well ; he was so shy we boys could n't get acquainted with him -- but I quite agree with you that Captain Jim is one XXXXX the rarest and finest souls God ever clothed in clay .
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