She had one of those souls that are always tied to the stake , burning in the suffering of the world around them . Apart from her own personal interest in the war , she was racked by the thought of Paris falling into the ruthless hands of the hordes who had burned Louvain and ruined the wonder of Rheims . But on the morrow and the next morrow came the news of the miracle of the Marne . Rilla rushed madly home from the office waving the Enterprise with its big red headlines . Susan ran out with trembling hands to hoist the flag . The doctor stalked about muttering `` Thank God . '' Mrs. Blythe cried and laughed and cried again . `` God just put out His hand and touched them -- ` thus far -- no farther ' , '' said Mr. Meredith that evening . Rilla was singing upstairs as she put the baby to bed . Paris was saved -- the war was over -- Germany had lost -- there would soon be an end now -- Jem and Jerry would be back . The black clouds had rolled by . `` Do n't you dare have colic this joyful night , '' she told the baby . `` If you do I 'll clap you back into your soup tureen and ship you off to Hopetown -- by freight -- on the early train . You have got beautiful eyes -- and you 're not quite as red and wrinkled as you were -- but you have n't a speck of hair -- and your hands are like little claws -- and I do n't like you a bit better than I ever did . But I hope your poor little white mother knows that you 're tucked in a soft basket with a bottle of milk as rich as Morgan allows instead of perishing by inches with old Meg Conover . And I hope she does n't know that I nearly drowned you that first morning when Susan was n't there and I let you slip right out of my hands into the water . Why will you be so slippery ? No , I do n't like you and I never will but for all that I 'm going to make a decent , upstanding infant of you . You are going to get as fat as a self-respecting child should be , for one thing . I am not going to have people saying ` what a puny little thing that baby of Rilla Blythe 's is ' as old Mrs. Drew said at the senior Red Cross yesterday .
XXXXX I ca n't love you I mean to be proud of you at least . ''
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