She taught school here three years ago , afore your folks moved over from Talcott . She belonged up Montrose way and she was only eighteen when she came here to teach . She boarded with us and her and me were the greatest chums . She was just a sweet girl . She was the prettiest teacher we ever had , and that 's saying a good deal , for Springdale has always been noted for getting good-looking schoolmarms , just as Miller 's Road is noted for its humly ones . Anne had yards of brown wavy hair and big , dark blue eyes . Her face was kind o ' pale , but when she smiled you would have to smile too , if you 'd been chief mourner at your own funeral . She was a well-spring of joy in the house , and we all loved her . Gilbert Martin began to drive her the very first week she was here . Gilbert is my sister Julia 's son , and a fine young fellow he is . It ai n't good manners to brag of your own relations , but I 'm always forgetting and doing it . Gil was a great pet of mine . He was so bright and nice-mannered everybody liked him . Him and Anne were a fine-looking couple , Nora May . Not but what they had their shortcomings . Anne 's nose was a mite too long and Gil had a crooked mouth . Besides , they was both pretty proud and sperrited and high-strung . But they thought an awful lot of each other . It made me feel young again to see 'em . Anne was n't a mossel vain , but nights she expected Gil she 'd prink for hours afore her glass , fixing her hair this way and that , and trying on all her good clothes to see which become her most .
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