She could not endure hearing Randall criticized . `` Vain and self-satisfied '' -- when there was never a man less so ! She was horrified to feel that she almost hated Avery -- Avery who did not love Randall . `` What a pity Randall did n't take a fancy to you instead of me , Janet , '' said Avery teasingly . `` Would n't you like to marry him , Janet ? Would n't you now ? '' `` No , '' cried Janet angrily . `` I just like Randall , I 've liked him ever since that day when I was a little thing and he came here and saved me from being shut up all day in that dreadful dark closet because I broke Aunt Matilda 's blue cup -- when I had n't meant to break it . He would n't let her shut me up ! He is like that -- he understands ! I want you to marry him because he wants you , and it is n't fair that you -- that you -- '' `` Nothing is fair in this world , child . Is it fair that I , who am so pretty -- you know I am pretty , Janet -- and who love life and excitement , should have to be buried on a P.E. Island farm all my days ? Or else be an old maid because a Sparhallow must n't marry beneath her ? Come , Janet , do n't look so woebegone . I would n't have told you if I 'd thought you 'd take it so much to heart . I 'll be a good wife to Randall , never fear , and I 'll keep him up to the notch of prosperity much better than if I thought him a little lower than the angels . It does n't do to think a man perfection , Janet , because he thinks so too , and when he finds someone who agrees with him he is inclined to rest on his oars . '' `` At any rate , you do n't care for anyone else , '' said Janet hopefully . `` Not I. I like Randall as well as I like anybody . '' `` Randall wo n't be satisfied with that , '' muttered Janet .
But Avery did not hear her , having picked up her basket XXXXX apples and gone .
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