`` When all is said and done , they DO , '' admitted Miss Cornelia . `` And that balances everything . Anyway , we 've got them now and we must just do the best we can by them and stick up for them to the Methodists . Well , I suppose I must be getting down harbour . Marshall will soon be home -- he went over-harbour to-day -- and wanting his super , man-like . I 'm sorry I have n't seen the other children . And where 's the doctor ? '' `` Up at the Harbour Head . We 've only been home three days and in that time he has spent three hours in his own bed and eaten two meals in his own house . '' `` Well , everybody who has been sick for the last six weeks has been waiting for him to come home -- and I do n't blame them . When that over-harbour doctor married the undertaker 's daughter at Lowbridge people felt suspicious of him . It did n't look well . You and the doctor must come down soon and tell us all about your trip . I suppose you 've had a splendid time . '' `` We had , '' agreed Anne . `` It was the fulfilment of years of dreams . The old world is very lovely and very wonderful . But we have come back very well satisfied with our own land . Canada is the finest country in the world , Miss Cornelia . '' `` Nobody ever doubted that , '' said Miss Cornelia , complacently .
`` And old P.E.I. is the loveliest province XXXXX it and Four Winds the loveliest spot in P.E.I. , '' laughed Anne , looking adoringly out over the sunset splendour of glen and harbour and gulf .
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