But I would n't hurt his dear old feelings for anything , so I carefully sowed them along the road at intervals . When the last one was gone , Uncle Mark said , a little rebukingly , ` Ye should n't a ` et all them candies to onct , Miss Phil . You 'll likely have the stummick-ache . ' `` Cousin Emily has only five boarders besides myself -- four old ladies and one young man . My right-hand neighbor is Mrs. Lilly . She is one of those people who seem to take a gruesome pleasure in detailing all their many aches and pains and sicknesses . You can not mention any ailment but she says , shaking her head , ` Ah , I know too well what that is ' -- and then you get all the details . Jonas declares he once spoke of locomotor ataxia in hearing and she said she knew too well what that was . She suffered from it for ten years and was finally cured by a traveling doctor . `` Who is Jonas ? Just wait , Anne Shirley . You 'll hear all about Jonas in the proper time and place . He is not to be mixed up with estimable old ladies . `` My left-hand neighbor at the table is Mrs. Phinney . She always speaks with a wailing , dolorous voice -- you are nervously expecting her to burst into tears every moment . She gives you the impression that life to her is indeed a vale of tears , and that a smile , never to speak of a laugh , is a frivolity truly reprehensible . She has a worse opinion of me than Aunt Jamesina , and she does n't love me hard to atone for it , as Aunty J. does , either . `` Miss Maria Grimsby sits cati-corner from me . The first day I came I remarked to Miss Maria that it looked a little like rain -- and Miss Maria laughed . I said the road from the station was very pretty -- and Miss Maria laughed .
I said there seemed XXXXX be a few mosquitoes left yet -- and Miss Maria laughed .
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