`` Do n't tell her about Mr. Harrison and the cow , '' implored Anne . Marilla promised ; but the promise was quite unnecessary , for Mrs. Lynde was no sooner fairly seated than she said , `` I saw Mr. Harrison chasing your Jersey out of his oats today when I was coming home from Carmody . I thought he looked pretty mad . Did he make much of a rumpus ? '' Anne and Marilla furtively exchanged amused smiles . Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde . It was only that morning Anne had said , `` If you went to your own room at midnight , locked the door , pulled down the blind , and SNEEZED , Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was ! '' `` I believe he did , '' admitted Marilla . `` I was away . He gave Anne a piece of his mind . '' `` I think he is a very disagreeable man , '' said Anne , with a resentful toss of her ruddy head . `` You never said a truer word , '' said Mrs. Rachel solemnly . `` I knew there 'd be trouble when Robert Bell sold his place to a New Brunswick man , that 's what . I do n't know what Avonlea is coming to , with so many strange people rushing into it . It 'll soon not be safe to go to sleep in our beds . '' `` Why , what other strangers are coming in ? '' asked Marilla . `` Have n't you heard ? Well , there 's a family of Donnells , for one thing . They 've rented Peter Sloane 's old house .
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