Cordelia was a regal brunette with a coronet of midnight hair and duskly flashing eyes . Geraldine was a queenly blonde with hair like spun gold and velvety purple eyes . '' `` I never saw anybody with purple eyes , '' said Diana dubiously . `` Neither did I. I just imagined them . I wanted something out of the common . Geraldine had an alabaster brow too . I 've found out what an alabaster brow is . That is one of the advantages of being thirteen . You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve . '' `` Well , what became of Cordelia and Geraldine ? '' asked Diana , who was beginning to feel rather interested in their fate . `` They grew in beauty side by side until they were sixteen . Then Bertram DeVere came to their native village and fell in love with the fair Geraldine . He saved her life when her horse ran away with her in a carriage , and she fainted in his arms and he carried her home three miles ; because , you understand , the carriage was all smashed up . I found it rather hard to imagine the proposal because I had no experience to go by . I asked Ruby Gillis if she knew anything about how men proposed because I thought she 'd likely be an authority on the subject , having so many sisters married . Ruby told me she was hid in the hall pantry when Malcolm Andres proposed to her sister Susan . She said Malcolm told Susan that his dad had given him the farm in his own name and then said , ` What do you say , darling pet , if we get hitched this fall ? ' And Susan said , ` Yes -- no -- I do n't know -- let me see ' -- and there they were , engaged as quick as that . But I did n't think that sort of a proposal was a very romantic one , so in the end I had to imagine it out as well as I could .
I made it very flowery and poetical and Bertram went XXXXX his knees , although Ruby Gillis says it is n't done nowadays .
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