Nobody cared whether the manse children were out in the damp or not . Aunt Martha was already in bed and the minister was still too deeply lost in speculations concerning the immortality of the soul to remember the mortality of the body . But they went home , too , with visions of good times coming in their heads . `` I think Rainbow Valley is even nicer than the graveyard , '' said Una . `` And I just love those dear Blythes . It 's SO nice when you can love people because so often you CA N'T . Father said in his sermon last Sunday that we should love everybody . But how can we ? How could we love Mrs. Alec Davis ? '' `` Oh , father only said that in the pulpit , '' said Faith airily . `` He has more sense than to really think it outside . '' The Blythe children went up to Ingleside , except Jem , who slipped away for a few moments on a solitary expedition to a remote corner of Rainbow Valley . Mayflowers grew there and Jem never forgot to take his mother a bouquet as long as they lasted . CHAPTER V . THE ADVENT OF MARY VANCE `` This is just the sort of day you feel as if things might happen , '' said Faith , responsive to the lure of crystal air and blue hills . She hugged herself with delight and danced a hornpipe on old Hezekiah Pollock 's bench tombstone , much to the horror of two ancient maidens who happened to be driving past just as Faith hopped on one foot around the stone , waving the other and her arms in the air . `` And that , '' groaned one ancient maiden , `` is our minister 's daughter . '' `` What else could you expect of a widower 's family ? '' groaned the other ancient maiden . And then they both shook their heads .
It was early on Saturday morning and the Merediths were out in the dew-drenched world XXXXX a delightful consciousness of the holiday .
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