Jo graduates from St. Columbia this spring , you know . Then he 's going to take a little mission church down on Patterson Street in the slums . Fancy me in the slums ! But I 'd go there or to Greenland 's icy mountains with him . '' `` And this is the girl who would NEVER marry a man who was n't rich , '' commented Anne to a young pine tree . `` Oh , do n't cast up the follies of my youth to me . I shall be poor as gaily as I 've been rich . You 'll see . I 'm going to learn how to cook and make over dresses . I 've learned how to market since I 've lived at Patty 's Place ; and once I taught a Sunday School class for a whole summer . Aunt Jamesina says I 'll ruin Jo 's career if I marry him . But I wo n't . I know I have n't much sense or sobriety , but I 've got what is ever so much better -- the knack of making people like me . There is a man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting . He says , ` If you ca n't thine like an electric thtar thine like a candlethtick . ' I 'll be Jo 's little candlestick . '' `` Phil , you 're incorrigible . Well , I love you so much that I ca n't make nice , light , congratulatory little speeches . But I 'm heart-glad of your happiness . '' `` I know .
Those big gray eyes XXXXX yours are brimming over with real friendship , Anne .
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