`` They just came home this afternoon , you know , and they could hardly wait until supper was over before rushing down to the valley . They love it above every spot on earth . Even the maple grove does n't rival it in their affections . '' `` I am afraid they love it too well , '' said Susan gloomily . `` Little Jem said once he would rather go to Rainbow Valley than to heaven when he died , and that was not a proper remark . '' `` I suppose they had a great time in Avonlea ? '' said Miss Cornelia . `` Enormous . Marilla does spoil them terribly . Jem , in particular , can do no wrong in her eyes . '' `` Miss Cuthbert must be an old lady now , '' said Miss Cornelia , getting out her knitting , so that she could hold her own with Susan . Miss Cornelia held that the woman whose hands were employed always had the advantage over the woman whose hands were not . `` Marilla is eighty-five , '' said Anne with a sigh . `` Her hair is snow-white . But , strange to say , her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty . '' `` Well , dearie , I 'm real glad you 're all back . I 've been dreadful lonesome . But we have n't been dull in the Glen , believe ME . There has n't been such an exciting spring in my time , as far as church matters go . We 've got settled with a minister at last , Anne dearie . ''
`` The Reverend John Knox Meredith , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan , resolved not XXXXX let Miss Cornelia tell all the news .
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