That 's all you ever go out of Avonlea for -- just to fetch and carry tales . '' Finally she finished up with the minister . `` I 'm going to the Baptist church in Spencervale after this , '' she said . Her tone and look said a hundred other things . She whirled into the house and slammed the door . Mr. Leonard looked around on us with a pitying smile as Stephen put poor , half-fainting Prissy into the buggy . `` I am very sorry , '' he said in that gently , saintly way of his , `` for the Baptists . '' XI . The Miracle at Carmody Salome looked out of the kitchen window , and a pucker of distress appeared on her smooth forehead . `` Dear , dear , what has Lionel Hezekiah been doing now ? '' she murmured anxiously . Involuntarily she reached out for her crutch ; but it was a little beyond her reach , having fallen on the floor , and without it Salome could not move a step . `` Well , anyway , Judith is bringing him in as fast as she can , '' she reflected . `` He must have been up to something terrible this time ; for she looks very cross , and she never walks like that unless she is angry clear through . Dear me , I am sometimes tempted to think that Judith and I made a mistake in adopting the child . I suppose two old maids do n't know much about bringing up a boy properly . But he is NOT a bad child , and it really seems to me that there must be some way of making him behave better if we only knew what it was . '' Salome 's monologue was cut short by the entrance of her sister Judith , holding Lionel Hezekiah by his chubby wrist with a determined grip . Judith Marsh was ten years older than Salome , and the two women were as different in appearance as night and day . Salome , in spite of her thirty-five years , looked almost girlish .
She was small and pink and flower-like , with little rings XXXXX pale golden hair clustering all over her head in a most unspinster-like fashion , and her eyes were big and blue , and mild as a dove 's .
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