`` Typhoid is a hard thing to get over , '' said Miss Cornelia emphatically , `` especially when one has had such a close shave as Walter had . I think he 'd do well to stay out of college another year . But then he 's so ambitious . Are Di and Nan going too ? '' `` Yes . They both wanted to teach another year but Gilbert thinks they had better go to Redmond this fall . '' `` I 'm glad of that . They 'll keep an eye on Walter and see that he does n't study too hard . I suppose , '' continued Miss Cornelia , with a side glance at Susan , `` that after the snub I got a few minutes ago it will not be safe for me to suggest that Jerry Meredith is making sheep 's eyes at Nan . '' Susan ignored this and Mrs. Blythe laughed again . `` Dear Miss Cornelia , I have my hands full , have n't I ? -- with all these boys and girls sweethearting around me ? If I took it seriously it would quite crush me . But I do n't -- it is too hard yet to realize that they 're grown up . When I look at those two tall sons of mine I wonder if they can possibly be the fat , sweet , dimpled babies I kissed and cuddled and sang to slumber the other day -- only the other day , Miss Cornelia . Was n't Jem the dearest baby in the old House of Dreams ? and now he 's a B.A. and accused of courting . '' `` We 're all growing older , '' sighed Miss Cornelia . `` The only part of me that feels old , '' said Mrs. Blythe , `` is the ankle I broke when Josie Pye dared me to walk the Barry ridge-pole in the Green Gables days . I have an ache in it when the wind is east .
I wo n't admit XXXXX it is rheumatism , but it does ache .
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