`` I want to get acquainted with all my new neighbors just as soon as possible . Mrs. Lynde is a lovely woman , is n't she ? So friendly . '' When Anne went home in the sweet June dusk , Mrs. Harrison went with her across the fields where the fireflies were lighting their starry lamps . `` I suppose , '' said Mrs. Harrison confidentially , `` that James A. has told you our story ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Then I need n't tell it , for James A. is a just man and he would tell the truth . The blame was far from being all on his side . I can see that now . I was n't back in my own house an hour before I wished I had n't been so hasty but I would n't give in . I see now that I expected too much of a man . And I was real foolish to mind his bad grammar . It does n't matter if a man does use bad grammar so long as he is a good provider and does n't go poking round the pantry to see how much sugar you 've used in a week . I feel that James A. and I are going to be real happy now . I wish I knew who ` Observer ' is , so that I could thank him . I owe him a real debt of gratitude . '' Anne kept her own counsel and Mrs. Harrison never knew that her gratitude found its way to its object . Anne felt rather bewildered over the far-reaching consequences of those foolish `` notes . '' They had reconciled a man to his wife and made the reputation of a prophet . Mrs. Lynde was in the Green Gables kitchen .
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