`` You see , he 'll be glad that much SOONER , Miss West . '' `` I see , '' said Rosemary . She went to the house , wrote a note and gave it to Una . When that small damsel had run off , a palpitating bundle of happiness , Rosemary went to Ellen , who was shelling peas on the back porch . `` Ellen , '' she said , `` Una Meredith has just been here to ask me to marry her father . '' Ellen looked up and read her sister 's face . `` And you 're going to ? '' she said . `` It 's quite likely . '' Ellen went on shelling peas for a few minutes . Then she suddenly put her hands up to her own face . There were tears in her black-browed eyes . `` I -- I hope we 'll all be happy , '' she said between a sob and a laugh . Down at the manse Una Meredith , warm , rosy , triumphant , marched boldly into her father 's study and laid a letter on the desk before him . His pale face flushed as he saw the clear , fine handwriting he knew so well . He opened the letter . It was very short -- but he shed twenty years as he read it . Rosemary asked him if he could meet her that evening at sunset by the spring in Rainbow Valley . CHAPTER XXXV . `` LET THE PIPER COME '' `` And so , '' said Miss Cornelia , `` the double wedding is to be sometime about the middle of this month . ''
There was a faint chill XXXXX the air of the early September evening , so Anne had lighted her ever ready fire of driftwood in the big living room , and she and Miss Cornelia basked in its fairy flicker .
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