` They 're good losers , ' said Susan grimly . ` When they lose a thing they keep on looking till they find it again ! Anyhow , my king and country need me now to cut potato sets for the back garden , so get you a knife and help me , Sophia Crawford . It will divert your thoughts and keep you from worrying over a campaign that you are not called upon to run . ' `` Susan is an old brick , and the way she flattens out poor Cousin Sophia is beautiful to behold . `` As for Verdun , the battle goes on and on , and we see-saw between hope and fear . But I know that strange dream of Miss Oliver 's foretold the victory of France . ` They shall not pass . ' '' CHAPTER XX NORMAN DOUGLAS SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING `` Where are you wandering , Anne o ' mine ? '' asked the doctor , who even yet , after twenty-four years of marriage , occasionally addressed his wife thus when nobody was about . Anne was sitting on the veranda steps , gazing absently over the wonderful bridal world of spring blossom , Beyond the white orchard was a copse of dark young firs and creamy wild cherries , where the robins were whistling madly ; for it was evening and the fire of early stars was burning over the maple grove . Anne came back with a little sigh . `` I was just taking relief from intolerable realities in a dream , Gilbert -- a dream that all our children were home again -- and all small again -- playing in Rainbow Valley . It is always so silent now -- but I was imagining I heard clear voices and gay , childish sounds coming up as I used to . I could hear Jem 's whistle and Walter 's yodel , and the twins ' laughter , and for just a few blessed minutes I forgot about the guns on the Western front , and had a little false , sweet happiness . '' The doctor did not answer . Sometimes his work tricked him into forgetting for a few moments the Western front , but not often . There was a good deal of grey now in his still thick curls that had not been there two years ago . Yet he smiled down into the starry eyes he loved -- the eyes that had once been so full of laughter , and now seemed always full of unshed tears . Susan wandered by with a hoe in her hand and her second best bonnet on her head .
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