`` Listen to this , Mrs. Dr. dear . ` Mrs. Sophia Crawford has given up her house at Lowbridge and will make her home in future with her niece , Mrs. Albert Crawford . ' Why that is my own cousin Sophia , Mrs. Dr. dear . We quarrelled when we were children over who should get a Sunday-school card with the words ` God is Love , ' wreathed in rosebuds , on it , and have never spoken to each other since . And now she is coming to live right across the road from us . '' `` You will have to make up the old quarrel , Susan . It will never do to be at outs with your neighbours . '' `` Cousin Sophia began the quarrel , so she can begin the making up also , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan loftily . `` If she does I hope I am a good enough Christian to meet her half-way . She is not a cheerful person and has been a wet blanket all her life . The last time I saw her , her face had a thousand wrinkles -- maybe more , maybe less -- from worrying and foreboding . She howled dreadful at her first husband 's funeral but she married again in less than a year . The next note , I see , describes the special service in our church last Sunday night and says the decorations were very beautiful . '' `` Speaking of that reminds me that Mr. Pryor strongly disapproves of flowers in church , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` I always said there would be trouble when that man moved here from Lowbridge . He should never have been put in as elder -- it was a mistake and we shall live to rue it , believe me ! I have heard that he has said that if the girls continue to ` mess up the pulpit with weeds ' that he will not go to church . '' `` The church got on very well before old Whiskers-on-the-moon came to the Glen and it is my opinion it will get on without him after he is gone , '' said Susan . `` Who in the world ever gave him that ridiculous nickname ? '' asked Mrs. Blythe .
`` Why , the Lowbridge boys have called him that ever XXXXX I can remember , Mrs. Dr. dear -- I suppose because his face is so round and red , with that fringe of sandy whisker about it .
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