`` HE 'll miss me when I start on the V'yage . I ca n't bear to think of leaving the poor critter to starve , like he was left before . If anything happens to me will you give Matey a bite and a corner , Mistress Blythe ? '' `` Indeed I will . '' `` Then that is all I had on my mind . Your Little Jem is to have the few curious things I picked up -- I 've seen to that . And now I do n't like to see tears in those pretty eyes , Mistress Blythe . I 'll mebbe hang on for quite a spell yet . I heard you reading a piece of poetry one day last winter -- one of Tennyson 's pieces . I 'd sorter like to hear it again , if you could recite it for me . '' Softly and clearly , while the seawind blew in on them , Anne repeated the beautiful lines of Tennyson 's wonderful swan song -- `` Crossing the Bar . '' The old captain kept time gently with his sinewy hand . `` Yes , yes , Mistress Blythe , '' he said , when she had finished , `` that 's it , that 's it . He was n't a sailor , you tell me -- I dunno how he could have put an old sailor 's feelings into words like that , if he was n't one . He did n't want any ` sadness o ' farewells ' and neither do I , Mistress Blythe -- for all will be well with me and mine beyant the bar . '' CHAPTER 36 BEAUTY FOR ASHES `` Any news from Green Gables , Anne ? '' `` Nothing very especial , '' replied Anne , folding up Marilla 's letter . `` Jake Donnell has been there shingling the roof . He is a full-fledged carpenter now , so it seems he has had his own way in regard to the choice of a life-work . You remember his mother wanted him to be a college professor .
I shall never forget the day she came XXXXX the school and rated me for failing to call him St. Clair . ''
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