She knelt down by the stripped bed . `` Mother , '' she said aloud , `` I have kept my promise . '' When she tried to rise , long after , she staggered and fell across the bed , with her hand pressed on her heart . Old Giles Blewett found her there in the morning . There was a smile on her face . XIII . THE CONSCIENCE CASE OF DAVID BELL Eben Bell came in with an armful of wood and banged it cheerfully down in the box behind the glowing Waterloo stove , which was coloring the heart of the little kitchen 's gloom with tremulous , rose-red whirls of light . `` There , sis , that 's the last chore on my list . Bob 's milking . Nothing more for me to do but put on my white collar for meeting . Avonlea is more than lively since the evangelist came , ai n't it , though ! '' Mollie Bell nodded . She was curling her hair before the tiny mirror that hung on the whitewashed wall and distorted her round , pink-and-white face into a grotesque caricature . `` Wonder who 'll stand up to-night , '' said Eben reflectively , sitting down on the edge of the wood-box . `` There ai n't many sinners left in Avonlea -- only a few hardened chaps like myself . '' `` You should n't talk like that , '' said Mollie rebukingly . `` What if father heard you ? '' `` Father would n't hear me if I shouted it in his ear , '' returned Eben . `` He goes around , these days , like a man in a dream and a mighty bad dream at that . Father has always been a good man .
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