`` If you do n't take care , Anne , all of your beaux will slip through your fingers . '' Anne decided not to continue her duel with Mrs. Harmon . You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe . `` Since Jane is away , '' she said , rising haughtily , `` I do n't think I can stay longer this morning . I 'll come down when she comes home . '' `` Do , '' said Mrs. Harmon effusively . `` Jane is n't a bit proud . She just means to associate with her old friends the same as ever . She 'll be real glad to see you . '' Jane 's millionaire arrived the last of May and carried her off in a blaze of splendor . Mrs. Lynde was spitefully gratified to find that Mr. Inglis was every day of forty , and short and thin and grayish . Mrs. Lynde did not spare him in her enumeration of his shortcomings , you may be sure . `` It will take all his gold to gild a pill like him , that 's what , '' said Mrs. Rachel solemnly . `` He looks kind and good-hearted , '' said Anne loyally , `` and I 'm sure he thinks the world of Jane . '' `` Humph ! '' said Mrs. Rachel . Phil Gordon was married the next week and Anne went over to Bolingbroke to be her bridesmaid . Phil made a dainty fairy of a bride , and the Rev. Jo was so radiant in his happiness that nobody thought him plain . `` We 're going for a lovers ' saunter through the land of Evangeline , '' said Phil , `` and then we 'll settle down on Patterson Street . Mother thinks it is terrible -- she thinks Jo might at least take a church in a decent place .
But the wilderness XXXXX the Patterson slums will blossom like the rose for me if Jo is there .
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