He is not to be mixed up with estimable old ladies . `` My left-hand neighbor at the table is Mrs. Phinney . She always speaks with a wailing , dolorous voice -- you are nervously expecting her to burst into tears every moment . She gives you the impression that life to her is indeed a vale of tears , and that a smile , never to speak of a laugh , is a frivolity truly reprehensible . She has a worse opinion of me than Aunt Jamesina , and she does n't love me hard to atone for it , as Aunty J. does , either . `` Miss Maria Grimsby sits cati-corner from me . The first day I came I remarked to Miss Maria that it looked a little like rain -- and Miss Maria laughed . I said the road from the station was very pretty -- and Miss Maria laughed . I said there seemed to be a few mosquitoes left yet -- and Miss Maria laughed . I said that Prospect Point was as beautiful as ever -- and Miss Maria laughed . If I were to say to Miss Maria , ` My father has hanged himself , my mother has taken poison , my brother is in the penitentiary , and I am in the last stages of consumption , ' Miss Maria would laugh . She ca n't help it -- she was born so ; but is very sad and awful . `` The fifth old lady is Mrs. Grant . She is a sweet old thing ; but she never says anything but good of anybody and so she is a very uninteresting conversationalist . `` And now for Jonas , Anne . `` That first day I came I saw a young man sitting opposite me at the table , smiling at me as if he had known me from my cradle . I knew , for Uncle Mark had told me , that his name was Jonas Blake , that he was a Theological Student from St. Columbia , and that he had taken charge of the Point Prospect Mission Church for the summer . `` He is a very ugly young man -- really , the ugliest young man I 've ever seen . He has a big , loose-jointed figure with absurdly long legs . His hair is tow-color and lank , his eyes are green , and his mouth is big , and his ears -- but I never think about his ears if I can help it .
`` He has a lovely voice -- XXXXX you shut your eyes he is adorable -- and he certainly has a beautiful soul and disposition .
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