`` She will be coming up to unload three months ' gossip on us . '' `` I hope so , '' said Anne , hugging her knees . `` I 'm starving for Glen St. Mary gossip , Susan . I hope Miss Cornelia can tell me everything that has happened while we 've been away -- EVERYTHING -- who has got born , or married , or drunk ; who has died , or gone away , or come , or fought , or lost a cow , or found a beau . It 's so delightful to be home again with all the dear Glen folks , and I want to know all about them . Why , I remember wondering , as I walked through Westminster Abbey which of her two especial beaux Millicent Drew would finally marry . Do you know , Susan , I have a dreadful suspicion that I love gossip . '' `` Well , of course , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' admitted Susan , `` every proper woman likes to hear the news . I am rather interested in Millicent Drew 's case myself . I never had a beau , much less two , and I do not mind now , for being an old maid does not hurt when you get used to it . Millicent 's hair always looks to me as if she had swept it up with a broom . But the men do not seem to mind that . '' `` They see only her pretty , piquant , mocking , little face , Susan . '' `` That may very well be , Mrs. Dr. dear . The Good Book says that favour is deceitful and beauty is vain , but I should not have minded finding that out for myself , if it had been so ordained . I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels , but what good will it do us then ? Speaking of gossip , however , they do say that poor Mrs. Harrison Miller over harbour tried to hang herself last week . '' `` Oh , Susan ! '' `` Calm yourself , Mrs. Dr. dear . She did not succeed .
But I really do not blame her for trying , XXXXX her husband is a terrible man .
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