He surpassed himself that time . You can smile , Anne , and I do n't deny I 've chuckled some over it since myself , but at the time I felt almost as much mortified as Emily . I went out and carried Ginger to the barn . I ca n't say I enjoyed the meal . I knew by the look of Emily that there was trouble brewing for Ginger and James A . When the folks went away I started for the cow pasture and on the way I did some thinking . I felt sorry for Emily and kind of fancied I had n't been so thoughtful of her as I might ; and besides , I wondered if the ministers would think that Ginger had learned his vocabulary from me . The long and short of it was , I decided that Ginger would have to be mercifully disposed of and when I 'd druv the cows home I went in to tell Emily so . But there was no Emily and there was a letter on the table ... just according to the rule in story books . Emily writ that I 'd have to choose between her and Ginger ; she 'd gone back to her own house and there she would stay till I went and told her I 'd got rid of that parrot . `` I was all riled up , Anne , and I said she might stay till doomsday if she waited for that ; and I stuck to it . I packed up her belongings and sent them after her . It made an awful lot of talk ... Scottsford was pretty near as bad as Avonlea for gossip ... and everybody sympathized with Emily . It kept me all cross and cantankerous and I saw I 'd have to get out or I 'd never have any peace . I concluded I 'd come to the Island . I 'd been here when I was a boy and I liked it ; but Emily had always said she would n't live in a place where folks were scared to walk out after dark for fear they 'd fall off the edge . So , just to be contrary , I moved over here . And that 's all there is to it . I had n't ever heard a word from or about Emily till I come home from the back field Saturday and found her scrubbing the floor but with the first decent dinner I 'd had since she left me all ready on the table . She told me to eat it first and then we 'd talk ... by which I concluded that Emily had learned some lessons about getting along with a man .
So she 's here and she 's going to stay ... seeing XXXXX Ginger 's dead and the Island 's some bigger than she thought .
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