If I had got married in such a fashion , Charlotte Wheeler , I 'd be ashamed to look anybody in the face for the rest of my natural life ! '' Miss Rosetta was so interested in thus laying down the law to Charlotte , and in planning out the future life of Jane 's baby , that she did n't find the journey to Charlottetown so long or tedious as might have been expected , considering her haste . She soon found her way to the house where her cousin lived . There , to her dismay and real sorrow , she learned that Mrs. Roberts had died at four o'clock that afternoon . `` She seemed dreadful anxious to live until she heard from some of her folks out in Avonlea , '' said the woman who gave Miss Rosetta the information . `` She had written to them about her little girl . She was my sister-in-law , and she lived with me ever since her husband died . I 've done my best for her ; but I 've a big family of my own and I ca n't see how I 'm to keep the child . Poor Jane looked and longed for some one to come from Avonlea , but she could n't hold out . A patient , suffering creature she was ! '' `` I 'm her cousin , '' said Miss Rosetta , wiping her eyes , `` and I have come for the baby . I 'll take it home with me after the funeral ; and , if you please , Mrs. Gordon , let me see it right away , so it can get accustomed to me . Poor Jane ! I wish I could have got here in time to see her , she and I were such friends long ago . We were far more intimate and confidential than ever her and Charlotte was . Charlotte knows that , too ! '' The vim with which Miss Rosetta snapped this out rather amazed Mrs. Gordon , who could n't understand it at all . But she took Miss Rosetta upstairs to the room where the baby was sleeping . `` Oh , the little darling , '' cried Miss Rosetta , all her old maidishness and oddity falling away from her like a garment , and all her innate and denied motherhood shining out in her face like a transforming illumination . `` Oh , the sweet , dear , pretty little thing ! ''
The baby was a darling -- a six-months ' old beauty XXXXX little golden ringlets curling and glistening all over its tiny head .
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