asked Miss Cornelia , unaware of the hideous answer to her question which destiny was even then preparing . `` Somebody is always murdering or being murdered in those Balkan States . It 's their normal condition and I do n't really think that our papers ought to print such shocking things . The Enterprise is getting far too sensational with its big headlines . Well , I must be getting home . No , Anne dearie , it 's no use asking me to stay to supper . Marshall has got to thinking that if I 'm not home for a meal it 's not worth eating -- just like a man . So off I go . Merciful goodness , Anne dearie , what is the matter with that cat ? Is he having a fit ? '' -- this , as Doc suddenly bounded to the rug at Miss Cornelia 's feet , laid back his ears , swore at her , and then disappeared with one fierce leap through the window . `` Oh , no . He 's merely turning into Mr. Hyde -- which means that we shall have rain or high wind before morning . Doc is as good as a barometer . '' `` Well , I am thankful he has gone on the rampage outside this time and not into my kitchen , '' said Susan . `` And I am going out to see about supper . With such a crowd as we have at Ingleside now it behooves us to think about our meals betimes . '' CHAPTER II DEW OF MORNING Outside , the Ingleside lawn was full of golden pools of sunshine and plots of alluring shadows . Rilla Blythe was swinging in the hammock under the big Scotch pine , Gertrude Oliver sat at its roots beside her , and Walter was stretched at full length on the grass , lost in a romance of chivalry wherein old heroes and beauties of dead and gone centuries lived vividly again for him . Rilla was the `` baby '' of the Blythe family and was in a chronic state of secret indignation because nobody believed she was grown up .
She was so nearly fifteen that she called herself that , and she was quite as tall as Di and Nan ; also , she was nearly as pretty as Susan believed her XXXXX be .
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