He spent about a month here . Leslie never saw him ; she was only about eight or nine then and I remember now that she spent that whole winter over harbor with her grandmother West . Captain Jim was away , too -- that was the winter he was wrecked on the Magdalens . I do n't suppose either he or Leslie had ever heard about the Nova Scotia cousin looking so much like Dick . Nobody ever thought of him when Captain Jim brought Dick -- George , I should say -- home . Of course , we all thought Dick had changed considerable -- he 'd got so lumpish and fat . But we put that down to what had happened to him , and no doubt that was the reason , for , as I 've said , George was n't fat to begin with either . And there was no other way we could have guessed , for the man 's senses were clean gone . I ca n't see that it is any wonder we were all deceived . But it 's a staggering thing . And Leslie has sacrificed the best years of her life to nursing a man who had n't any claim on her ! Oh , drat the men ! No matter what they do , it 's the wrong thing . And no matter who they are , it 's somebody they should n't be . They do exasperate me . '' `` Gilbert and Captain Jim are men , and it is through them that the truth has been discovered at last , '' said Anne . `` Well , I admit that , '' conceded Miss Cornelia reluctantly . `` I 'm sorry I raked the doctor off so . It 's the first time in my life I 've ever felt ashamed of anything I said to a man . I do n't know as I shall tell him so , though .
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