CHAPTER 36 BEAUTY FOR ASHES `` Any news from Green Gables , Anne ? '' `` Nothing very especial , '' replied Anne , folding up Marilla 's letter . `` Jake Donnell has been there shingling the roof . He is a full-fledged carpenter now , so it seems he has had his own way in regard to the choice of a life-work . You remember his mother wanted him to be a college professor . I shall never forget the day she came to the school and rated me for failing to call him St. Clair . '' `` Does anyone ever call him that now ? '' `` Evidently not . It seems that he has completely lived it down . Even his mother has succumbed . I always thought that a boy with Jake 's chin and mouth would get his own way in the end . Diana writes me that Dora has a beau . Just think of it -- that child ! '' `` Dora is seventeen , '' said Gilbert . `` Charlie Sloane and I were both mad about you when you were seventeen , Anne . '' `` Really , Gilbert , we must be getting on in years , '' said Anne , with a half-rueful smile , `` when children who were six when we thought ourselves grown up are old enough now to have beaux . Dora 's is Ralph Andrews -- Jane 's brother . I remember him as a little , round , fat , white-headed fellow who was always at the foot of his class . But I understand he is quite a fine-looking young man now . '' `` Dora will probably marry young .
She 's of the same type XXXXX Charlotta the Fourth -- she 'll never miss her first chance for fear she might not get another . ''
FOR as at from in of so that to with