This is a discovery worth making . To think that I 've lived within a mile of this place for six years and have never seen it before ! Now , Diana . '' `` Long ago , '' began Diana , `` this farm belonged to old Mr. David Gray . He did n't live on it ... he lived where Silas Sloane lives now . He had one son , Jordan , and he went up to Boston one winter to work and while he was there he fell in love with a girl named Hester Murray . She was working in a store and she hated it . She 'd been brought up in the country and she always wanted to get back . When Jordan asked her to marry him she said she would if he 'd take her away to some quiet spot where she 'd see nothing but fields and trees . So he brought her to Avonlea . Mrs. Lynde said he was taking a fearful risk in marrying a Yankee , and it 's certain that Hester was very delicate and a very poor housekeeper ; but mother says she was very pretty and sweet and Jordan just worshipped the ground she walked on . Well , Mr. Gray gave Jordan this farm and he built a little house back here and Jordan and Hester lived in it for four years . She never went out much and hardly anybody went to see her except mother and Mrs. Lynde . Jordan made her this garden and she was crazy about it and spent most of her time in it . She was n't much of a housekeeper but she had a knack with flowers . And then she got sick . Mother says she thinks she was in consumption before she ever came here . She never really laid up but just grew weaker and weaker all the time . Jordan would n't have anybody to wait on her . He did it all himself and mother says he was as tender and gentle as a woman .
Every day he 'd wrap her XXXXX a shawl and carry her out to the garden and she 'd lie there on a bench quite happy .
So about as if in of on that while with