Ruby Gillis was sleeping in the white-heaped graveyard ; Jane Andrews was teaching a school on western prairies . Gilbert , to be sure , was still faithful , and waded up to Green Gables every possible evening . But Gilbert 's visits were not what they once were . Anne almost dreaded them . It was very disconcerting to look up in the midst of a sudden silence and find Gilbert 's hazel eyes fixed upon her with a quite unmistakable expression in their grave depths ; and it was still more disconcerting to find herself blushing hotly and uncomfortably under his gaze , just as if -- just as if -- well , it was very embarrassing . Anne wished herself back at Patty 's Place , where there was always somebody else about to take the edge off a delicate situation . At Green Gables Marilla went promptly to Mrs. Lynde 's domain when Gilbert came and insisted on taking the twins with her . The significance of this was unmistakable and Anne was in a helpless fury over it . Davy , however , was perfectly happy . He reveled in getting out in the morning and shoveling out the paths to the well and henhouse . He gloried in the Christmas-tide delicacies which Marilla and Mrs. Lynde vied with each other in preparing for Anne , and he was reading an enthralling tale , in a school library book , of a wonderful hero who seemed blessed with a miraculous faculty for getting into scrapes from which he was usually delivered by an earthquake or a volcanic explosion , which blew him high and dry out of his troubles , landed him in a fortune , and closed the story with proper ECLAT . `` I tell you it 's a bully story , Anne , '' he said ecstatically . `` I 'd ever so much rather read it than the Bible . '' `` Would you ? '' smiled Anne . Davy peered curiously at her . `` You do n't seem a bit shocked , Anne . Mrs. Lynde was awful shocked when I said it to her . '' `` No , I 'm not shocked , Davy . I think it 's quite natural that a nine-year-old boy would sooner read an adventure story than the Bible .
But when you are older I hope and think XXXXX you will realize what a wonderful book the Bible is . ''
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