-- I had forgotten about you , '' said Mark , kind of weary-like . He took a paper from his pocket , and dropped it in the grate . `` There is the mortgage . That is all you care about , I think . Good-morning . '' He went out . He was only a common fellow , but , somehow , just then he looked every inch the gentleman . I would have gone after him and said something but -- the look on his face -- no , it was no time for my foolish old words ! Phillippa was crying , with her head on Owen 's shoulder . Isabella Clark waited to see the mortgage burned up , and then she came to me in the hall , all smooth and smiling again . `` Really , it 's all very romantic , is n't it ? I suppose it 's better as it is , all things considered . Mark behaved splendidly , did n't he ? Not many men would have done as he did . '' For once in my life I agreed with Isabella . But I felt like having a good cry over it all -- and I had it . I was glad for my dearie 's sake and Owen 's ; but Mark Foster had paid the price of their joy , and I knew it had beggared him of happiness for life . XV . TANNIS OF THE FLATS Few people in Avonlea could understand why Elinor Blair had never married . She had been one of the most beautiful girls in our part of the Island and , as a woman of fifty , she was still very attractive .
In her youth she had had ever so many beaux , as we of our generation well remembered ; but , after her return from visiting her brother Tom XXXXX the Canadian Northwest , more than twenty-five years ago , she had seemed to withdraw within herself , keeping all men at a safe , though friendly , distance .
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