What IS to be done ? '' asked Miss Cornelia despairingly . Miss Cornelia had vowed that she was done with worrying over the pranks of the manse children , but she went on worrying just the same . Anne led the way to the veranda , where Susan was knitting , with Shirley and Rilla conning their primers on either side . Susan was already on her second pair of stockings for Faith . Susan never worried over poor humanity . She did what in her lay for its betterment and serenely left the rest to the Higher Powers . `` Cornelia Elliott thinks she was born to run this world , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' she had once said to Anne , `` and so she is always in a stew over something . I have never thought I was , and so I go calmly along . Not but what it has sometimes occurred to me that things might be run a little better than they are . But it is not for us poor worms to nourish such thoughts . They only make us uncomfortable and do not get us anywhere . '' `` I do n't see that anything can be done -- now -- '' said Anne , pulling out a nice , cushiony chair for Miss Cornelia . `` But how in the world did Mr. Vickers allow that letter to be printed ? Surely he should have known better . '' `` Why , he 's away , Anne dearie -- he 's been away to New Brunswick for a week . And that young scalawag of a Joe Vickers is editing the Journal in his absence . Of course , Mr. Vickers would never have put it in , even if he is a Methodist , but Joe would just think it a good joke . As you say , I do n't suppose there is anything to be done now , only live it down . But if I ever get Joe Vickers cornered somewhere I 'll give him a talking to he wo n't forget in a hurry .
I wanted Marshall XXXXX stop our subscription to the Journal instantly , but he only laughed and said that to-day 's issue was the only one that had had anything readable in it for a year .
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