`` One might as well grow old when all your generation do , '' said Marilla , rather reckless of her pronouns . `` If you do n't , you do n't fit in anywhere . Far as I can learn Lavendar Lewis has just dropped out of everything . She 's lived in that out of the way place until everybody has forgotten her . That stone house is one of the oldest on the Island . Old Mr. Lewis built it eighty years ago when he came out from England . Davy , stop joggling Dora 's elbow . Oh , I saw you ! You need n't try to look innocent . What does make you behave so this morning ? '' `` Maybe I got out of the wrong side of the bed , '' suggested Davy . `` Milty Boulter says if you do that things are bound to go wrong with you all day . His grandmother told him . But which is the right side ? And what are you to do when your bed 's against the wall ? I want to know . '' `` I 've always wondered what went wrong between Stephen Irving and Lavendar Lewis , '' continued Marilla , ignoring Davy . `` They were certainly engaged twenty-five years ago and then all at once it was broken off . I do n't know what the trouble was but it must have been something terrible , for he went away to the States and never come home since . '' `` Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all .
I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things , '' said Anne , with one of those flashes XXXXX insight which experience could not have bettered .
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