He says old P.E.I. is good enough for him and he will continue to farm for his aunt , Mrs. Alec Davis . ' '' Susan looked keenly at Miss Cornelia . `` I have heard , Mrs. Marshall Elliott , that Miller is courting Mary Vance . '' This shot pierced Miss Cornelia 's armour . Her sonsy face flushed . `` I wo n't have Miller Douglas hanging round Mary , '' she said crisply . `` He comes of a low family . His father was a sort of outcast from the Douglases -- they never really counted him in -- and his mother was one of those terrible Dillons from the Harbour Head . '' `` I think I have heard , Mrs. Marshall Elliott , that Mary Vance 's own parents were not what you could call aristocratic . '' `` Mary Vance has had a good bringing up and she is a smart , clever , capable girl , '' retorted Miss Cornelia . `` She is not going to throw herself away on Miller Douglas , believe me ! She knows my opinion on the matter and Mary has never disobeyed me yet . '' `` Well , I do not think you need worry , Mrs. Marshall Elliott , for Mrs. Alec Davis is as much against it as you could be , and says no nephew of hers is ever going to marry a nameless nobody like Mary Vance . '' Susan returned to her mutton , feeling that she had got the best of it in this passage of arms , and read another `` note . '' '' ` We are pleased to hear that Miss Oliver has been engaged as teacher for another year . Miss Oliver will spend her well-earned vacation at her home in Lowbridge . ' '' `` I 'm so glad Gertrude is going to stay , '' said Mrs. Blythe . `` We would miss her horribly . And she has an excellent influence over Rilla who worships her . They are chums , in spite of the difference in their ages . ''
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