Her face was haggard and she looked ten years older . `` Have we all come out of that alive ? '' she asked solemnly . `` You bet we have , '' piped Davy cheerfully , quite his own man again . `` I was n't a bit scared either ... only just at the first . It come on a fellow so sudden . I made up my mind quick as a wink that I would n't fight Teddy Sloane Monday as I 'd promised ; but now maybe I will . Say , Dora , was you scared ? '' `` Yes , I was a little scared , '' said Dora primly , `` but I held tight to Anne 's hand and said my prayers over and over again . '' `` Well , I 'd have said my prayers too if I 'd have thought of it , '' said Davy ; `` but , '' he added triumphantly , `` you see I came through just as safe as you for all I did n't say them . '' Anne got Marilla a glassful of her potent currant wine ... HOW potent it was Anne , in her earlier days , had had all too good reason to know ... and then they went to the door to look out on the strange scene . Far and wide was a white carpet , knee deep , of hailstones ; drifts of them were heaped up under the eaves and on the steps . When , three or four days later , those hailstones melted , the havoc they had wrought was plainly seen , for every green growing thing in the field or garden was cut off . Not only was every blossom stripped from the apple trees but great boughs and branches were wrenched away . And out of the two hundred trees set out by the Improvers by far the greater number were snapped off or torn to shreds . `` Can it possibly be the same world it was an hour ago ? '' asked Anne , dazedly . `` It MUST have taken longer than that to play such havoc . '' `` The like of this has never been known in Prince Edward Island , '' said Marilla , `` never . I remember when I was a girl there was a bad storm , but it was nothing to this .
We 'll hear XXXXX terrible destruction , you may be sure . ''
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