I shall be away a fortnight if you can spare me so long . '' `` You certainly deserve a good holiday , Susan . Better take a month -- that is the proper length for a honeymoon . '' `` No , Mrs. Dr. dear , a fortnight is all I require . Besides , I must be home for at least three weeks before Christmas to make the proper preparations . We will have a Christmas that is a Christmas this year , Mrs. Dr. dear . Do you think there is any chance of our boys being home for it ? '' `` No , I think not , Susan . Both Jem and Shirley write that they do n't expect to be home before spring -- it may be even midsummer before Shirley comes . But Carl Meredith will be home , and Nan and Di , and we will have a grand celebration once more . We 'll set chairs for all , Susan , as you did our first war Christmas -- yes , for all -- for my dear lad whose chair must always be vacant , as well as for the others , Susan . '' `` It is not likely I would forget to set his place , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan , wiping her eyes as she departed to pack up for her `` honeymoon . '' CHAPTER XXXV `` RILLA-MY-RILLA ! '' Carl Meredith and Miller Douglas came home just before Christmas and Glen St. Mary met them at the station with a brass band borrowed from Lowbridge and speeches of home manufacture . Miller was brisk and beaming in spite of his wooden leg ; he had developed into a broad-shouldered , imposing looking fellow and the D. C. Medal he wore reconciled Miss Cornelia to the shortcomings of his pedigree to such a degree that she tacitly recognized his engagement to Mary . The latter put on a few airs -- especially when Carter Flagg took Miller into his store as head clerk -- but nobody grudged them to her . `` Of course farming 's out of the question for us now , '' she told Rilla , `` but Miller thinks he 'll like storekeeping fine once he gets used to a quiet life again , and Carter Flagg will be a more agreeable boss than old Kitty . We 're going to be married in the fall and live in the old Mead house with the bay windows and the mansard roof . I 've always thought that the handsomest house in the Glen , but never did I dream I 'd ever live there . We 're only renting it , of course , but if things go as we expect and Carter Flagg takes Miller into partnership we 'll own it some day .
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