He is the new Methodist minister 's son and very nice and clever , and would be quite handsome if it were not for his nose . It is a really dreadful nose . When he talks of commonplace things it does not matter so much , but when he talks of poetry and ideals the contrast between his nose and his conversation is too much for me and I want to shriek with laughter . It is really not fair , because everything he said was perfectly charming and if somebody like Kenneth had said it I would have been enraptured . When I listened to him with my eyes cast down I was quite fascinated ; but as soon as I looked up and saw his nose the spell was broken . He wants to enlist , too , but ca n't because he is only seventeen . Mrs. Elliott met us as we were walking through the village and could not have looked more horrified if she caught me walking with the Kaiser himself . Mrs. Elliott detests the Methodists and all their works . Father says it is an obsession with her . '' About 1st September there was an exodus from Ingleside and the manse . Faith , Nan , Di and Walter left for Redmond ; Carl betook himself to his Harbour Head school and Shirley was off to Queen 's . Rilla was left alone at Ingleside and would have been very lonely if she had had time to be . She missed Walter keenly ; since their talk in Rainbow Valley they had grown very near together and Rilla discussed problems with Walter which she never mentioned to others . But she was so busy with the Junior Reds and her baby that there was rarely a spare minute for loneliness ; sometimes , after she went to bed , she cried a little in her pillow over Walter 's absence and Jem at Valcartier and Kenneth 's unromantic farewell message , but she was generally asleep before the tears got fairly started . `` Shall I make arrangements to have the baby sent to Hopetown ? '' the doctor asked one day two weeks after the baby 's arrival at Ingleside . For a moment Rilla was tempted to say `` Yes . '' The baby could be sent to Hopetown -- it would be decently looked after -- she could have her free days and untrammelled nights back again . But -- but -- that poor young mother who had n't wanted it to go to the asylum ! Rilla could n't get that out of her thoughts .
And that very morning she discovered that the baby had gained eight ounces since its coming XXXXX Ingleside .
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