`` Children ! Jem is twenty-one and Faith is nineteen , '' retorted Miss Cornelia . `` You must not forget , Susan , that we old folks are not the only grown-up people in the world . '' Outraged Susan , who detested any reference to her age -- not from vanity but from a haunting dread that people might come to think her too old to work -- returned to her `` Notes . '' '' ` Carl Meredith and Shirley Blythe came home last Friday evening from Queen 's Academy . We understand that Carl will be in charge of the school at Harbour Head next year and we are sure he will be a popular and successful teacher . ' '' `` He will teach the children all there is to know about bugs , anyhow , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` He is through with Queen 's now and Mr. Meredith and Rosemary wanted him to go right on to Redmond in the fall , but Carl has a very independent streak in him and means to earn part of his own way through college . He 'll be all the better for it . '' '' ` Walter Blythe , who has been teaching for the past two years at Lowbridge , has resigned , ' '' read Susan . '' ` He intends going to Redmond this fall . ' '' `` Is Walter quite strong enough for Redmond yet ? '' queried Miss Cornelia anxiously . `` We hope that he will be by the fall , '' said Mrs. Blythe . `` An idle summer in the open air and sunshine will do a great deal for him . '' `` Typhoid is a hard thing to get over , '' said Miss Cornelia emphatically , `` especially when one has had such a close shave as Walter had . I think he 'd do well to stay out of college another year . But then he 's so ambitious . Are Di and Nan going too ? '' `` Yes .
They both wanted to teach another year but Gilbert thinks they had better go XXXXX Redmond this fall . ''
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