Highland Sandy 's quaint phrase struck the doctor as perfectly expressive . Ingleside did seem very big and empty that night . Yet Shirley had been away all winter except for week-ends , and had always been a quiet fellow even when home . Was it because he had been the only one left that his going seemed to leave such a huge blank -- that every room seemed vacant and deserted -- that the very trees on the lawn seemed to be trying to comfort each other with caresses of freshly-budding boughs for the loss of the last of the little lads who had romped under them in childhood ? Susan worked very hard all day and late into the night . When she had wound the kitchen clock and put Dr. Jekyll out , none too gently , she stood for a little while on the doorstep , looking down the Glen , which lay tranced in faint , silvery light from a sinking young moon . But Susan did not see the familiar hills and harbour . She was looking at the aviation camp in Kingsport where Shirley was that night . `` He called me ` Mother Susan , ' '' she was thinking . `` Well , all our men folk have gone now -- Jem and Walter and Shirley and Jerry and Carl . And none of them had to be driven to it . So we have a right to be proud . But pride -- '' Susan sighed bitterly -- `` pride is cold company and that there is no gainsaying . '' The moon sank lower into a black cloud in the west , the Glen went out in an eclipse of sudden shadow -- and thousands of miles away the Canadian boys in khaki -- the living and the dead -- were in possession of Vimy Ridge . Vimy Ridge is a name written in crimson and gold on the Canadian annals of the Great War . `` The British could n't take it and the French could n't take it , '' said a German prisoner to his captors , `` but you Canadians are such fools that you do n't know when a place ca n't be taken ! '' So the `` fools '' took it -- and paid the price . Jerry Meredith was seriously wounded at Vimy Ridge -- shot in the back , the telegram said . `` Poor Nan , '' said Mrs. Blythe , when the news came . She thought of her own happy girlhood at old Green Gables .
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