It 's very short . Poor girl , she must be under a terrible strain . Gilbert Blythe , there are heaps of things I long to say to you , only it would be mean . '' `` Miss Cornelia says them for you , '' said Gilbert with a rueful smile . `` She combs me down every time I encounter her . She makes it plain to me that she regards me as little better than a murderer , and that she thinks it a great pity that Dr. Dave ever let me step into his shoes . She even told me that the Methodist doctor over the harbor was to be preferred before me . With Miss Cornelia the force of condemnation can no further go . '' `` If Cornelia Bryant was sick , it would not be Doctor Dave or the Methodist doctor she would send for , '' sniffed Susan . `` She would have you out of your hard-earned bed in the middle of the night , doctor , dear , if she took a spell of misery , that she would . And then she would likely say your bill was past all reason . But do not mind her , doctor , dear . It takes all kinds of people to make a world . '' No further word came from Leslie for some time . The May days crept away in a sweet succession and the shores of Four Winds Harbor greened and bloomed and purpled . One day in late May Gilbert came home to be met by Susan in the stable yard . `` I am afraid something has upset Mrs. Doctor , doctor , dear , '' she said mysteriously . `` She got a letter this afternoon and since then she has just been walking round the garden and talking to herself . You know it is not good for her to be on her feet so much , doctor , dear . She did not see fit to tell me what her news was , and I am no pry , doctor , dear , and never was , but it is plain something has upset her .
And it is not good XXXXX her to be upset . ''
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