Not many girls would have been cute enough to think of writing it -- and all punctuated so nicely and not one word misspelled . Just let me hear any Methodist say one word about it -- though all the same I 'll never forgive Joe Vickers -- believe ME ! Where are the rest of your small fry to-night ? '' `` Walter and the twins are in Rainbow Valley . Jem is studying in the garret . '' `` They are all crazy about Rainbow Valley . Mary Vance thinks it 's the only place in the world . She 'd be off up here every evening if I 'd let her . But I do n't encourage her in gadding . Besides , I miss the creature when she is n't around , Anne dearie . I never thought I 'd get so fond of her . Not but what I see her faults and try to correct them . But she has never said one saucy word to me since she came to my house and she is a GREAT help -- for when all is said and done , Anne dearie , I am not so young as I once was , and there is no sense denying it . I was fifty-nine my last birthday . I do n't FEEL it , but there is no gainsaying the Family Bible . '' CHAPTER XXVII . A SACRED CONCERT In spite of Miss Cornelia 's new point of view she could not help feeling a little disturbed over the next performance of the manse children . In public she carried off the situation splendidly , saying to all the gossips the substance of what Anne had said in daffodil time , and saying it so pointedly and forcibly that her hearers found themselves feeling rather foolish and began to think that , after all , they were making too much of a childish prank . But in private Miss Cornelia allowed herself the relief of bemoaning it to Anne . `` Anne dearie , they had a CONCERT IN THE GRAVEYARD last Thursday evening , while the Methodist prayer meeting was going on .
There they sat , on Hezekiah Pollock 's tombstone , and sang XXXXX a solid hour .
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