Parliamentary rules and regulations were forgotten , and Anne , in despair , gave up trying to keep minutes at all . Everybody talked at once and fearful was the hubbub . `` Oh , let us keep calm , '' implored Anne , who was the most excited of them all , `` and try to think of some way of preventing him . '' `` I do n't know how you 're going to prevent him , '' exclaimed Jane bitterly . `` Everybody knows what Judson Parker is . He 'd do ANYTHING for money . He has n't a SPARK of public spirit or ANY sense of the beautiful . '' The prospect looked rather unpromising . Judson Parker and his sister were the only Parkers in Avonlea , so that no leverage could be exerted by family connections . Martha Parker was a lady of all too certain age who disapproved of young people in general and the Improvers in particular . Judson was a jovial , smooth-spoken man , so uniformly goodnatured and bland that it was surprising how few friends he had . Perhaps he had got the better in too many business transactions ... which seldom makes for popularity . He was reputed to be very `` sharp '' and it was the general opinion that he `` had n't much principle . '' `` If Judson Parker has a chance to ` turn an honest penny , ' as he says himself , he 'll never lose it , '' declared Fred Wright . `` Is there NOBODY who has any influence over him ? '' asked Anne despairingly . `` He goes to see Louisa Spencer at White Sands , '' suggested Carrie Sloane . `` Perhaps she could coax him not to rent his fences . '' `` Not she , '' said Gilbert emphatically . `` I know Louisa Spencer well .
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