He was , '' said Susan earnestly , `` the very cutest little corpse I ever laid my eyes on . It was very careless of his mother to leave the fruitatives where he could get them , but she was well-known to be a heedless creature . One day she found a nest of five eggs as she was going across the fields to church with a brand new blue silk dress on . So she put them in the pocket of her petticoat and when she got to church she forgot all about them and sat down on them and her dress was ruined , not to speak of the petticoat . Let me see -- would not Tod be some relation of yours ? Your great grandmother West was a MacAllister . Her brother Amos was a MacDonaldite in religion . I am told he used to take the jerks something fearful . But you look more like your great grandfather West than the MacAllisters . He died of a paralytic stroke quite early in life . '' `` Did you see anybody at the store ? '' asked Rilla desperately , in the faint hope of directing Susan 's conversation into more agreeable channels . `` Nobody except Mary Vance , '' said Susan , `` and she was stepping round as brisk as the Irishman 's flea . '' What terrible similes Susan used ! Would Kenneth think she acquired them from the family ! `` To hear Mary talk about Miller Douglas you would think he was the only Glen boy who had enlisted , '' Susan went on . `` But of course she always did brag and she has some good qualities I am willing to admit , though I did not think so that time she chased Rilla here through the village with a dried codfish till the poor child fell , heels over head , into the puddle before Carter Flagg 's store . '' Rilla went cold all over with wrath and shame . Were there any more disgraceful scenes in her past that Susan could rake up ? As for Ken , he could have howled over Susan 's speeches , but he would not so insult the duenna of his lady , so he sat with a preternaturally solemn face which seemed to poor Rilla a haughty and offended one .
`` I paid eleven cents for a bottle XXXXX ink tonight , '' complained Susan .
So about as at before in of though till with