`` Aunt Caroline Greenley . '' `` Carry Lea , are we both dreaming ? '' gasped Patty . With crimson cheeks Carry ripped the other breadths apart , and there were the other four bills . Then she slipped down in a little heap on the sofa cushions and began to cry -- happy tears of relief and gladness . `` We can pay the interest , '' said Patty , dancing around the room , `` and get yourself a nice new dress for the wedding . '' `` Indeed I wo n't , '' said Carry , sitting up and laughing through her tears . `` I 'll make over this dress and wear it out of gratitude to the memory of dear Aunt Caroline . '' Aunt Susanna 's Thanksgiving Dinner . BY L.M. MONTGOMERY `` Here 's Aunt Susanna , girls , '' said Laura who was sitting by the north window -- nothing but north light does for Laura who is the artist of our talented family . Each of us has a little pet new-fledged talent which we are faithfully cultivating in the hope that it will amount to something and soar highly some day . But it is difficult to cultivate four talents on our tiny income . If Laura was n't such a good manager we never could do it . Laura 's words were a signal for Kate to hang up her violin and for me to push my pen and portfolio out of sight . Laura had hidden her brushes and water colors as she spoke . Only Margaret continued to bend serenely over her Latin grammar . Aunt Susanna frowns on musical and literary and artistic ambitions but she accords a faint approval to Margaret 's desire for an education . A college course , with a tangible diploma at the end , and a sensible pedagogic aspiration is something Aunt Susanna can understand when she tries hard . But she can not understand messing with paints , fiddling , or scribbling , and she has only unmeasured contempt for messers , fiddlers , and scribblers . Time was when we had paid no attention to Aunt Susanna 's views on these points ; but ever since she had , on one incautious day when she was in high good humor , dropped a pale , anemic little hint that she might send Margaret to college if she were a good girl we had been bending all our energies towards securing Aunt Susanna 's approval .
It was not enough that Aunt Susanna should approve of Margaret ; she must approve XXXXX the whole four of us or she would not help Margaret .
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