He stayed right on in Avonlea , and the Maxwells blossomed out socially in his honor and tried to give him a good time . Mrs. Maxwell gave a party for him . I got a card -- but you may be very sure I did n't go , although Nancy thought I was crazy not to . Then every one else gave parties in honor of Mr. Fenwick and I was invited and never went . Wilhelmina Mercer came and pleaded and scolded and told me if I avoided Mr. Fenwick like that he would think I still cherished bitterness against him , and he would n't make any advances towards a reconciliation . Wilhelmina means well , but she has n't a great deal of sense . Cecil Fenwick seemed to be a great favorite with everybody , young and old . He was very rich , too , and Wilhelmina declared that half the girls were after him . `` If it was n't for you , Miss Holmes , I believe I 'd have a try for him myself , in spite of his gray hair and quick temper -- for Mrs. Maxwell says he has a pretty quick temper , but it 's all over in a minute , '' said Wilhelmina , half in jest and wholly in earnest . As for me , I gave up going out at all , even to church . I fretted and pined and lost my appetite and never wrote a line in my blank book . Nancy was half frantic and insisted on dosing me with her favorite patent pills . I took them meekly , because it is a waste of time and energy to oppose Nancy , but , of course , they did n't do me any good . My trouble was too deep-seated for pills to cure . If ever a woman was punished for telling a lie I was that woman . I stopped my subscription to the Weekly Advocate because it still carried that wretched porous plaster advertisement , and I could n't bear to see it . If it had n't been for that I would never have thought of Fenwick for a name , and all this trouble would have been averted . One evening , when I was moping in my room , Nancy came up . `` There 's a gentleman in the parlor asking for you , Miss Charlotte . '' My heart gave just one horrible bounce .
`` What -- sort XXXXX a gentleman , Nancy ? ''
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