`` She is not going to throw herself away on Miller Douglas , believe me ! She knows my opinion on the matter and Mary has never disobeyed me yet . '' `` Well , I do not think you need worry , Mrs. Marshall Elliott , for Mrs. Alec Davis is as much against it as you could be , and says no nephew of hers is ever going to marry a nameless nobody like Mary Vance . '' Susan returned to her mutton , feeling that she had got the best of it in this passage of arms , and read another `` note . '' '' ` We are pleased to hear that Miss Oliver has been engaged as teacher for another year . Miss Oliver will spend her well-earned vacation at her home in Lowbridge . ' '' `` I 'm so glad Gertrude is going to stay , '' said Mrs. Blythe . `` We would miss her horribly . And she has an excellent influence over Rilla who worships her . They are chums , in spite of the difference in their ages . '' `` I thought I heard she was going to be married ? '' `` I believe it was talked of but I understand it is postponed for a year . '' `` Who is the young man ? '' `` Robert Grant . He is a young lawyer in Charlottetown . I hope Gertrude will be happy . She has had a sad life , with much bitterness in it , and she feels things with a terrible keenness . Her first youth is gone and she is practically alone in the world . This new love that has come into her life seems such a wonderful thing to her that I think she hardly dares believe in its permanence . When her marriage had to be put off she was quite in despair -- though it certainly was n't Mr. Grant 's fault .
There were complications in the settlement XXXXX his father 's estate -- his father died last winter -- and he could not marry till the tangles were unravelled .
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