I want to thank you for what you have done for Paul . I think that your influence has been just what he needed . Mother is one of the best and dearest of women ; but her robust , matter-of-fact Scotch common sense could not always understand a temperament like my laddie 's . What was lacking in her you have supplied . Between you , I think Paul 's training in these two past years has been as nearly ideal as a motherless boy 's could be . '' Everybody likes to be appreciated . Under Mr. Irving 's praise Anne 's face `` burst flower like into rosy bloom , '' and the busy , weary man of the world , looking at her , thought he had never seen a fairer , sweeter slip of girlhood than this little `` down east '' schoolteacher with her red hair and wonderful eyes . Paul sat between them blissfully happy . `` I never dreamed father was coming , '' he said radiantly . `` Even Grandma did n't know it . It was a great surprise . As a general thing ... '' Paul shook his brown curls gravely ... `` I do n't like to be surprised . You lose all the fun of expecting things when you 're surprised . But in a case like this it is all right . Father came last night after I had gone to bed . And after Grandma and Mary Joe had stopped being surprised he and Grandma came upstairs to look at me , not meaning to wake me up till morning . But I woke right up and saw father . I tell you I just sprang at him . '' `` With a hug like a bear 's , '' said Mr. Irving , putting his arms around Paul 's shoulder smilingly . `` I hardly knew my boy , he had grown so big and brown and sturdy . ''
`` I do n't know which was the most pleased XXXXX see father , Grandma or I , '' continued Paul .
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