Anne refused to feel hurt . She knew that Leslie was in the grip of a hideous dread -- a dread that wrapped her away from all little glimpses of happiness and hours of pleasure . When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded aside . Never in all her life had Leslie Moore shuddered away from the future with more intolerable terror . But she went forward as unswervingly in the path she had elected as the martyrs of old walked their chosen way , knowing the end of it to be the fiery agony of the stake . The financial question was settled with greater ease than Anne had feared . Leslie borrowed the necessary money from Captain Jim , and , at her insistence , he took a mortgage on the little farm . `` So that is one thing off the poor girl 's mind , '' Miss Cornelia told Anne , `` and off mine too . Now , if Dick gets well enough to work again he 'll be able to earn enough to pay the interest on it ; and if he does n't I know Captain Jim 'll manage someway that Leslie wo n't have to . He said as much to me . ` I 'm getting old , Cornelia , ' he said , ` and I 've no chick or child of my own . Leslie wo n't take a gift from a living man , but mebbe she will from a dead one . ' So it will be all right as far as THAT goes . I wish everything else might be settled as satisfactorily . As for that wretch of a Dick , he 's been awful these last few days . The devil was in him , believe ME ! Leslie and I could n't get on with our work for the tricks he 'd play . He chased all her ducks one day around the yard till most of them died . And not one thing would he do for us . Sometimes , you know , he 'll make himself quite handy , bringing in pails of water and wood .
But this week if we sent him to the well he 'd try XXXXX climb down into it .
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