It 's a sign of consumption , I 've heard , but I hope it wo n't turn out like that in your case . I s ` pose you 'll all be dancing tonight -- even the minister 's boys most likely . I s ` pose his girls wo n't go that far . Ah , well , I never held with dancing . I knew a girl once who dropped dead while she was dancing . How any one could ever dance aga ' after a judgment like that I can not comprehend . '' `` Did she ever dance again ? '' asked Rilla pertly . `` I told you she dropped dead . Of course she never danced again , poor creature . She was a Kirke from Lowbridge . You ai n't a-going off like that with nothing on your bare neck , are you ? '' `` It 's a hot evening , '' protested Rilla . `` But I 'll put on a scarf when we go on the water . '' `` I knew of a boat load of young folks who went sailing on that harbour forty years ago just such a night as this -- just exactly such a night as this , '' said Cousin Sophia lugubriously , `` and they were upset and drowned -- every last one of them . I hope nothing like that 'll happen to you tonight . Do you ever try anything for the freckles ? I used to find plantain juice real good . '' `` You certainly should be a judge of freckles , Cousin Sophia , '' said Susan , rushing to Rilla 's defence . `` You were more speckled than any toad when you was a girl .
Rilla 's only come XXXXX summer but yours stayed put , season in and season out ; and you had not a ground colour like hers behind them neither .
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