Her hair was ripely , ruddily brown and a little dent in her upper lip looked as if some good fairy had pressed it in with her finger at Rilla 's christening . Rilla , whose best friends could not deny her share of vanity , thought her face would do very well , but worried over her figure , and wished her mother could be prevailed upon to let her wear longer dresses . She , who had been so plump and roly-poly in the old Rainbow Valley days , was incredibly slim now , in the arms-and-legs period . Jem and Shirley harrowed her soul by calling her `` Spider . '' Yet she somehow escaped awkwardness . There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced . She had been much petted and was a wee bit spoiled , but still the general opinion was that Rilla Blythe was a very sweet girl , even if she were not so clever as Nan and Di . Miss Oliver , who was going home that night for vacation , had boarded for a year at Ingleside . The Blythes had taken her to please Rilla who was fathoms deep in love with her teacher and was even willing to share her room , since no other was available . Gertrude Oliver was twenty-eight and life had been a struggle for her . She was a striking-looking girl , with rather sad , almond-shaped brown eyes , a clever , rather mocking mouth , and enormous masses of black hair twisted about her head . She was not pretty but there was a certain charm of interest and mystery in her face , and Rilla found her fascinating . Even her occasional moods of gloom and cynicism had allurement for Rilla . These moods came only when Miss Oliver was tired . At all other times she was a stimulating companion , and the gay set at Ingleside never remembered that she was so much older than themselves . Walter and Rilla were her favourites and she was the confidante of the secret wishes and aspirations of both . She knew that Rilla longed to be `` out '' -- to go to parties as Nan and Di did , and to have dainty evening dresses and -- yes , there is no mincing matters -- beaux ! In the plural , at that ! As for Walter , Miss Oliver knew that he had written a sequence of sonnets `` to Rosamond '' -- i.e. , Faith Meredith -- and that he aimed at a Professorship of English literature in some big college . She knew his passionate love of beauty and his equally passionate hatred of ugliness ; she knew his strength and his weakness .
Walter was , XXXXX ever , the handsomest of the Ingleside boys .
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