`` Oh , do n't cast up the follies of my youth to me . I shall be poor as gaily as I 've been rich . You 'll see . I 'm going to learn how to cook and make over dresses . I 've learned how to market since I 've lived at Patty 's Place ; and once I taught a Sunday School class for a whole summer . Aunt Jamesina says I 'll ruin Jo 's career if I marry him . But I wo n't . I know I have n't much sense or sobriety , but I 've got what is ever so much better -- the knack of making people like me . There is a man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting . He says , ` If you ca n't thine like an electric thtar thine like a candlethtick . ' I 'll be Jo 's little candlestick . '' `` Phil , you 're incorrigible . Well , I love you so much that I ca n't make nice , light , congratulatory little speeches . But I 'm heart-glad of your happiness . '' `` I know . Those big gray eyes of yours are brimming over with real friendship , Anne . Some day I 'll look the same way at you . You 're going to marry Roy , are n't you , Anne ? '' `` My dear Philippa , did you ever hear of the famous Betty Baxter , who ` refused a man before he 'd axed her ' ? I am not going to emulate that celebrated lady by either refusing or accepting any one before he ` axes ' me . ''
`` All Redmond knows XXXXX Roy is crazy about you , '' said Phil candidly .
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