Whiskers-on-the-moon 's pacifist pig should not get it , anyhow . That evening Mr. and Mrs. Joe , accompanied by the recovered Sir Wilfrid , departed for the Four Winds Lighthouse , which was kept by Joe 's uncle and in which they meant to spend their brief honeymoon . Una Meredith and Rilla and Susan washed the dishes , tidied up , left a cold supper and Miranda 's pitiful little note on the table for Mr. Pryor , and walked home , while the mystic veil of dreamy , haunted winter twilight wrapped itself over the Glen . `` I would really not have minded being a war-bride myself , '' remarked Susan sentimentally . But Rilla felt rather flat -- perhaps as a reaction to all the excitement and rush of the past thirty-six hours . She was disappointed somehow -- the whole affair had been so ludicrous , and Miranda and Joe so lachrymose and commonplace . `` If Miranda had n't given that wretched dog such an enormous dinner he would n't have had that fit , '' she said crossly . `` I warned her -- but she said she could n't starve the poor dog -- he would soon be all she had left , etc. . I could have shaken her . '' `` The best man was more excited than Joe was , '' said Susan . `` He wished Miranda many happy returns of the day . She did not look very happy , but perhaps you could not expect that under the circumstances . '' `` Anyhow , '' thought Rilla , `` I can write a perfectly killing account of it all to the boys . How Jem will howl over Sir Wilfrid 's part in it ! '' But if Rilla was rather disappointed in the war wedding she found nothing lacking on Friday morning when Miranda said good-bye to her bridegroom at the Glen station . The dawn was white as a pearl , clear as a diamond . Behind the station the balsamy copse of young firs was frost-misted . The cold moon of dawn hung over the westering snow fields but the golden fleeces of sunrise shone above the maples up at Ingleside . Joe took his pale little bride in his arms and she lifted her face to his . Rilla choked suddenly .
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