They have captured Belgrade . '' `` And sent the Austrian creatures packing across the Danube with a flea in their ear , '' said Susan with a relish , as she settled down to examine a map of Eastern Europe , prodding each locality with the knitting needle to brand it on her memory . `` Cousin Sophia said awhile ago that Serbia was done for , but I told her there was still such a thing as an over-ruling Providence , doubt it who might . It says here that the slaughter was terrible . For all they were foreigners it is awful to think of so many men being killed , Mrs. Dr. dear -- for they are scarce enough as it is . '' Rilla was upstairs relieving her over-charged feelings by writing in her diary . `` Things have all ` gone catawampus , ' as Susan says , with me this week . Part of it was my own fault and part of it was n't , and I seem to be equally unhappy over both parts . `` I went to town the other day to buy a new winter hat . It was the first time nobody insisted on coming with me to help me select it , and I felt that mother had really given up thinking of me as a child . And I found the dearest hat -- it was simply bewitching . It was a velvet hat , of the very shade of rich green that was made for me . It just goes with my hair and complexion beautifully , bringing out the red-brown shades and what Miss Oliver calls my ` creaminess ' so well . Only once before in my life have I come across that precise shade of green . When I was twelve I had a little beaver hat of it , and all the girls in school were wild over it . Well , as soon as I saw this hat I felt that I simply must have it -- and have it I did . The price was dreadful . I will not put it down here because I do n't want my descendants to know I was guilty of paying so much for a hat , in war-time , too , when everybody is -- or should be -- trying to be economical . `` When I got home and tried on the hat again in my room I was assailed by qualms . Of course , it was very becoming ; but somehow it seemed too elaborate and fussy for church going and our quiet little doings in the Glen -- too conspicuous , in short .
It had n't seemed so at the milliner 's but here XXXXX my little white room it did .
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