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The last week in August came Miss Lavendar was to be married in it

Teeks later Anne and Gilbert would leave for Rede In a week's time Mrs Rachel Lynde would move to Green Gables and set up her lares and penates in the erstwhile spare roo She had sold all her superfluous household plenishings by auction and was at present reveling in the congenial occupation of helping the Allans pack up Mr Allan was to preach his farewell serive place to the new, as Anne felt with a little sadness threading all her excitees ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things," said Mr

Harrison philosophically "Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the sarowon his veranda His wife had self-sacrificingly told that he ht smoke in the house if he took care to sit by an openMr Harrison rewarded this concession by going outdoors altogether to sned

Anne had come over to ask Mrs Harrison for soh to Echo Lodge that evening to help Miss Lavendar and Charlotta the Fourth with their final preparations for the morrow's bridal Miss Lavendar herself never had dahlias; she did not like them and they would not have suited the fine retirearden But flowers of any kind were rather scarce in Avonlea and the neighboring districts that suht that a certain old creahnuts, bri to set in a diround of red hall paper

"I s'pose you'll be starting off for college in a fortnight's time?"

continued Mr Harrison "Well, we're going to miss you an awful lot, Emily and me To be sure, Mrs Lynde'll be over there in your place

There ain't nobody but a substitute can be found for them"

The irony of Mr Harrison's tone is quite untransferable to paper In spite of his wife's intimacy with Mrs Lynde, the best that could be said of the relationship between her and Mr Harrison even under the new regioing," said Anne "I'lad with my headand very sorry with my heart"