But Rose was smiling as a basket of chips , believe ME ! `` Leslie and Dick settled down on the West place -- Rose could n't bear to part with her dear daughter ! -- and lived there for the winter . In the spring Rose took pneumonia and died -- a year too late ! Leslie was heart-broken enough over it . Is n't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved , while others that deserve it far more , you 'd think , never get much affection ? As for Dick , he 'd had enough of quiet married life -- just like a man . He was for up and off . He went over to Nova Scotia to visit his relations -- his father had come from Nova Scotia -- and he wrote back to Leslie that his cousin , George Moore , was going on a voyage to Havana and he was going too . The name of the vessel was the Four Sisters and they were to be gone about nine weeks . `` It must have been a relief to Leslie . But she never said anything . From the day of her marriage she was just what she is now -- cold and proud , and keeping everyone but me at a distance . I wo n't BE kept at a distance , believe ME ! I 've just stuck to Leslie as close as I knew how in spite of everything . '' `` She told me you were the best friend she had , '' said Anne . `` Did she ? '' exclaimed Miss Cornelia delightedly . `` Well , I 'm real thankful to hear it . Sometimes I 've wondered if she really did want me around at all -- she never let me think so .
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