This particular Tom Holt , for example , she knew to be a kind husband , a much loved father , and an excellent neighbor . If he were rather inclined to be lazy , liking better the fishing he had been born for than the farming he had not , and if he had a harmless eccentricity for doing fancy work , nobody save Miss Cornelia seemed to hold it against him . His wife was a `` hustler , '' who gloried in hustling ; his family got a comfortable living off the farm ; and his strapping sons and daughters , inheriting their mother 's energy , were all in a fair way to do well in the world . There was not a happier household in Glen St. Mary than the Holts ' . Miss Cornelia returned satisfied from the house up the brook . `` Leslie 's going to take him , '' she announced . `` She jumped at the chance . She wants to make a little money to shingle the roof of her house this fall , and she did n't know how she was going to manage it . I expect Captain Jim 'll be more than interested when he hears that a grandson of the Selwyns ' is coming here . Leslie said to tell you she hankered after cherry pie , but she could n't come to tea because she has to go and hunt up her turkeys . They 've strayed away . But she said , if there was a piece left , for you to put it in the pantry and she 'd run over in the cat 's light , when prowling 's in order , to get it . You do n't know , Anne , dearie , what good it did my heart to hear Leslie send you a message like that , laughing like she used to long ago . `` There 's a great change come over her lately . She laughs and jokes like a girl , and from her talk I gather she 's here real often . '' `` Every day -- or else I 'm over there , '' said Anne . `` I do n't know what I 'd do without Leslie , especially just now when Gilbert is so busy . He 's hardly ever home except for a few hours in the wee sma 's . He 's really working himself to death . So many of the over-harbor people send for him now . ''
`` They might better be content with their own doctor , '' XXXXX Miss Cornelia .
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