`` Sarah Kirk is entirely out of the question , '' she said positively . `` And so is Emmeline Drew -- though the Drews are all trying to make the match . They are literally throwing poor Emmeline at his head , and he has n't the least idea of it . '' `` Emmeline Drew has no gumption , I must allow , '' said Susan . `` She is the kind of woman , Mrs. Dr. dear , who would put a hot-water bottle in your bed on a dog-night and then have her feelings hurt because you were not grateful . And her mother was a very poor housekeeper . Did you ever hear the story of her dishcloth ? She lost her dishcloth one day . But the next day she found it . Oh , yes , Mrs. Dr. dear , she found it , in the goose at the dinner-table , mixed up with the stuffing . Do you think a woman like that would do for a minister 's mother-in-law ? I do not . But no doubt I would be better employed in mending little Jem 's trousers than in talking gossip about my neighbours . He tore them something scandalous last night in Rainbow Valley . '' `` Where is Walter ? '' asked Anne . `` He is up to no good , I fear , Mrs. Dr. dear . He is in the attic writing something in an exercise book . And he has not done as well in arithmetic this term as he should , so the teacher tells me . Too well I know the reason why .
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