Tonight I am sure it is keeping a tryst with the past . '' Laughing a little over her fancy , yet with something of a creepy sensation in the region of her spine , Anne kissed her hand to Gog and Magog and slipped out into the fog , with some of the new magazines under her arm for Leslie . `` Leslie 's wild for books and magazines , '' Miss Cornelia had told her , `` and she hardly ever sees one . She ca n't afford to buy them or subscribe for them . She 's really pitifully poor , Anne . I do n't see how she makes out to live at all on the little rent the farm brings in . She never even hints a complaint on the score of poverty , but I know what it must be . She 's been handicapped by it all her life . She did n't mind it when she was free and ambitious , but it must gall now , believe ME . I 'm glad she seemed so bright and merry the evening she spent with you . Captain Jim told me he had fairly to put her cap and coat on and push her out of the door . Do n't be too long going to see her either . If you are she 'll think it 's because you do n't like the sight of Dick , and she 'll crawl into her shell again . Dick 's a great , big , harmless baby , but that silly grin and chuckle of his do get on some people 's nerves . Thank goodness , I 've no nerves myself . I like Dick Moore better now than I ever did when he was in his right senses -- though the Lord knows that is n't saying much . I was down there one day in housecleaning time helping Leslie a bit , and I was frying doughnuts . Dick was hanging round to get one , as usual , and all at once he picked up a scalding hot one I 'd just fished out and dropped it on the back of my neck when I was bending over . Then he laughed and laughed . Believe ME , Anne , it took all the grace of God in my heart to keep me from just whisking up that stew-pan of boiling fat and pouring it over his head . ''
Anne XXXXX over Miss Cornelia 's wrath as she sped through the darkness .
Believe boiling handicapped helping keep keeping know laughed pouring took