Such a power has a bit of divinity in it -- whether of a good or an evil divinity who shall say ? And we mortals all shrink from too close contact with God or devil . ' `` Them was his words . I remember them as if 't was yesterday , though I did n't know jest what he meant . What do you s ` pose he DID mean , doctor ? '' `` I doubt if he knew what he meant himself , '' said Doctor Dave testily . `` I think I understand , '' whispered Anne . She was listening in her old attitude of clasped lips and shining eyes . Captain Jim treated himself to an admiring smile before he went on with his story . `` Well , purty soon all the Glen and Four Winds people knew the schoolmaster 's bride was coming , and they were all glad because they thought so much of him . And everybody took an interest in his new house -- THIS house . He picked this site for it , because you could see the harbor and hear the sea from it . He made the garden out there for his bride , but he did n't plant the Lombardies . Mrs. Ned Russell planted THEM . But there 's a double row of rose-bushes in the garden that the little girls who went to the Glen school set out there for the schoolmaster 's bride . He said they were pink for her cheeks and white for her brow and red for her lips . He 'd quoted poetry so much that he sorter got into the habit of talking it , too , I reckon . `` Almost everybody sent him some little present to help out the furnishing of the house . When the Russells came into it they were well-to-do and furnished it real handsome , as you can see ; but the first furniture that went into it was plain enough . This little house was rich in love , though .
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