I s'pose"-- Miss Cornelia looked sharply at Anne over her glasses--"you think there's nobody like him in the world." "There isn't," said Anne promptly.
"Ah, well, I heard another bride say that once," sighed Miss Cornelia.
"Jennie Dean thought when she married that there wasn't anybody like HER husband in the world.

And she was right--there wasn't! And a good thing, too, believe ME! He led her an awful life--and he was courting his second wife while Jennie was dying.
"Wasn't that like a man?
However, I hope YOUR confidence will be better justified, dearie.

The young doctor is taking real well.

I was afraid at first he mightn't, for folks hereabouts have always thought old Doctor Dave the only doctor in the world.

Doctor Dave hadn't much tact, to be sure--he was always talking of ropes in houses where someone had hanged himself.