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It's always wrong to do anything you can't tell the minister's wife.

It's as good as an extra conscience to have a minister's wife for your friend.

And I was very glad I didn't bet, because the red horse DID win, and I would have lost ten cents.

So you see that virtue was its own reward.

We saw a man go up in a balloon.

I'd love to go up in a balloon, Marilla; it would be simply thrilling; and we saw a man selling fortunes.

You paid him ten cents and a little bird picked out your fortune for you.

Miss Barry gave Diana and me ten cents each to have our fortunes told.

Mine was that I would marry a dark-complected man who was very wealthy, and I would go across water to live.

I looked carefully at all the dark men I saw after that, but I didn't care much for any of them, and anyhow I suppose it's too early to be looking out for him yet.

Oh, it was a never-to-be-forgotten day, Marilla.

I was so tired I couldn't sleep at night.

Miss Barry put us in the spare room, according to promise.

It was an elegant room, Marilla, but somehow sleeping in a spare room isn't what I used to think it was.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it.

The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

Thursday the girls had a drive in the park, and in the evening Miss Barry took them to a concert in the Academy of Music, where a noted prima donna was to sing. To Anne the evening was a glittering vision of delight.

"Oh, Marilla, it was beyond description.

I was so excited I couldn't even talk, so you may know what it was like.

I just sat in enraptured silence.

Madame Selitsky was perfectly beautiful, and wore white satin and diamonds.

But when she began to sing I never thought about anything else.

Oh, I can't tell you how I felt.

But it seemed to me that it could never be hard to be good any more.

I felt like I do when I look up to the stars.

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