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She's gone without a cap or wrap.

Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming.

It'll be a mercy if she doesn't catch her death of cold."

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce.

The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips.

"You see before you a perfectly happy person, Marilla," she announced.

"I'm perfectly happy-yes, in spite of my red hair.

Just at present I have a soul above red hair.

Mrs. Barry kissed me and cried and said she was so sorry and she could never repay me.

I felt fearfully embarrassed, Marilla, but I just said as politely as I could, 'I have no hard feelings for you, Mrs. Barry.

I assure you once for all that I did not mean to intoxicate Diana and henceforth I shall cover the past with the mantle of oblivion.' That was a pretty dignified way of speaking wasn't it, Marilla?"

"I felt that I was heaping coals of fire on Mrs. Barry's head.

And Diana and I had a lovely afternoon.

Diana showed me a new fancy crochet stitch her aunt over at Carmody taught her.

Not a soul in Avonlea knows it but us, and we pledged a solemn vow never to reveal it to anyone else.

Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry:

"If you love me as I love you

Nothing but death can part us two.

"And that is true, Marilla.

We're going to ask Mr. Phillips to let us sit together in school again, and Gertie Pye can go with Minnie Andrews.

We had an elegant tea.

Mrs. Barry had the very best china set out, Marilla, just as if I was real company.

I can't tell you what a thrill it gave me.

Nobody ever used their very best china on my account before.

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