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Anne,

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would you accept my love 
and consent to marry me?

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I can't.

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I can't.

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I can't marry you.

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I can't!

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Why can't you?

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Because—I don't care enough for you.

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So you've just been amusing yourself?

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No, no, I haven't.

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I did think I cared. Truly I did.

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But I know now I don't.

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You have ruined my life.

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Forgive me.

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You can give me no hope?

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You are the only woman I can ever love.

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I thank you for your friendship, at least.

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Goodbye.

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Chapter 24

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It's the Birthday
of Our Happiness

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How did it go?

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Wait. Wait till you hear what I have to say.

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Roy asked me to marry him.

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And I refused.

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Y-You <i>refused</i> him?

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Oh, Phil, don't scold me. 
You don't understand.

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I certainly don't understand.

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You've encouraged Roy in 
every way all this time,

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and now you tell me you've refused him.

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Then you've just been flirting 
scandalously with him.

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I couldn't have believed it of <i>you</i>.

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I didn't! You don't understand!

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Then, why?

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Oh, I can't explain it to you 
any more than I could to him.

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Well, I suppose there is no use 
in saying anything to you.

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No, there is no need. 
I've spoiled everything.

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Roy despises me, and you despise me,

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and I despise myself.

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You poor darling.

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Forgive me, Anne.

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Just come here and let me comfort you.

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I've no right to scold you.

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Oh, why must things be so
 complicated and mixed up in real life?

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Roy <i>is</i> feeling terribly just now.

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I have to listen to his 
outpourings every day.

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But he'll get over it.

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He always does.

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He's had to give up on love twice before.

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And he got back on his feet.

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You are the only woman I can ever love.

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So I don't think you need worry.

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I did want you for a sister, but this 
won't spoil <i>our</i> friendship, will it?

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No, indeed not, Dorothy.

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Oh, good! I'll write to you.

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Remind me. Your family home is...

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In Avonlea on Prince Edward Island.

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It's called Green Gables.

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Anne! You're home.

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What has happened to the 
old Snow Queen, Marilla?

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Oh, it was rotten at the core.

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It blew down in the big 
gale we had in March.

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That tree was there ever since 
Matthew and I were young.

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I'll never look from the porch gable 
window again without a sense of loss.

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Well, tell me all the Avonlea news.

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There isn't much news except 
what we've wrote you.

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Rachel, have you told Anne 
the news about Jane?

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What's happened to Jane?

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Jane Andrews is going to be married 
to a Winnipeg millionaire.

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Dear old Jane! I'm so glad.

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She deserves the good things of life.

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Oh, Jane's a nice enough girl.

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But she isn't in the millionaire class.

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Her engagement ring is a 
diamond cluster so big

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that it looks like a plaster 
on Jane's fat paw.

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I think you're being unkind.

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Am I, now?

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Rachel minds that you're not 
spoken for by anyone yet.

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My just desserts. 
I've ruined every chance I had.

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You mean that fellow Roy?

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Yes. I'm going to face the 
punishment for what I've done.

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You tormenting yourself 
won't do anybody any good.

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What has Gilbert Blythe been 
doing to himself at college?

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I saw him when he came home last week,

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and he is so pale and 
thin I hardly knew him.

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He studied very hard last winter.

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He's going to start the
medical course at Redmond,

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so I think he's rather run down.

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You know he took the Cooper Prize.

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It hasn't been taken for five years!

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And you took Highest Honors in English.

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Jane Andrews could never have managed <i>that</i>.

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Mrs. Lynde!

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How is Diana?

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It is lonely coming home without 
her here to welcome me.

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Diana has something else 
to think of just now.

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You must have heard.

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Why don't you go and see her yourself?

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My! Isn't he delightful!

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Look! Anne's come home.

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He looks just like Fred!

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Before he came, I wanted a girl, 
so that I could call her Anne.

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But now that little Fred is here, I wouldn't 
exchange him for a million girls.

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"Every little baby is the 
sweetest and the best."

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If little Anne <i>had</i> come, you'd have 
felt just the same about her.

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Yes, Mrs. Allan, you're exactly right.

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I can hardly wait till he 
gets old enough to talk.

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I just long to hear him say 
"mother" with a smile.

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...in sickness and in health...

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<i>Mother thinks it's terrible.</i>

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...in good times and in bad...

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<i>She thinks Jo might at least take 
a church in a decent place.</i>

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<i>But the wilderness of the Patterson slums</i>

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<i>will blossom like the rose 
for me if Jo is there.</i>

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<i>Oh, Anne,</i>

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<i>I'm so happy my heart aches with it.</i>

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I'm surrounded by happiness, Matthew.

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Yes, of course, Matthew.

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I'm happy, too.

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"I've tried the world—it wears no more"

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"The colouring of romance it wore."

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See here, Davy. Not a word to Anne about—

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I'm back!

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Oh, Anne. You're home.

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It's good to see you again.

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Come in.

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Welcome home, Anne.

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I see you're drenched.

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How was the wedding?

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Oh, Phil was radiant.

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Everyone was so nice, I stayed 
longer than I meant to.

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"East, west, home's best."

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Davy, have you been growing again lately?

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Yeah. I've growed a whole
inch since you left.

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I'm as tall as Milty Boulter now.

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Say, Anne, did you know that 
Gilbert Blythe is dying?

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Davy!

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Gilbert is... what?

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Like I said, he's dying.

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Davy!

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Anne, don't look like that—
<i>don't look like that!</i>

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We didn't mean to tell you so suddenly.

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Is it true?

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Gilbert is very ill.

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He took down with typhoid fever 
just after you left for Bolingbroke.

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The doctor said he'd been terribly run down.

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But while there's life, there's hope.

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Mr. Harrison said they had no hope of him.

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Davy!

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Well he did!

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Gilbert is dying.

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Gilbert is...

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If Gilbert goes away from me,
I cannot live, either.

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Yes, I know now.

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I... I...

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You're not...

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who I want.

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You've always loved Gilbert, haven't you?

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Since you were children.

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It's too late now.

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If you hadn't been so foolish, you 
would have the right to go to him now.

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You could have had the bitter solace

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of being with him at the last.

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But Gilbert will leave this life 
never knowing that you loved him.

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Sad, despondent, thinking you never cared.

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No!

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No! No!

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I love him!

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I love... I love Gilbert!

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I do love him! I do!

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So please...

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don't take him from me.

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Gilbert will leave this life 
never knowing that you loved him.

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Without Gilbert...

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nothing is of any value.

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Excuse me...

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Excuse...

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I beg your pardon!

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Don't you work for George Fletcher, 
who lives next door to the Blythes?

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That I do.

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Did you come from 
George Fletcher's this morning?

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Sure!

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Mr. Fletcher hired another 
boy to help with the work.

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He gets to Bright River on the first train.

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I'm going through the woods for a shortcut.

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Th-Then...

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Did you hear how Gilbert Blythe
was this morning?

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Gilbert?

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He's better.

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The worst is behind him.

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The doctor says he'll be 
all right any day now.

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Well, I must hurry.

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Oh, thank goodness.

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I...

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I can't thank you enough!

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<i>"Weeping may endure for a night"</i>

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<i>"but joy cometh in the morning."</i>

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Hello, Anne.

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Gilbert!

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How do you feel?

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Much better, thanks to you.

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I've come to ask you to go 
for one of our rambles.

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Do you remember the old apple tree 
we went to see before we left for college?

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Yes, of course.

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But have you forgotten
today is Jane's wedding?

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I've got to do something to this dress.

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Well, can you go tomorrow afternoon, then?

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Yes, I think so.

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I'll never forgive Jane for not 
inviting me to her wedding.

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You really can't blame her when 
you think of all her relations.

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The house can hardly hold them all.

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Is it true she'll wear so many diamonds

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that you can't tell where the 
diamonds end and Jane begins?

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I'll tell you once I've seen her.

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Good.

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Well, I'll be up tomorrow.

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Hope you'll have a nice time tonight.

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Thank you.

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Gilbert!

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Let's go for that ramble now, after all.

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What about your dress?

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I'll manage it somehow.

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Today is too lovely to waste 
not walking with you.

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This moment will never come again.

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My!

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It's all in bloom!

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Yes. I can hardly wait 
for the fruit come fall.

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True.

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I feel as though old dreams might return 
in the midst of all this beauty.

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Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?

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Of course. Everybody has.

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None of us could never 
fulfill <i>all</i> of our dreams.

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And we would be as good as dead if 
we had nothing left to dream about.

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I have a dream.

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Although it has often seemed to 
me that it could never come true,

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I persist in dreaming it.

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I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it,

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a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends,

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and...

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and you.

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I asked you a question over two years ago.

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I...

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I...

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I can't.

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If I ask it again today,

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will you give me a different answer?

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B-But what about Christine?

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I thought you loved Christine Stuart.

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Christine was engaged to 
somebody in her hometown.

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I knew her brother, and he asked 
me to look after her for a bit.

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I knew college gossip credited us 
with being in love with each other,

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but I didn't care after you told 
me you could never love me.

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And Christine trusted me, anyway.

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Anne, there never could be 
anybody else for me but you.

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I've loved you ever since that day you 
broke your slate over my head in school.

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I don't see how you could keep on loving 
me when I was such a little fool.

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Well, I tried to stop, especially 
after Gardner came around.

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I felt sure there was no chance for me then.

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But I couldn't.

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Then the day my fever broke, I got a letter 
from Phil Gordon—Phil Blake, rather.

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Phil wrote to you?

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Yes.

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She told me there was really 
nothing between you and Roy

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and advised me to "try again."

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Well, the doctor was amazed at 
my rapid recovery after that.

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Anne?

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I can never forget the night 
I thought you were dying.

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Oh, I knew—I <i>knew</i> then—

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and I thought it was too late.

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But it wasn't for either of us, Anne.

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No.

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It's the birthday of our happiness.

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I've always loved apple blossoms,

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and now they will be dearer than ever.

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But I'll have to ask you 
to wait a long time.

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It will be three years before 
I'll finish my medical course.

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And even then there will be no 
diamond sunbursts and marble halls.

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I just want <i>you</i>, Gilbert.

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Sunbursts and marble halls 
may be all very well,

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but there is more 
"scope for imagination" without them.

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And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter.

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We'll just be happy, waiting and working 
for each other—and dreaming.

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Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

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Matthew, we're going
to be married.

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We took the long way getting here,

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but I promise I'll make her happy.

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Thank you, Matthew.

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I'm so glad I'm your daughter.

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<i>Gracious Heavenly Father,</i>

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<i>thank you so much for my Green Gables,</i>

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<i>for bringing me here to 
wonderful Green Gables.</i>

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<i>Thank you!</i>

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<i>Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.</i>