![]() “I can’t believe it is only a week since they were married. “It seems to me they have been gone long enough to go around the world,” sighed Anne. “And Miss Lavendar’s wedding seemed to come as a sort of crown to it. “It has been a nice summer,” said Diana, twisting the new ring on her left hand with a smile. The sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed with golden rod, the brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple, and the Lake of Shining Waters was blue-blue-blue not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all moods and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquility unbroken by fickle dreams. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood.īut everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. ![]() ![]() Harvest is ended and summer is gone,” quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. ![]()
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