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1PUT on your white organdy, by all means, Anne," advised Diana decidedly. They were together in the east gable chamber;
2outside it was only twilight--a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless sky. A big round moon,
3slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood; the air was full of sweet
4summer sounds--sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, faraway voices and laughter. But in Anne's room the blind was
5drawn and the lamp lighted, for an important toilet was being made. The east gable was a very different place from what
6it had been on that night four years before, when Anne had felt its bareness penetrate to the marrow of her spirit with
7its inhospitable chill. Changes had crept in, Marilla conniving at them resignedly, until it was as sweet and dainty a
8nest as a young girl could desire. The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink silk curtains of Anne's early
9visions had certainly never materialized; but her dreams had kept pace with her growth, and it is not probable she
10lamented them. The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered
11in the vagrant breezes were of pale-green art muslin. The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but
12with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs. Allan. Miss Stacy's
13photograph occupied the place of honor, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers on the bracket under
14it. Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance. There was no "mahogany
15furniture," but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet table
16befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes painted over its
17arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed. Anne was dressing for a concert at the White Sands
18Hotel. The guests had got it up in aid of the Charlottetown hospital, and had hunted out all the available amateur
19talent in the surrounding districts to help it along. Bertha Sampson and Pearl Clay of the White Sands Baptist choir had
20been asked to sing a duet; Milton Clark of Newbridge was to give a violin solo; Winnie Adella Blair of Carmody was to
21sing a Scotch ballad; and Laura Spencer of Spencervale and Anne Shirley of Avonlea were to recite. As Anne would have
22said at one time, it was "an epoch in her life," and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it. Matthew was
23in the seventh heaven of gratified pride over the honor conferred on his Anne and Marilla was not far behind, although
24she would have died rather than admit it, and said she didn't think it was very proper for a lot of young folks to be
25gadding over to the hotel without any responsible person with them. Anne and Diana were to drive over with Jane Andrews
26and her brother Billy in their double-seated buggy; and several other Avonlea girls and boys were going too. There was a
27party of visitors expected out from town, and after the concert a supper was to be given to the performers. "Do you
28really think the organdy will be best?" queried Anne anxiously. "I don't think it's as pretty as my blue-flowered
29muslin--and it certainly isn't so fashionable." "But it suits you ever so much better," said Diana. "It's so soft and
30frilly and clinging. The muslin is stiff, and makes you look too dressed up. But the organdy seems as if it grew on
31you." Anne sighed and yielded. Diana was beginning to have a reputation for notable taste in dressing, and her advice on
32such subjects was much sought after. She was looking very pretty herself on this particular night in a dress of the
33lovely wild-rose pink, from which Anne was forever debarred; but she was not to take any part in the concert, so her
34appearance was of minor importance. All her pains were bestowed upon Anne, who, she vowed, must, for the credit of
35Avonlea, be dressed and combed and adorned to the Queen's taste. "Pull out that frill a little more--so; here, let me
36tie your sash; now for your slippers. I'm going to braid your hair in two thick braids, and tie them halfway up with big
37white bows--no, don't pull out a single curl over your forehead--just have the soft part. There is no way you do your
38hair suits you so well, Anne, and Mrs. Allan says you look like a Madonna when you part it so. I shall fasten this
39little white house rose just behind your ear. There was just one on my bush, and I saved it for you." "Shall I put my
40pearl beads on?" asked Anne. "Matthew brought me a string from town last week, and I know he'd like to see them on me."
41Diana pursed up her lips, put her black head on one side critically, and finally pronounced in favor of the beads, which
42were thereupon tied around Anne's slim milk-white throat. "There's something so stylish about you, Anne," said Diana,
43with unenvious admiration. "You hold your head with such an air. I suppose it's your figure. I am just a dumpling. I've
44always been afraid of it, and now I know it is so. Well, I suppose I shall just have to resign myself to it." "But you
45have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples,
46like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my
47dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?" "All ready," assured Diana, as Marilla appeared in the
48doorway, a gaunt figure with grayer hair than of yore and no fewer angles, but with a much softer face. "Come right in
49and look at our elocutionist, Marilla. Doesn't she look lovely?" Marilla emitted a sound between a sniff and a grunt.
50"She looks neat and proper. I like that way of fixing her hair. But I expect she'll ruin that dress driving over there
51in the dust and dew with it, and it looks most too thin for these damp nights. Organdy's the most unserviceable stuff in
52the world anyhow, and I told Matthew so when he got it. But there is no use in saying anything to Matthew nowadays. Time
53was when he would take my advice, but now he just buys things for Anne regardless, and the clerks at Carmody know they
54can palm anything off on him. Just let them tell him a thing is pretty and fashionable, and Matthew plunks his money
55down for it. Mind you keep your skirt clear of the wheel, Anne, and put your warm jacket on." Then Marilla stalked
56downstairs, thinking proudly how sweet Anne looked, with that "One moonbeam from the forehead to the crown" and
57regretting that she could not go to the concert herself to hear her girl recite. "I wonder if it is too damp for my
58dress," said Anne anxiously. "Not a bit of it," said Diana, pulling up the window blind. "It's a perfect night, and
59there won't be any dew. Look at the moonlight." "I'm so glad my window looks east into the sun rising," said Anne, going
60over to Diana. "It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir
61tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. Oh, Diana, I
62love this little room so dearly. I don't know how I'll get along without it when I go to town next month." "Don't speak
63of your going away tonight," begged Diana. "I don't want to think of it, it makes me so miserable, and I do want to have
64a good time this evening. What are you going to recite, Anne? And are you nervous?" "Not a bit. I've recited so often in
65public I don't mind at all now. I've decided to give 'The Maiden's Vow.' It's so pathetic. Laura Spencer is going to
66give a comic recitation, but I'd rather make people cry than laugh." "What will you recite if they encore you?" "They
67won't dream of encoring me," scoffed Anne, who was not without her own secret hopes that they would, and already
68visioned herself telling Matthew all about it at the next morning's breakfast table. "There are Billy and Jane now--I
69hear the wheels. Come on."
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