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1"Puffs? Of course. You needn't worry a speck more about it, Matthew. I'll make it up in the very latest fashion," said
2Mrs. Lynde. To herself she added when Matthew had gone: "It'll be a real satisfaction to see that poor child wearing
3something decent for once. The way Marilla dresses her is positively ridiculous, that's what, and I've ached to tell her
4so plainly a dozen times. I've held my tongue though, for I can see Marilla doesn't want advice and she thinks she knows
5more about bringing children up than I do for all she's an old maid. But that's always the way. Folks that has brought
6up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have
7think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three--just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum 'll work out
8correct. But flesh and blood don't come under the head of arithmetic and that's where Marilla Cuthbert makes her
9mistake. I suppose she's trying to cultivate a spirit of humility in Anne by dressing her as she does; but it's more
10likely to cultivate envy and discontent. I'm sure the child must feel the difference between her clothes and the other
11girls'. But to think of Matthew taking notice of it! That man is waking up after being asleep for over sixty years."
12Marilla knew all the following fortnight that Matthew had something on his mind, but what it was she could not guess,
13until Christmas Eve, when Mrs. Lynde brought up the new dress. Marilla behaved pretty well on the whole, although it is
14very likely she distrusted Mrs. Lynde's diplomatic explanation that she had made the dress because Matthew was afraid
15Anne would find out about it too soon if Marilla made it. "So this is what Matthew has been looking so mysterious over
16and grinning about to himself for two weeks, is it?" she said a little stiffly but tolerantly. "I knew he was up to some
17foolishness. Well, I must say I don't think Anne needed any more dresses. I made her three good, warm, serviceable ones
18this fall, and anything more is sheer extravagance. There's enough material in those sleeves alone to make a waist, I
19declare there is. You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now. Well, I hope she'll be
20satisfied at last, for I know she's been hankering after those silly sleeves ever since they came in, although she never
21said a word after the first. The puffs have been getting bigger and more ridiculous right along; they're as big as
22balloons now. Next year anybody who wears them will have to go through a door sideways." Christmas morning broke on a
23beautiful white world. It had been a very mild December and people had looked forward to a green Christmas; but just
24enough snow fell softly in the night to transfigure Avonlea. Anne peeped out from her frosted gable window with
25delighted eyes. The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful; the birches and wild cherry-trees were
26outlined in pearl; the plowed fields were stretches of snowy dimples; and there was a crisp tang in the air that was
27glorious. Anne ran downstairs singing until her voice reechoed through Green Gables. "Merry Christmas, Marilla! Merry
28Christmas, Matthew! Isn't it a lovely Christmas? I'm so glad it's white. Any other kind of Christmas doesn't seem real,
29does it? I don't like green Christmases. They're not green--they're just nasty faded browns and grays. What makes people
30call them green? Why--why--Matthew, is that for me? Oh, Matthew!" Matthew had sheepishly unfolded the dress from its
31paper swathings and held it out with a deprecatory glance at Marilla, who feigned to be contemptuously filling the
32teapot, but nevertheless watched the scene out of the corner of her eye with a rather interested air. Anne took the
33dress and looked at it in reverent silence. Oh, how pretty it was--a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of
34silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pintucked in the most fashionable way, with a little
35ruffle of filmy lace at the neck. But the sleeves--they were the crowning glory! Long elbow cuffs, and above them two
36beautiful puffs divided by rows of shirring and bows of brown-silk ribbon. "That's a Christmas present for you, Anne,"
37said Matthew shyly. "Why--why--Anne, don't you like it? Well now--well now." For Anne's eyes had suddenly filled with
38tears. "Like it! Oh, Matthew!" Anne laid the dress over a chair and clasped her hands. "Matthew, it's perfectly
39exquisite. Oh, I can never thank you enough. Look at those sleeves! Oh, it seems to me this must be a happy dream."
40"Well, well, let us have breakfast," interrupted Marilla. "I must say, Anne, I don't think you needed the dress; but
41since Matthew has got it for you, see that you take good care of it. There's a hair ribbon Mrs. Lynde left for you. It's
42brown, to match the dress. Come now, sit in." "I don't see how I'm going to eat breakfast," said Anne rapturously.
43"Breakfast seems so commonplace at such an exciting moment. I'd rather feast my eyes on that dress. I'm so glad that
44puffed sleeves are still fashionable. It did seem to me that I'd never get over it if they went out before I had a dress
45with them. I'd never have felt quite satisfied, you see. It was lovely of Mrs. Lynde to give me the ribbon too. I feel
46that I ought to be a very good girl indeed. It's at times like this I'm sorry I'm not a model little girl; and I always
47resolve that I will be in future. But somehow it's hard to carry out your resolutions when irresistible temptations
48come. Still, I really will make an extra effort after this." When the commonplace breakfast was over Diana appeared,
49crossing the white log bridge in the hollow, a gay little figure in her crimson ulster. Anne flew down the slope to meet
50her. "Merry Christmas, Diana! And oh, it's a wonderful Christmas. I've something splendid to show you. Matthew has given
51me the loveliest dress, with such sleeves. I couldn't even imagine any nicer." "I've got something more for you," said
52Diana breathlessly. "Here--this box. Aunt Josephine sent us out a big box with ever so many things in it--and this is
53for you. I'd have brought it over last night, but it didn't come until after dark, and I never feel very comfortable
54coming through the Haunted Wood in the dark now." Anne opened the box and peeped in. First a card with "For the
55Anne-girl and Merry Christmas," written on it; and then, a pair of the daintiest little kid slippers, with beaded toes
56and satin bows and glistening buckles. "Oh," said Anne, "Diana, this is too much. I must be dreaming." "I call it
57providential," said Diana. "You won't have to borrow Ruby's slippers now, and that's a blessing, for they're two sizes
58too big for you, and it would be awful to hear a fairy shuffling. Josie Pye would be delighted. Mind you, Rob Wright
59went home with Gertie Pye from the practice night before last. Did you ever hear anything equal to that?" All the
60Avonlea scholars were in a fever of excitement that day, for the hall had to be decorated and a last grand rehearsal
61held. The concert came off in the evening and was a pronounced success. The little hall was crowded; all the performers
62did excellently well, but Anne was the bright particular star of the occasion, as even envy, in the shape of Josie Pye,
63dared not deny. "Oh, hasn't it been a brilliant evening?" sighed Anne, when it was all over and she and Diana were
64walking home together under a dark, starry sky. "Everything went off very well," said Diana practically. "I guess we
65must have made as much as ten dollars. Mind you, Mr. Allan is going to send an account of it to the Charlottetown
66papers." "Oh, Diana, will we really see our names in print? It makes me thrill to think of it. Your solo was perfectly
67elegant, Diana. I felt prouder than you did when it was encored. I just said to myself, 'It is my dear bosom friend who
68is so honored.'" "Well, your recitations just brought down the house, Anne. That sad one was simply splendid."
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