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Have you really forgiven me my old fault?"

Anne laughed and tried unsuccessfully to withdraw her hand.

"I forgave you that day by the pond landing, although I didn't know

it. What a stubborn little goose I was. I've been--I may as well make a

complete confession--I've been sorry ever since."

"We are going to be the best of friends," said Gilbert, jubilantly. "We

were born to be good friends, Anne. You've thwarted destiny enough. I

know we can help each other in many ways. You are going to keep up your

studies, aren't you? So am I. Come, I'm going to walk home with you."

Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen.

"Who was that came up the lane with you, Anne?"

"Gilbert Blythe," answered Anne, vexed to find herself blushing. "I met

him on Barry's hill."

"I didn't think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you'd

stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him," said Marilla with a

dry smile.

"We haven't been--we've been good enemies. But we have decided that it

will be much more sensible to be good friends in the future. Were we

really there half an hour? It seemed just a few minutes. But, you see,

we have five years' lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla."

Anne sat long at her window that night companioned by a glad content.

The wind purred softly in the cherry boughs, and the mint breaths came

up to her. The stars twinkled over the pointed firs in the hollow and

Diana's light gleamed through the old gap.

Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after

coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be

narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it.

The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship

were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her

ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!

"'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,'" whispered Anne

softly.

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