Gilbert lifted Anne from the buggy and led her into the garden , through the little gate between the ruddy-tipped firs , up the trim , red path to the sandstone step . `` Welcome home , '' he whispered , and hand in hand they stepped over the threshold of their house of dreams . CHAPTER 6 CAPTAIN JIM `` Old Doctor Dave '' and `` Mrs. Doctor Dave '' had come down to the little house to greet the bride and groom . Doctor Dave was a big , jolly , white-whiskered old fellow , and Mrs. Doctor was a trim rosy-cheeked , silver-haired little lady who took Anne at once to her heart , literally and figuratively . `` I 'm so glad to see you , dear . You must be real tired . We 've got a bite of supper ready , and Captain Jim brought up some trout for you . Captain Jim -- where are you ? Oh , he 's slipped out to see to the horse , I suppose . Come upstairs and take your things off . '' Anne looked about her with bright , appreciative eyes as she followed Mrs. Doctor Dave upstairs . She liked the appearance of her new home very much . It seemed to have the atmosphere of Green Gables and the flavor of her old traditions . `` I think I would have found Miss Elizabeth Russell a ` kindred spirit , ' '' she murmured when she was alone in her room . There were two windows in it ; the dormer one looked out on the lower harbor and the sand-bar and the Four Winds light . `` A magic casement opening on the foam Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn , '' quoted Anne softly . The gable window gave a view of a little harvest-hued valley through which a brook ran . Half a mile up the brook was the only house in sight -- an old , rambling , gray one surrounded by huge willows through which its windows peered , like shy , seeking eyes , into the dusk . Anne wondered who lived there ; they would be her nearest neighbors and she hoped they would be nice . She suddenly found herself thinking of the beautiful girl with the white geese .
`` Gilbert thought she did n't belong here , '' mused XXXXX , `` but I feel sure she does .
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