`` So Gilbert did n't go back on you after all , '' said Mrs. Harmon Andrews , contriving to convey an expression of surprise in her tone . `` Well , the Blythes generally keep their word when they 've once passed it , no matter what happens . Let me see -- you 're twenty-five , are n't you , Anne ? When I was a girl twenty-five was the first corner . But you look quite young . Red-headed people always do . '' `` Red hair is very fashionable now , '' said Anne , trying to smile , but speaking rather coldly . Life had developed in her a sense of humor which helped her over many difficulties ; but as yet nothing had availed to steel her against a reference to her hair . `` So it is -- so it is , '' conceded Mrs. Harmon . `` There 's no telling what queer freaks fashion will take . Well , Anne , your things are very pretty , and very suitable to your position in life , are n't they , Jane ? I hope you 'll be very happy . You have my best wishes , I 'm sure . A long engagement does n't often turn out well . But , of course , in your case it could n't be helped . '' `` Gilbert looks very young for a doctor . I 'm afraid people wo n't have much confidence in him , '' said Mrs. Jasper Bell gloomily . Then she shut her mouth tightly , as if she had said what she considered it her duty to say and held her conscience clear . She belonged to the type which always has a stringy black feather in its hat and straggling locks of hair on its neck . Anne 's surface pleasure in her pretty bridal things was temporarily shadowed ; but the deeps of happiness below could not thus be disturbed ; and the little stings of Mesdames Bell and Andrews were forgotten when Gilbert came later , and they wandered down to the birches of the brook , which had been saplings when Anne had come to Green Gables , but were now tall , ivory columns in a fairy palace of twilight and stars .
In their shadows XXXXX and Gilbert talked in lover-fashion of their new home and their new life together .
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