It sounds quite romantic to be ` slender , ' but ` skinny ' has a very different tang . '' `` Mrs. Harmon has been talking about your trousseau . She admits it 's as nice as Jane 's , although she says Jane married a millionaire and you are only marrying a ` poor young doctor without a cent to his name . ' '' Anne laughed . `` My dresses ARE nice . I love pretty things . I remember the first pretty dress I ever had -- the brown gloria Matthew gave me for our school concert . Before that everything I had was so ugly . It seemed to me that I stepped into a new world that night . '' `` That was the night Gilbert recited ` Bingen on the Rhine , ' and looked at you when he said , ` There 's another , NOT a sister . ' And you were so furious because he put your pink tissue rose in his breast pocket ! You did n't much imagine then that you would ever marry him . '' `` Oh , well , that 's another instance of predestination , '' laughed Anne , as they went down the garret stairs . CHAPTER 2 THE HOUSE OF DREAMS There was more excitement in the air of Green Gables than there had ever been before in all its history . Even Marilla was so excited that she could n't help showing it -- which was little short of being phenomenal . `` There 's never been a wedding in this house , '' she said , half apologetically , to Mrs. Rachel Lynde . `` When I was a child I heard an old minister say that a house was not a real home until it had been consecrated by a birth , a wedding and a death . We 've had deaths here -- my father and mother died here as well as Matthew ; and we 've even had a birth here . Long ago , just after we moved into this house , we had a married hired man for a little while , and his wife had a baby here . But there 's never been a wedding before .
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