OUR homelight , Gilbert ! Is n't it lovely to see ? '' `` Just one of earth 's many millions of homes , Anne -- girl -- but ours -- OURS -- our beacon in ' a naughty world . ' When a fellow has a home and a dear , little , red-haired wife in it what more need he ask of life ? '' `` Well , he might ask ONE thing more , '' whispered Anne happily . `` Oh , Gilbert , it seems as if I just COULD N'T wait for the spring . '' CHAPTER 15 CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS At first Anne and Gilbert talked of going home to Avonlea for Christmas ; but eventually they decided to stay in Four Winds . `` I want to spend the first Christmas of our life together in our own home , '' decreed Anne . So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas . Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe . She had never been sixty miles away from home before ; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables . Mrs. Rachel had made and brought with her an enormous plum pudding . Nothing could have convinced Mrs. Rachel that a college graduate of the younger generation could make a Christmas plum pudding properly ; but she bestowed approval on Anne 's house . `` Anne 's a good housekeeper , '' she said to Marilla in the spare room the night of their arrival . `` I 've looked into her bread box and her scrap pail . I always judge a housekeeper by those , that 's what . There 's nothing in the pail that should n't have been thrown away , and no stale pieces in the bread box . Of course , she was trained up with you -- but , then , she went to college afterwards . I notice she 's got my tobacco stripe quilt on the bed here , and that big round braided mat of yours before her living-room fire . It makes me feel right at home . ''
XXXXX 's first Christmas in her own house was as delightful as she could have wished .
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