You do n't find it right out at first , as in Matthew 's case , but after a while you come to see it . Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think . It 's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world . '' CHAPTER XX . A Good Imagination Gone Wrong Spring had come once more to Green Gables -- the beautiful capricious , reluctant Canadian spring , lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet , fresh , chilly days , with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth . The maples in Lover 's Lane were red budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad 's Bubble . Away up in the barrens , behind Mr. Silas Sloane 's place , the Mayflowers blossomed out , pink and white stars of sweetness under their brown leaves . All the school girls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them , coming home in the clear , echoing twilight with arms and baskets full of flowery spoil . `` I 'm so sorry for people who live in lands where there are no Mayflowers , '' said Anne . `` Diana says perhaps they have something better , but there could n't be anything better than Mayflowers , could there , Marilla ? And Diana says if they do n't know what they are like they do n't miss them . But I think that is the saddest thing of all . I think it would be TRAGIC , Marilla , not to know what Mayflowers are like and NOT to miss them . Do you know what I think Mayflowers are , Marilla ? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer and this is their heaven . But we had a splendid time today , Marilla . We had our lunch down in a big mossy hollow by an old well -- such a ROMANTIC spot . Charlie Sloane dared Arty Gillis to jump over it , and Arty did because he would n't take a dare . Nobody would in school . It is very FASHIONABLE to dare .
Mr. Phillips gave all the XXXXX he found to Prissy Andrews and I heard him to say ` sweets to the sweet . '
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