And they were so interested . Two days ago Miss Patty wrote me a note asking me to call ; and then she asked if I would take her gift to you . What would you wish most from Patty 's Place , Anne ? '' `` You ca n't mean that Miss Patty has sent me her china dogs ? '' `` Go up head . They 're in my trunk this very moment . And I 've a letter for you . Wait a moment and I 'll get it . '' `` Dear Miss Shirley , '' Miss Patty had written , `` Maria and I were very much interested in hearing of your approaching nuptials . We send you our best wishes . Maria and I have never married , but we have no objection to other people doing so . We are sending you the china dogs . I intended to leave them to you in my will , because you seemed to have sincere affection for them . But Maria and I expect to live a good while yet -LRB- D.V. -RRB- , so I have decided to give you the dogs while you are young . You will not have forgotten that Gog looks to the right and Magog to the left . '' `` Just fancy those lovely old dogs sitting by the fireplace in my house of dreams , '' said Anne rapturously . `` I never expected anything so delightful . '' That evening Green Gables hummed with preparations for the following day ; but in the twilight Anne slipped away . She had a little pilgrimage to make on this last day of her girlhood and she must make it alone . She went to Matthew 's grave , in the little poplar-shaded Avonlea graveyard , and there kept a silent tryst with old memories and immortal loves .
`` How glad XXXXX would be tomorrow if he were here , '' she whispered .
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