`` I 've never really liked diamonds since I found out they were n't the lovely purple I had dreamed . They will always suggest my old disappointment . '' `` But pearls are for tears , the old legend says , '' Gilbert had objected . `` I 'm not afraid of that . And tears can be happy as well as sad . My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes -- when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables -- when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had -- when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever . So give me pearls for our troth ring , Gilbert , and I 'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy . '' But tonight our lovers thought only of joy and never of sorrow . For the morrow was their wedding day , and their house of dreams awaited them on the misty , purple shore of Four Winds Harbor . CHAPTER 4 THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains . `` I 'm so glad the sun will shine on me , '' she thought happily . She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room , when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen . That had not been a happy wakening , for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night . But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions . To it she had come back joyfully after all her absences ; at its window she had knelt through that night of bitter agony when she believed Gilbert dying , and by it she had sat in speechless happiness the night of her betrothal . Many vigils of joy and some of sorrow had been kept there ; and today she must leave it forever . Henceforth it would be hers no more ; fifteen-year-old Dora was to inherit it when she had gone . Nor did Anne wish it otherwise ; the little room was sacred to youth and girlhood -- to the past that was to close today before the chapter of wifehood opened . Green Gables was a busy and joyous house that forenoon . Diana arrived early , with little Fred and Small Anne Cordelia , to lend a hand .
Davy and XXXXX , the Green Gables twins , whisked the babies off to the garden .
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