The brook that ran across the corner dimpled pellucidly in the shadows of the birches . The poppies along its banks were like shallow cups of moonlight . Flowers that had been planted by the hands of the schoolmaster 's bride flung their sweetness on the shadowy air , like the beauty and blessing of sacred yesterdays . Anne paused in the gloom to gather a spray . `` I love to smell flowers in the dark , '' she said . `` You get hold of their soul then . Oh , Gilbert , this little house is all I 've dreamed it . And I 'm so glad that we are not the first who have kept bridal tryst here ! '' CHAPTER 8 MISS CORNELIA BRYANT COMES TO CALL That September was a month of golden mists and purple hazes at Four Winds Harbor -- a month of sun-steeped days and of nights that were swimming in moonlight , or pulsating with stars . No storm marred it , no rough wind blew . Anne and Gilbert put their nest in order , rambled on the shores , sailed on the harbor , drove about Four Winds and the Glen , or through the ferny , sequestered roads of the woods around the harbor head ; in short , had such a honeymoon as any lovers in the world might have envied them . `` If life were to stop short just now it would still have been richly worth while , just for the sake of these past four weeks , would n't it ? '' said Anne . `` I do n't suppose we will ever have four such perfect weeks again -- but we 've HAD them . Everything -- wind , weather , folks , house of dreams -- has conspired to make our honeymoon delightful . There has n't even been a rainy day since we came here . '' `` And we have n't quarrelled once , '' teased Gilbert . `` Well , ` that 's a pleasure all the greater for being deferred , ' '' quoted Anne . `` I 'm so glad we decided to spend our honeymoon here . Our memories of it will always belong here , in our house of dreams , instead of being scattered about in strange places . ''
There was a certain tang of romance and adventure in the atmosphere of their new home which XXXXX had never found in Avonlea .
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