`` But there IS a brook -- and it actually cuts across one corner of the garden . '' `` Then , '' said Anne , with a long sigh of supreme satisfaction , `` this house you have found IS my house of dreams and none other . '' CHAPTER 3 THE LAND OF DREAMS AMONG `` Have you made up your mind who you 're going to have to the wedding , Anne ? '' asked Mrs. Rachel Lynde , as she hemstitched table napkins industriously . `` It 's time your invitations were sent , even if they are to be only informal ones . '' `` I do n't mean to have very many , '' said Anne . `` We just want those we love best to see us married . Gilbert 's people , and Mr. and Mrs. Allan , and Mr. and Mrs. Harrison . '' `` There was a time when you 'd hardly have numbered Mr. Harrison among your dearest friends , '' said Marilla drily . `` Well , I was n't VERY strongly attracted to him at our first meeting , '' acknowledged Anne , with a laugh over the recollection . `` But Mr. Harrison has improved on acquaintance , and Mrs. Harrison is really a dear . Then , of course , there are Miss Lavendar and Paul . '' `` Have they decided to come to the Island this summer ? I thought they were going to Europe . '' `` They changed their minds when I wrote them I was going to be married . I had a letter from Paul today . He says he MUST come to my wedding , no matter what happens to Europe . '' `` That child always idolised you , '' remarked Mrs. Rachel . `` That ` child ' is a young man of nineteen now , Mrs. Lynde . '' `` How time does fly ! ''
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