Nobody cared anything for me or wanted to be bothered with me . I should have been miserable if it had n't been for that strange little dream-life of mine , wherein I imagined all the friends and love I craved . But when I came to Green Gables everything was changed . And then I met you . You do n't know what your friendship meant to me . I want to thank you here and now , dear , for the warm and true affection you 've always given me . '' `` And always , always will , '' sobbed Diana . `` I shall NEVER love anybody ... any GIRL ... half as well as I love you . And if I ever do marry and have a little girl of my own I 'm going to name her ANNE . '' XXVII An Afternoon at the Stone House `` Where are you going , all dressed up , Anne ? '' Davy wanted to know . `` You look bully in that dress . '' Anne had come down to dinner in a new dress of pale green muslin ... the first color she had worn since Matthew 's death . It became her perfectly , bringing out all the delicate , flower-like tints of her face and the gloss and burnish of her hair . `` Davy , how many times have I told you that you must n't use that word , '' she rebuked . `` I 'm going to Echo Lodge . '' `` Take me with you , '' entreated Davy . `` I would if I were driving . But I 'm going to walk and it 's too far for your eight-year-old legs . Besides , Paul is going with me and I fear you do n't enjoy yourself in his company . ''
`` Oh , I like Paul lots better 'n I did , '' said XXXXX , beginning to make fearful inroads into his pudding .
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