You have my best wishes , I 'm sure . A long engagement does n't often turn out well . But , of course , in your case it could n't be helped . '' `` Gilbert looks very young for a doctor . I 'm afraid people wo n't have much confidence in him , '' said Mrs. Jasper Bell gloomily . Then she shut her mouth tightly , as if she had said what she considered it her duty to say and held her conscience clear . She belonged to the type which always has a stringy black feather in its hat and straggling locks of hair on its neck . Anne 's surface pleasure in her pretty bridal things was temporarily shadowed ; but the deeps of happiness below could not thus be disturbed ; and the little stings of Mesdames Bell and Andrews were forgotten when Gilbert came later , and they wandered down to the birches of the brook , which had been saplings when Anne had come to Green Gables , but were now tall , ivory columns in a fairy palace of twilight and stars . In their shadows Anne and Gilbert talked in lover-fashion of their new home and their new life together . `` I 've found a nest for us , Anne . '' `` Oh , where ? Not right in the village , I hope . I would n't like that altogether . '' `` No . There was no house to be had in the village . This is a little white house on the harbor shore , half way between Glen St. Mary and Four Winds Point . It 's a little out of the way , but when we get a ` phone in that wo n't matter so much . The situation is beautiful . It looks to the sunset and has the great blue harbor before it . The sand-dunes are n't very far away -- the sea winds blow over them and the sea spray drenches them . ''
`` But the house itself , XXXXX , -- OUR first home ?
Anne Gables Gilbert Mary Point lover-fashion right sand-dunes saplings twilight