`` Oh , I do n't know -- you and Gilbert are such CHUMS . I do n't see how you could help telling him everything . '' `` Everything about my own concerns -- yes . But not my friends ' secrets . '' `` I could n't have HIM know . But I 'm glad YOU know . I would feel guilty if there were anything I was ashamed to tell you . I hope Miss Cornelia wo n't find out . Sometimes I feel as if those terrible , kind brown eyes of hers read my very soul . Oh , I wish this mist would never lift -- I wish I could just stay in it forever , hidden away from every living being . I do n't see how I can go on with life . This summer has been so full . I never was lonely for a moment . Before Owen came there used to be horrible moments -- when I had been with you and Gilbert -- and then had to leave you . You two would walk away together and I would walk away ALONE . After Owen came he was always there to walk home with me -- we would laugh and talk as you and Gilbert were doing -- there were no more lonely , envious moments for me . And NOW ! Oh , yes , I 've been a fool . Let 's have done talking about my folly . I 'll never bore you with it again . ''
`` Here is XXXXX , and you are coming back with us , '' said Anne , who had no intention of leaving Leslie to wander alone on the sand-bar on such a night and in such a mood .
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