Captain Jim is always saying it does n't take long to stay an hour . But I 've stayed two -- and oh , but I 've enjoyed them , '' she added frankly . `` Come often , '' said Anne and Gilbert . They had risen and stood together in the firelight 's glow . Leslie looked at them -- youthful , hopeful , happy , typifying all she had missed and must forever miss . The light went out of her face and eyes ; the girl vanished ; it was the sorrowful , cheated woman who answered the invitation almost coldly and got herself away with a pitiful haste . Anne watched her until she was lost in the shadows of the chill and misty night . Then she turned slowly back to the glow of her own radiant hearthstone . `` Is n't she lovely , Gilbert ? Her hair fascinates me . Miss Cornelia says it reaches to her feet . Ruby Gillis had beautiful hair -- but Leslie 's is ALIVE -- every thread of it is living gold . '' `` She is very beautiful , '' agreed Gilbert , so heartily that Anne almost wished he were a LITTLE less enthusiastic . `` Gilbert , would you like my hair better if it were like Leslie 's ? '' she asked wistfully . `` I would n't have your hair any color but just what it is for the world , '' said Gilbert , with one or two convincing accompaniments . You would n't be ANNE if you had golden hair -- or hair of any color but '' -- `` Red , '' said Anne , with gloomy satisfaction . `` Yes , red -- to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours . Golden hair would n't suit you at all Queen Anne -- MY Queen Anne -- queen of my heart and life and home . '' `` Then you may admire Leslie 's all you like , '' said Anne magnanimously .
CHAPTER 13 A GHOSTLY EVENING One evening , a week later , XXXXX decided to run over the fields to the house up the brook for an informal call .
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