`` There is n't any one to have . You and Phil and Priscilla and Jane all stole a march on me in the matter of marriage ; and Stella is teaching in Vancouver . I have no other ` kindred soul ' and I wo n't have a bridesmaid who is n't . '' `` But you are going to wear a veil , are n't you ? '' asked Diana , anxiously . `` Yes , indeedy . I should n't feel like a bride without one . I remember telling Matthew , that evening when he brought me to Green Gables , that I never expected to be a bride because I was so homely no one would ever want to marry me -- unless some foreign missionary did . I had an idea then that foreign missionaries could n't afford to be finicky in the matter of looks if they wanted a girl to risk her life among cannibals . You should have seen the foreign missionary Priscilla married . He was as handsome and inscrutable as those daydreams we once planned to marry ourselves , Diana ; he was the best dressed man I ever met , and he raved over Priscilla 's ` ethereal , golden beauty . ' But of course there are no cannibals in Japan . '' `` Your wedding dress is a dream , anyhow , '' sighed Diana rapturously . `` You 'll look like a perfect queen in it -- you 're so tall and slender . How DO you keep so slim , Anne ? I 'm fatter than ever -- I 'll soon have no waist at all . '' `` Stoutness and slimness seem to be matters of predestination , '' said Anne . `` At all events , Mrs. Harmon Andrews ca n't say to you what she said to me when I came home from Summerside , ` Well , Anne , you 're just about as skinny as ever . ' It sounds quite romantic to be ` slender , ' but ` skinny ' has a very different tang . '' `` Mrs. Harmon has been talking about your trousseau .
She admits it 's as nice as XXXXX 's , although she says Jane married a millionaire and you are only marrying a ` poor young doctor without a cent to his name . ' ''
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