`` While I 'm working I do n't think so much . If I 'm idle I imagine everything -- rest is only torture for me . My two boys are on the frightful Somme front -- and Shirley pores day and night over aviation literature and says nothing . But I see the purpose growing in his eyes . No , I can not rest -- do n't ask it of me , Gilbert . '' But the doctor was inexorable . `` I ca n't let you kill yourself , Anne-girl , '' he said . `` When the boys come back I want a mother here to welcome them . Why , you 're getting transparent . It wo n't do -- ask Susan there if it will do . '' `` Oh , if Susan and you are both banded together against me ! '' said Anne helplessly . One day the glorious news came that the Canadians had taken Courcelette and Martenpuich , with many prisoners and guns . Susan ran up the flag and said it was plain to be seen that Haig knew what soldiers to pick for a hard job . The others dared not feel exultant . Who knew what price had been paid ? Rilla woke that morning when the dawn was beginning to break and went to her window to look out , her thick creamy eyelids heavy with sleep . Just at dawn the world looks as it never looks at any other time . The air was cold with dew and the orchard and grove and Rainbow Valley were full of mystery and wonder . Over the eastern hill were golden deeps and silvery-pink shallows .
There was no wind , and Rilla heard distinctly a dog howling XXXXX a melancholy way down in the direction of the station .
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