`` This is where the bad wood elves dwell , '' whispered Anne . `` They are impish and malicious but they ca n't harm us , because they are not allowed to do evil in the spring . There was one peeping at us around that old twisted fir ; and did n't you see a group of them on that big freckly toadstool we just passed ? The good fairies always dwell in the sunshiny places . '' `` I wish there really were fairies , '' said Jane . `` Would n't it be nice to have three wishes granted you ... or even only one ? What would you wish for , girls , if you could have a wish granted ? I 'd wish to be rich and beautiful and clever . '' `` I 'd wish to be tall and slender , '' said Diana . `` I would wish to be famous , '' said Priscilla . Anne thought of her hair and then dismissed the thought as unworthy . `` I 'd wish it might be spring all the time and in everybody 's heart and all our lives , '' she said . `` But that , '' said Priscilla , `` would be just wishing this world were like heaven . '' `` Only like a part of heaven . In the other parts there would be summer and autumn ... yes , and a bit of winter , too . I think I want glittering snowy fields and white frosts in heaven sometimes . Do n't you , Jane ? '' `` I ... I do n't know , '' said Jane uncomfortably . Jane was a good girl , a member of the church , who tried conscientiously to live up to her profession and believed everything she had been taught . But she never thought about heaven any more than she could help , for all that .
`` Minnie May asked me the other day XXXXX we would wear our best dresses every day in heaven , '' laughed Diana .
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