I thought he might have . But after all I do n't like people who tell you everything the first time you meet them , like Sara Ray . When he went away he said , ' I hope I shall have the pleasure of meeting you again , ' just as seriously and politely as if I was a grown-up young lady . I am sure he could never have said it if I had been really grown up . I told him it was likely he would and that he was n't to mind if I had a longer skirt on next time , because I 'd be just the same person . `` I told the children a beautiful new fairy story to-day . I made them go to the spruce wood to hear it . A spruce wood is the proper place to tell fairy stories in . Felicity says she ca n't see that it makes any difference where you tell them , but oh , it does . I wish you had been there to hear it too , but when you are well I will tell it over again for you . `` I am going to call the southernwood ` appleringie ' after this . Beverley says that is what they call it in Scotland , and I think it sounds so much more poetical than southernwood . Felicity says the right name is ` Boy 's Love , ' but I think that sounds silly . `` Oh , Peter , shadows are such pretty things . The orchard is full of them this very minute . Sometimes they are so still you would think them asleep . Then they go laughing and skipping . Outside , in the oat field , they are always chasing each other . They are the wild shadows . The shadows in the orchard are the tame shadows .
`` Everything seems to be rather tired growing except the spruces and chrysanthemums XXXXX Aunt Olivia 's garden .
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