It seemed as if it would make death so SURE if I SAID I was going to die , or if any one else said it or hinted it . I would n't say it , or even think it . In the daytime , when people were around me and everything was cheerful , it was n't so hard to keep from thinking of it . But in the night , when I could n't sleep -- it was so dreadful , Anne . I could n't get away from it then . Death just came and stared me in the face , until I got so frightened I could have screamed . `` But you wo n't be frightened any more , Ruby , will you ? You 'll be brave , and believe that all is going to be well with you . '' `` I 'll try . I 'll think over what you have said , and try to believe it . And you 'll come up as often as you can , wo n't you , Anne ? '' `` Yes , dear . '' `` It -- it wo n't be very long now , Anne . I feel sure of that . And I 'd rather have you than any one else . I always liked you best of all the girls I went to school with . You were never jealous , or mean , like some of them were . Poor Em White was up to see me yesterday . You remember Em and I were such chums for three years when we went to school ? And then we quarrelled the time of the school concert .
We 've never spoken XXXXX each other since .
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