Not exactly up to the level of Keats or Shakespeare -- even Anne was not so deeply in love as to think that . But it was very tolerable magazine verse . And it was addressed to HER -- not to Laura or Beatrice or the Maid of Athens , but to her , Anne Shirley . To be told in rhythmical cadences that her eyes were stars of the morning -- that her cheek had the flush it stole from the sunrise -- that her lips were redder than the roses of Paradise , was thrillingly romantic . Gilbert would never have dreamed of writing a sonnet to her eyebrows . But then , Gilbert could see a joke . She had once told Roy a funny story -- and he had not seen the point of it . She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it , and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run . But who could expect a melancholy , inscrutable hero to see the humorous side of things ? It would be flatly unreasonable . Chapter XXVIII A June Evening `` I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June , '' said Anne , as she came through the spice and bloom of the twilit orchard to the front door steps , where Marilla and Mrs. Rachel were sitting , talking over Mrs. Samson Coates ' funeral , which they had attended that day . Dora sat between them , diligently studying her lessons ; but Davy was sitting tailor-fashion on the grass , looking as gloomy and depressed as his single dimple would let him . `` You 'd get tired of it , '' said Marilla , with a sigh . `` I daresay ; but just now I feel that it would take me a long time to get tired of it , if it were all as charming as today . Everything loves June . Davy-boy , why this melancholy November face in blossom-time ? '' `` I 'm just sick and tired of living , '' said the youthful pessimist . `` At ten years ? Dear me , how sad ! '' `` I 'm not making fun , '' said Davy with dignity .
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