Perhaps they all come back on moonlit nights ... the ghosts of the little children of long ago and the roses and the songs ... and for a little while the old house can dream it is young and joyous again . '' Diana shook her head . `` I never imagine things like that about places now , Anne . Do n't you remember how cross mother and Marilla were when we imagined ghosts into the Haunted Wood ? To this day I ca n't go through that bush comfortably after dark ; and if I began imagining such things about the old Boulter house I 'd be frightened to pass it too . Besides , those children are n't dead . They 're all grown up and doing well ... and one of them is a butcher . And flowers and songs could n't have ghosts anyhow . '' Anne smothered a little sigh . She loved Diana dearly and they had always been good comrades . But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone . The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her . A thunder-shower came up while the girls were at Carmody ; it did not last long , however , and the drive home , through lanes where the raindrops sparkled on the boughs and little leafy valleys where the drenched ferns gave out spicy odors , was delightful . But just as they turned into the Cuthbert lane Anne saw something that spoiled the beauty of the landscape for her . Before them on the right extended Mr. Harrison 's broad , gray-green field of late oats , wet and luxuriant ; and there , standing squarely in the middle of it , up to her sleek sides in the lush growth , and blinking at them calmly over the intervening tassels , was a Jersey cow ! Anne dropped the reins and stood up with a tightening of the lips that boded no good to the predatory quadruped . Not a word said she , but she climbed nimbly down over the wheels , and whisked across the fence before Diana understood what had happened . `` Anne , come back , '' shrieked the latter , as soon as she found her voice . `` You 'll ruin your dress in that wet grain ... ruin it . She does n't hear me !
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