Let me give you one too . '' Leslie shook her head . `` Not just now , thank you , Anne . I do n't feel like having another dog yet . I do n't seem to have any affection left for another . Perhaps -- in time -- I 'll let you give me one . I really need one as a kind of protection . But there was something almost human about Carlo -- it would n't be DECENT to fill his place too hurriedly , dear old fellow . '' Anne went to Avonlea a week before Christmas and stayed until after the holidays . Gilbert came up for her , and there was a glad New Year celebration at Green Gables , when Barrys and Blythes and Wrights assembled to devour a dinner which had cost Mrs. Rachel and Marilla much careful thought and preparation . When they went back to Four Winds the little house was almost drifted over , for the third storm of a winter that was to prove phenomenally stormy had whirled up the harbor and heaped huge snow mountains about everything it encountered . But Captain Jim had shovelled out doors and paths , and Miss Cornelia had come down and kindled the hearth-fire . `` It 's good to see you back , Anne , dearie ! But did you ever see such drifts ? You ca n't see the Moore place at all unless you go upstairs . Leslie 'll be so glad you 're back . She 's almost buried alive over there . Fortunately Dick can shovel snow , and thinks it 's great fun . Susan sent me word to tell you she would be on hand tomorrow . Where are you off to now , Captain ? ''
`` I reckon I 'll plough up XXXXX the Glen and sit a bit with old Martin Strong .
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