`` They go by contraries , like dreams , often as not . As for that DonNELL woman , she 'll get no DonNELLing from me , I can assure you . The name is DONnell and always has been . The woman is crazy , that 's what . She has a pug dog she calls Queenie and it has its meals at the table along with the family , eating off a china plate . I 'd be afraid of a judgment if I was her . Thomas says Donnell himself is a sensible , hard-working man , but he had n't much gumption when he picked out a wife , that 's what . '' VI All Sorts and Conditions of Men ... and women A September day on Prince Edward Island hills ; a crisp wind blowing up over the sand dunes from the sea ; a long red road , winding through fields and woods , now looping itself about a corner of thick set spruces , now threading a plantation of young maples with great feathery sheets of ferns beneath them , now dipping down into a hollow where a brook flashed out of the woods and into them again , now basking in open sunshine between ribbons of golden-rod and smoke-blue asters ; air athrill with the pipings of myriads of crickets , those glad little pensioners of the summer hills ; a plump brown pony ambling along the road ; two girls behind him , full to the lips with the simple , priceless joy of youth and life . `` Oh , this is a day left over from Eden , is n't it , Diana ? '' ... and Anne sighed for sheer happiness . `` The air has magic in it . Look at the purple in the cup of the harvest valley , Diana . And oh , do smell the dying fir ! It 's coming up from that little sunny hollow where Mr. Eben Wright has been cutting fence poles . Bliss is it on such a day to be alive ; but to smell dying fir is very heaven . That 's two thirds Wordsworth and one third Anne Shirley . It does n't seem possible that there should be dying fir in heaven , does it ? And yet it does n't seem to me that heaven would be quite perfect if you could n't get a whiff of dead fir as you went through its woods . Perhaps we 'll have the odor there without the death . Yes , I think that will be the way .
That delicious aroma must be the souls of the firs ... and XXXXX course it will be just souls in heaven . ''
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