`` He must have proposed to her or she 'd never allow it . '' Anne caught Charlotta the Fourth by her own plump waist and danced her around the kitchen until they were both out of breath . `` Oh , Charlotta , '' she cried gaily , `` I 'm neither a prophetess nor the daughter of a prophetess but I 'm going to make a prediction . There 'll be a wedding in this old stone house before the maple leaves are red . Do you want that translated into prose , Charlotta ? '' `` No , I can understand that , '' said Charlotta . `` A wedding ai n't poetry . Why , Miss Shirley , ma'am , you 're crying ! What for ? '' `` Oh , because it 's all so beautiful ... and story bookish ... and romantic ... and sad , '' said Anne , winking the tears out of her eyes . `` It 's all perfectly lovely ... but there 's a little sadness mixed up in it too , somehow . '' `` Oh , of course there 's a resk in marrying anybody , '' conceded Charlotta the Fourth , `` but , when all 's said and done , Miss Shirley , ma'am , there 's many a worse thing than a husband . '' XXIX Poetry and Prose For the next month Anne lived in what , for Avonlea , might be called a whirl of excitement . The preparation of her own modest outfit for Redmond was of secondary importance . Miss Lavendar was getting ready to be married and the stone house was the scene of endless consultations and plannings and discussions , with Charlotta the Fourth hovering on the outskirts of things in agitated delight and wonder . Then the dressmaker came , and there was the rapture and wretchedness of choosing fashions and being fitted . Anne and Diana spent half their time at Echo Lodge and there were nights when Anne could not sleep for wondering whether she had done right in advising Miss Lavendar to select brown rather than navy blue for her traveling dress , and to have her gray silk made princess . Everybody concerned in Miss Lavendar 's story was very happy . Paul Irving rushed to Green Gables to talk the news over with Anne as soon as his father had told him . `` I knew I could trust father to pick me out a nice little second mother , '' he said proudly .
`` It 's a fine thing XXXXX have a father you can depend on , teacher .
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