But I 'm really very healthy for all I 'm so thin . I believe I 'm getting fatter , though . Do n't you think I am ? I look at my elbows every morning when I get up to see if any dimples are coming . Diana is having a new dress made with elbow sleeves . She is going to wear it to the picnic . Oh , I do hope it will be fine next Wednesday . I do n't feel that I could endure the disappointment if anything happened to prevent me from getting to the picnic . I suppose I 'd live through it , but I 'm certain it would be a lifelong sorrow . It would n't matter if I got to a hundred picnics in after years ; they would n't make up for missing this one . They 're going to have boats on the Lake of Shining Waters -- and ice cream , as I told you . I have never tasted ice cream . Diana tried to explain what it was like , but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination . '' `` Anne , you have talked even on for ten minutes by the clock , '' said Marilla . `` Now , just for curiosity 's sake , see if you can hold your tongue for the same length of time . '' Anne held her tongue as desired . But for the rest of the week she talked picnic and thought picnic and dreamed picnic . On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and over Wednesday that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves . On Sunday Anne confided to Marilla on the way home from church that she grew actually cold all over with excitement when the minister announced the picnic from the pulpit . `` Such a thrill as went up and down my back , Marilla !
I do n't think I 'd ever really believed until then XXXXX there was honestly going to be a picnic .
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