Anne flung the harmless screed across her room and sat down to write an especially nice epistle to Roy . Diana was to be married in five more days . The gray house at Orchard Slope was in a turmoil of baking and brewing and boiling and stewing , for there was to be a big , old-timey wedding . Anne , of course , was to be bridesmaid , as had been arranged when they were twelve years old , and Gilbert was coming from Kingsport to be best man . Anne was enjoying the excitement of the various preparations , but under it all she carried a little heartache . She was , in a sense , losing her dear old chum ; Diana 's new home would be two miles from Green Gables , and the old constant companionship could never be theirs again . Anne looked up at Diana 's light and thought how it had beaconed to her for many years ; but soon it would shine through the summer twilights no more . Two big , painful tears welled up in her gray eyes . `` Oh , '' she thought , `` how horrible it is that people have to grow up -- and marry -- and CHANGE ! '' Chapter XXIX Diana 's Wedding `` After all , the only real roses are the pink ones , '' said Anne , as she tied white ribbon around Diana 's bouquet in the westward-looking gable at Orchard Slope . `` They are the flowers of love and faith . '' Diana was standing nervously in the middle of the room , arrayed in her bridal white , her black curls frosted over with the film of her wedding veil . Anne had draped that veil , in accordance with the sentimental compact of years before . `` It 's all pretty much as I used to imagine it long ago , when I wept over your inevitable marriage and our consequent parting , '' she laughed . `` You are the bride of my dreams , Diana , with the ` lovely misty veil ' ; and I am YOUR bridesmaid . But , alas ! I have n't the puffed sleeves -- though these short lace ones are even prettier . Neither is my heart wholly breaking nor do I exactly hate Fred . '' `` We are not really parting , Anne , '' protested Diana . `` I 'm not going far away .
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