Anne knew that Ruby meant that she wanted to tell Anne all about her own recent flirtations , but she promised to go , and Diana offered to go with her . `` I 've been wanting to go to see Ruby for a long while , '' she told Anne , when they left Green Gables the next evening , `` but I really could n't go alone . It 's so awful to hear Ruby rattling on as she does , and pretending there is nothing the matter with her , even when she can hardly speak for coughing . She 's fighting so hard for her life , and yet she has n't any chance at all , they say . '' The girls walked silently down the red , twilit road . The robins were singing vespers in the high treetops , filling the golden air with their jubilant voices . The silver fluting of the frogs came from marshes and ponds , over fields where seeds were beginning to stir with life and thrill to the sunshine and rain that had drifted over them . The air was fragrant with the wild , sweet , wholesome smell of young raspberry copses . White mists were hovering in the silent hollows and violet stars were shining bluely on the brooklands . `` What a beautiful sunset , '' said Diana . `` Look , Anne , it 's just like a land in itself , is n't it ? That long , low back of purple cloud is the shore , and the clear sky further on is like a golden sea . '' `` If we could sail to it in the moonshine boat Paul wrote of in his old composition -- you remember ? -- how nice it would be , '' said Anne , rousing from her reverie . `` Do you think we could find all our yesterdays there , Diana -- all our old springs and blossoms ? The beds of flowers that Paul saw there are the roses that have bloomed for us in the past ? '' `` Do n't ! '' said Diana . `` You make me feel as if we were old women with everything in life behind us . '' `` I think I 've almost felt as if we were since I heard about poor Ruby , '' said Anne .
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