`` Charlie is a nice boy . He 's not to blame for his eyes . '' `` Do n't tell me that ! He is ! He must have done something dreadful in a previous existence to be punished with such eyes . Pris and I are going to have such sport with him this afternoon . We 'll make fun of him to his face and he 'll never know it . '' Doubtless , `` the abandoned P 's , '' as Anne called them , did carry out their amiable intentions . But Sloane was blissfully ignorant ; he thought he was quite a fine fellow to be walking with two such coeds , especially Philippa Gordon , the class beauty and belle . It must surely impress Anne . She would see that some people appreciated him at his real value . Gilbert and Anne loitered a little behind the others , enjoying the calm , still beauty of the autumn afternoon under the pines of the park , on the road that climbed and twisted round the harbor shore . `` The silence here is like a prayer , is n't it ? '' said Anne , her face upturned to the shining sky . `` How I love the pines ! They seem to strike their roots deep into the romance of all the ages . It is so comforting to creep away now and then for a good talk with them . I always feel so happy out here . '' '' ` And so in mountain solitudes o'ertaken As by some spell divine , Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine , ' '' quoted Gilbert . `` They make our little ambitions seem rather petty , do n't they , Anne ? ''
`` I think , if ever any great sorrow came to me , I would come to the pines XXXXX comfort , '' said Anne dreamily .
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