Di , darling , kiss me good-bye for the last time . Diana Barry will never kiss me again . '' `` Diana Wright will , though . There , mother 's calling . Come . '' Following the simple , old-fashioned way in vogue then , Anne went down to the parlor on Gilbert 's arm . They met at the top of the stairs for the first time since they had left Kingsport , for Gilbert had arrived only that day . Gilbert shook hands courteously . He was looking very well , though , as Anne instantly noted , rather thin . He was not pale ; there was a flush on his cheek that had burned into it as Anne came along the hall towards him , in her soft , white dress with lilies-of-the-valley in the shining masses of her hair . As they entered the crowded parlor together a little murmur of admiration ran around the room . `` What a fine-looking pair they are , '' whispered the impressible Mrs. Rachel to Marilla . Fred ambled in alone , with a very red face , and then Diana swept in on her father 's arm . She did not faint , and nothing untoward occurred to interrupt the ceremony . Feasting and merry-making followed ; then , as the evening waned , Fred and Diana drove away through the moonlight to their new home , and Gilbert walked with Anne to Green Gables . Something of their old comradeship had returned during the informal mirth of the evening . Oh , it was nice to be walking over that well-known road with Gilbert again ! The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom -- the laughter of daisies -- the piping of grasses -- many sweet sounds , all tangled up together . The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world . `` Ca n't we take a ramble up Lovers ' Lane before you go in ? ''
asked Gilbert as they crossed the bridge over the Lake XXXXX Shining Waters , in which the moon lay like a great , drowned blossom of gold .
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