`` I 'd like to add some beauty to life , '' said Anne dreamily . `` I do n't exactly want to make people KNOW more ... though I know that IS the noblest ambition ... but I 'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me ... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I had n't been born . '' `` I think you 're fulfilling that ambition every day , '' said Gilbert admiringly . And he was right . Anne was one of the children of light by birthright . After she had passed through a life with a smile or a word thrown across it like a gleam of sunshine the owner of that life saw it , for the time being at least , as hopeful and lovely and of good report . Finally Gilbert rose regretfully . `` Well , I must run up to MacPhersons ' . Moody Spurgeon came home from Queen 's today for Sunday and he was to bring me out a book Professor Boyd is lending me . '' `` And I must get Marilla 's tea . She went to see Mrs. Keith this evening and she will soon be back . '' Anne had tea ready when Marilla came home ; the fire was crackling cheerily , a vase of frost-bleached ferns and ruby-red maple leaves adorned the table , and delectable odors of ham and toast pervaded the air . But Marilla sank into her chair with a deep sigh . `` Are your eyes troubling you ? Does your head ache ? '' queried Anne anxiously . `` No . I 'm only tired ... and worried . It 's about Mary and those children ... Mary is worse ... she ca n't last much longer . And as for the twins , I do n't know what is to become of them . ''
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