They had often gone down like this and nothing could be more convenient for playing Elaine . `` Well , I 'll be Elaine , '' said Anne , yielding reluctantly , for , although she would have been delighted to play the principal character , yet her artistic sense demanded fitness for it and this , she felt , her limitations made impossible . `` Ruby , you must be King Arthur and Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot . But first you must be the brothers and the father . We ca n't have the old dumb servitor because there is n't room for two in the flat when one is lying down . We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite . That old black shawl of your mother 's will be just the thing , Diana . '' The black shawl having been procured , Anne spread it over the flat and then lay down on the bottom , with closed eyes and hands folded over her breast . `` Oh , she does look really dead , '' whispered Ruby Gillis nervously , watching the still , white little face under the flickering shadows of the birches . `` It makes me feel frightened , girls . Do you suppose it 's really right to act like this ? Mrs. Lynde says that all play-acting is abominably wicked . '' `` Ruby , you should n't talk about Mrs. Lynde , '' said Anne severely . `` It spoils the effect because this is hundreds of years before Mrs. Lynde was born . Jane , you arrange this . It 's silly for Elaine to be talking when she 's dead . '' Jane rose to the occasion . Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none , but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute . A white lily was not obtainable just then , but the effect of a tall blue iris placed in one of Anne 's folded hands was all that could be desired . `` Now , she 's all ready , '' said Jane .
`` We must kiss her quiet brows and , Diana , you say , ` Sister , farewell forever , ' and Ruby , you say , ` Farewell , sweet sister , ' both XXXXX you as sorrowfully as you possibly can .
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