I never really supposed I would , but so many of my loveliest dreams have come true all at once that perhaps this one will , too . Do you think it 's possible ? '' `` Diana Barry lives over at Orchard Slope and she 's about your age . She 's a very nice little girl , and perhaps she will be a playmate for you when she comes home . She 's visiting her aunt over at Carmody just now . You 'll have to be careful how you behave yourself , though . Mrs. Barry is a very particular woman . She wo n't let Diana play with any little girl who is n't nice and good . '' Anne looked at Marilla through the apple blossoms , her eyes aglow with interest . `` What is Diana like ? Her hair is n't red , is it ? Oh , I hope not . It 's bad enough to have red hair myself , but I positively could n't endure it in a bosom friend . '' `` Diana is a very pretty little girl . She has black eyes and hair and rosy cheeks . And she is good and smart , which is better than being pretty . '' Marilla was as fond of morals as the Duchess in Wonderland , and was firmly convinced that one should be tacked on to every remark made to a child who was being brought up . But Anne waved the moral inconsequently aside and seized only on the delightful possibilities before it . `` Oh , I 'm so glad she 's pretty . Next to being beautiful oneself -- and that 's impossible in my case -- it would be best to have a beautiful bosom friend .
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