He got so feeble in the fall that I was afraid he could n't live long -- but I hoped I could nurse him through the winter . He seemed pretty well this morning . He was lying on the rug before the fire ; then , all at once , he got up and crept over to me ; he put his head on my lap and gave me one loving look out of his big , soft , dog eyes -- and then he just shivered and died . I shall miss him so . '' `` Let me give you another dog , Leslie , '' said Anne . `` I 'm getting a lovely Gordon setter for a Christmas present for Gilbert . Let me give you one too . '' Leslie shook her head . `` Not just now , thank you , Anne . I do n't feel like having another dog yet . I do n't seem to have any affection left for another . Perhaps -- in time -- I 'll let you give me one . I really need one as a kind of protection . But there was something almost human about Carlo -- it would n't be DECENT to fill his place too hurriedly , dear old fellow . '' Anne went to Avonlea a week before Christmas and stayed until after the holidays . Gilbert came up for her , and there was a glad New Year celebration at Green Gables , when Barrys and Blythes and Wrights assembled to devour a dinner which had cost Mrs. Rachel and Marilla much careful thought and preparation . When they went back to Four Winds the little house was almost drifted over , for the third storm of a winter that was to prove phenomenally stormy had whirled up the harbor and heaped huge snow mountains about everything it encountered . But Captain Jim had shovelled out doors and paths , and Miss Cornelia had come down and kindled the hearth-fire . `` It 's good to see you back , Anne , dearie ! But did you ever see such drifts ?
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