I s ` pose I should n't have let him go so meek but I was timid and frightened of father . Besides , I did n't know men were so skurse . '' When the girls were safely away , Diana driving and Anne holding the coveted platter carefully on her lap , the green , rain-freshened solitudes of the Tory Road were enlivened by ripples of girlish laughter . `` I 'll amuse your Aunt Josephine with the ` strange eventful history ' of this afternoon when I go to town tomorrow . We 've had a rather trying time but it 's over now . I 've got the platter , and that rain has laid the dust beautifully . So ` all 's well that ends well . ' '' `` We 're not home yet , '' said Diana rather pessimistically , `` and there 's no telling what may happen before we are . You 're such a girl to have adventures , Anne . '' `` Having adventures comes natural to some people , '' said Anne serenely . `` You just have a gift for them or you have n't . '' XIX Just a Happy Day `` After all , '' Anne had said to Marilla once , `` I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures , following one another softly , like pearls slipping off a string . '' Life at Green Gables was full of just such days , for Anne 's adventures and misadventures , like those of other people , did not all happen at once , but were sprinkled over the year , with long stretches of harmless , happy days between , filled with work and dreams and laughter and lessons . Such a day came late in August . In the forenoon Anne and Diana rowed the delighted twins down the pond to the sandshore to pick `` sweet grass '' and paddle in the surf , over which the wind was harping an old lyric learned when the world was young . In the afternoon Anne walked down to the old Irving place to see Paul . She found him stretched out on the grassy bank beside the thick fir grove that sheltered the house on the north , absorbed in a book of fairy tales . He sprang up radiantly at sight of her . `` Oh , I 'm so glad you 've come , teacher , '' he said eagerly , `` because Grandma 's away . You 'll stay and have tea with me , wo n't you ?
It 's so lonesome XXXXX have tea all by oneself .
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