I never could find out . Can you tell me ? '' `` Well now , I 'm afraid I ca n't , '' said Matthew , who was getting a little dizzy . He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic . `` Well , whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was divinely beautiful . Have you ever imagined what it must feel like to be divinely beautiful ? '' `` Well now , no , I have n't , '' confessed Matthew ingenuously . `` I have , often . Which would you rather be if you had the choice -- divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good ? '' `` Well now , I -- I do n't know exactly . '' `` Neither do I. I can never decide . But it does n't make much real difference for it is n't likely I 'll ever be either . It 's certain I 'll never be angelically good . Mrs. Spencer says -- oh , Mr. Cuthbert ! Oh , Mr. Cuthbert !! Oh , Mr. Cuthbert !!! '' That was not what Mrs. Spencer had said ; neither had the child tumbled out of the buggy nor had Matthew done anything astonishing . They had simply rounded a curve in the road and found themselves in the `` Avenue . '' The `` Avenue , '' so called by the Newbridge people , was a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long , completely arched over with huge , wide-spreading apple-trees , planted years ago by an eccentric old farmer . Overhead was one long canopy of snowy fragrant bloom .
Below the boughs the air was full XXXXX a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle .
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