Death just came and stared me in the face , until I got so frightened I could have screamed . `` But you wo n't be frightened any more , Ruby , will you ? You 'll be brave , and believe that all is going to be well with you . '' `` I 'll try . I 'll think over what you have said , and try to believe it . And you 'll come up as often as you can , wo n't you , Anne ? '' `` Yes , dear . '' `` It -- it wo n't be very long now , Anne . I feel sure of that . And I 'd rather have you than any one else . I always liked you best of all the girls I went to school with . You were never jealous , or mean , like some of them were . Poor Em White was up to see me yesterday . You remember Em and I were such chums for three years when we went to school ? And then we quarrelled the time of the school concert . We 've never spoken to each other since . Was n't it silly ? Anything like that seems silly NOW . But Em and I made up the old quarrel yesterday . She said she 'd have spoken years ago , only she thought I would n't .
And I never spoke XXXXX her because I was sure she would n't speak to me .
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