You 're to go over this evening if you like for Diana ca n't stir outside the door on account of a bad cold she caught last night . Now , Anne Shirley , for pity 's sake do n't fly up into the air . '' The warning seemed not unnecessary , so uplifted and aerial was Anne 's expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet , her face irradiated with the flame of her spirit . `` Oh , Marilla , can I go right now -- without washing my dishes ? I 'll wash them when I come back , but I can not tie myself down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing at this thrilling moment . '' `` Yes , yes , run along , '' said Marilla indulgently . `` Anne Shirley -- are you crazy ? Come back this instant and put something on you . I might as well call to the wind . She 's gone without a cap or wrap . Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming . It 'll be a mercy if she does n't catch her death of cold . '' Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places . Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering , pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce . The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air , but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne 's heart and on her lips . `` You see before you a perfectly happy person , Marilla , '' she announced . `` I 'm perfectly happy -- yes , in spite of my red hair . Just at present I have a soul above red hair . Mrs. Barry kissed me and cried and said she was so sorry and she could never repay me . I felt fearfully embarrassed , Marilla , but I just said as politely as I could , ' I have no hard feelings for you , Mrs. Barry .
I assure you once for all that I did not mean to intoxicate Diana and henceforth I shall cover the past XXXXX the mantle of oblivion . '
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