quakingly , you know , for it seemed so vain and presumptuous to think I could lead the Island . Excuse me a minute , Diana . I must run right out to the field to tell Matthew . Then we 'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others . '' They hurried to the hayfield below the barn where Matthew was coiling hay , and , as luck would have it , Mrs. Lynde was talking to Marilla at the lane fence . `` Oh , Matthew , '' exclaimed Anne , `` I 've passed and I 'm first -- or one of the first ! I 'm not vain , but I 'm thankful . '' `` Well now , I always said it , '' said Matthew , gazing at the pass list delightedly . `` I knew you could beat them all easy . '' `` You 've done pretty well , I must say , Anne , '' said Marilla , trying to hide her extreme pride in Anne from Mrs. Rachel 's critical eye . But that good soul said heartily : `` I just guess she has done well , and far be it from me to be backward in saying it . You 're a credit to your friends , Anne , that 's what , and we 're all proud of you . '' That night Anne , who had wound up the delightful evening with a serious little talk with Mrs. Allan at the manse , knelt sweetly by her open window in a great sheen of moonshine and murmured a prayer of gratitude and aspiration that came straight from her heart . There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future ; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire . CHAPTER XXXIII . The Hotel Concert `` Put on your white organdy , by all means , Anne , '' advised Diana decidedly . They were together in the east gable chamber ; outside it was only twilight -- a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless sky . A big round moon , slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver , hung over the Haunted Wood ; the air was full of sweet summer sounds -- sleepy birds twittering , freakish breezes , faraway voices and laughter . But in Anne 's room the blind was drawn and the lamp lighted , for an important toilet was being made . The east gable was a very different place from what it had been on that night four years before , when Anne had felt its bareness penetrate to the marrow of her spirit with its inhospitable chill .
Changes had crept in , Marilla conniving XXXXX them resignedly , until it was as sweet and dainty a nest as a young girl could desire .
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