And yet it does n't seem to me that heaven would be quite perfect if you could n't get a whiff of dead fir as you went through its woods . Perhaps we 'll have the odor there without the death . Yes , I think that will be the way . That delicious aroma must be the souls of the firs ... and of course it will be just souls in heaven . '' `` Trees have n't souls , '' said practical Diana , `` but the smell of dead fir is certainly lovely . I 'm going to make a cushion and fill it with fir needles . You 'd better make one too , Anne . '' `` I think I shall ... and use it for my naps . I 'd be certain to dream I was a dryad or a woodnymph then . But just this minute I 'm well content to be Anne Shirley , Avonlea schoolma'am , driving over a road like this on such a sweet , friendly day . '' `` It 's a lovely day but we have anything but a lovely task before us , '' sighed Diana . `` Why on earth did you offer to canvass this road , Anne ? Almost all the cranks in Avonlea live along it , and we 'll probably be treated as if we were begging for ourselves . It 's the very worst road of all . '' `` That is why I chose it . Of course Gilbert and Fred would have taken this road if we had asked them . But you see , Diana , I feel myself responsible for the A.V.I.S. , since I was the first to suggest it , and it seems to me that I ought to do the most disagreeable things . I 'm sorry on your account ; but you need n't say a word at the cranky places . I 'll do all the talking ... Mrs. Lynde would say I was well able to . Mrs. Lynde does n't know whether to approve of our enterprise or not .
She inclines XXXXX , when she remembers that Mr. and Mrs. Allan are in favor of it ; but the fact that village improvement societies first originated in the States is a count against it .
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