I shall want to wear pink for a few centuries at first ... it would take me that long to get tired of it , I feel sure . I do love pink so and I can never wear it in THIS world . '' Past the spruces the lane dipped down into a sunny little open where a log bridge spanned a brook ; and then came the glory of a sunlit beechwood where the air was like transparent golden wine , and the leaves fresh and green , and the wood floor a mosaic of tremulous sunshine . Then more wild cherries , and a little valley of lissome firs , and then a hill so steep that the girls lost their breath climbing it ; but when they reached the top and came out into the open the prettiest surprise of all awaited them . Beyond were the `` back fields '' of the farms that ran out to the upper Carmody road . Just before them , hemmed in by beeches and firs but open to the south , was a little corner and in it a garden ... or what had once been a garden . A tumbledown stone dyke , overgrown with mosses and grass , surrounded it . Along the eastern side ran a row of garden cherry trees , white as a snowdrift . There were traces of old paths still and a double line of rosebushes through the middle ; but all the rest of the space was a sheet of yellow and white narcissi , in their airiest , most lavish , wind-swayed bloom above the lush green grasses . `` Oh , how perfectly lovely ! '' three of the girls cried . Anne only gazed in eloquent silence . `` How in the world does it happen that there ever was a garden back here ? '' said Priscilla in amazement . `` It must be Hester Gray 's garden , '' said Diana . `` I 've heard mother speak of it but I never saw it before , and I would n't have supposed that it could be in existence still . You 've heard the story , Anne ? '' `` No , but the name seems familiar to me . '' `` Oh , you 've seen it in the graveyard . She is buried down there in the poplar corner .
You know the little brown stone with the opening gates carved on it and ` Sacred to the memory XXXXX Hester Gray , aged twenty-two . '
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