`` We 're going for a lovers ' saunter through the land of Evangeline , '' said Phil , `` and then we 'll settle down on Patterson Street . Mother thinks it is terrible -- she thinks Jo might at least take a church in a decent place . But the wilderness of the Patterson slums will blossom like the rose for me if Jo is there . Oh , Anne , I 'm so happy my heart aches with it . '' Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends ; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own . And it was just the same when she went back to Avonlea . This time it was Diana who was bathed in the wonderful glory that comes to a woman when her first-born is laid beside her . Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before . Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled , rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays ? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all . `` Is n't he perfectly beautiful ? '' said Diana proudly . The little fat fellow was absurdly like Fred -- just as round , just as red . Anne really could not say conscientiously that she thought him beautiful , but she vowed sincerely that he was sweet and kissable and altogether delightful . `` Before he came I wanted a girl , so that I could call her ANNE , '' said Diana . `` But now that little Fred is here I would n't exchange him for a million girls . He just COULD N'T have been anything but his own precious self . '' '' ` Every little baby is the sweetest and the best , ' '' quoted Mrs. Allan gaily . `` If little Anne HAD come you 'd have felt just the same about her . '' Mrs. Allan was visiting in Avonlea , for the first time since leaving it .
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