`` I expect Patty 's Place will seem rather small after the Hall of the Kings at Karnak , but I never did like big places to live in . And I 'll be glad enough to be home again . When you start traveling late in life you 're apt to do too much of it because you know you have n't much time left , and it 's a thing that grows on you . I 'm afraid Maria will never be contented again . '' `` I shall leave here my fancies and dreams to bless the next comer , '' said Anne , looking around the blue room wistfully -- her pretty blue room where she had spent three such happy years . She had knelt at its window to pray and had bent from it to watch the sunset behind the pines . She had heard the autumn raindrops beating against it and had welcomed the spring robins at its sill . She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms -- if , when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept , something of her , intangible and invisible , yet nonetheless real , did not remain behind like a voiceful memory . `` I think , '' said Phil , `` that a room where one dreams and grieves and rejoices and lives becomes inseparably connected with those processes and acquires a personality of its own . I am sure if I came into this room fifty years from now it would say ` Anne , Anne ' to me . What nice times we 've had here , honey ! What chats and jokes and good chummy jamborees ! Oh , dear me ! I 'm to marry Jo in June and I know I will be rapturously happy . But just now I feel as if I wanted this lovely Redmond life to go on forever . '' `` I 'm unreasonable enough just now to wish that , too , '' admitted Anne . `` No matter what deeper joys may come to us later on we 'll never again have just the same delightful , irresponsible existence we 've had here . It 's over forever , Phil . '' `` What are you going to do with Rusty ? '' asked Phil , as that privileged pussy padded into the room .
`` I am going to take him home XXXXX me and Joseph and the Sarah-cat , '' announced Aunt Jamesina , following Rusty .
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