And I had a hand in bringing it about . Perhaps , as Mrs. Lynde says , everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway . But even so , it 's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination . Yes indeed , it 's very romantic . '' `` I ca n't see that it 's so terribly romantic at all , '' said Marilla rather crisply . Marilla thought Anne was too worked up about it and had plenty to do with getting ready for college without `` traipsing '' to Echo Lodge two days out of three helping Miss Lavendar . `` In the first place two young fools quarrel and turn sulky ; then Steve Irving goes to the States and after a spell gets married up there and is perfectly happy from all accounts . Then his wife dies and after a decent interval he thinks he 'll come home and see if his first fancy 'll have him . Meanwhile , she 's been living single , probably because nobody nice enough came along to want her , and they meet and agree to be married after all . Now , where is the romance in all that ? '' `` Oh , there is n't any , when you put it that way , '' gasped Anne , rather as if somebody had thrown cold water over her . `` I suppose that 's how it looks in prose . But it 's very different if you look at it through poetry ... and I think it 's nicer ... '' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed ... `` to look at it through poetry . '' Marilla glanced at the radiant young face and refrained from further sarcastic comments . Perhaps some realization came to her that after all it was better to have , like Anne , `` the vision and the faculty divine '' ... that gift which the world can not bestow or take away , of looking at life through some transfiguring ... or revealing ? ... medium , whereby everything seemed apparelled in celestial light , wearing a glory and a freshness not visible to those who , like herself and Charlotta the Fourth , looked at things only through prose . `` When 's the wedding to be ? '' she asked after a pause . `` The last Wednesday in August . They are to be married in the garden under the honeysuckle trellis ... the very spot where Mr. Irving proposed to her twenty-five years ago .
Marilla , XXXXX IS romantic , even in prose .
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