I don't feel like
having another dog yet. I don't seem to have any
affection left for another. Perhaps--in time--I'll let
you give me one. I really need one as a kind of
protection. But there was something almost human about
Carlo-- it wouldn't be DECENT to fill his place too
hurriedly, dear old fellow ."
Anne went to Avonlea a week before Christmas and stayed
until after the holidays. Gilbert came up for her, and
there was a glad New Year celebration at Green Gables,
when Barrys and Blythes and Wrights assembled to devour
a dinner which had cost Mrs. Rachel and Marilla much
careful thought and preparation. When they went back
to Four Winds the little house was almost drifted over,
for the third storm of a winter that was to prove
phenomenally stormy had whirled up the harbor and
heaped huge snow mountains about everything it
encountered. But Captain Jim had shovelled out doors
and paths, and Miss Cornelia had come down and kindled
the hearth-fire.
"It's good to see you back, Anne, dearie! But did you
ever see such drifts? You can't see the Moore place at
all unless you go upstairs.
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