It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?