We are sending you the china dogs . I intended to leave them to you in my will , because you seemed to have sincere affection for them . But Maria and I expect to live a good while yet -LRB- D.V. -RRB- , so I have decided to give you the dogs while you are young . You will not have forgotten that Gog looks to the right and Magog to the left . '' `` Just fancy those lovely old dogs sitting by the fireplace in my house of dreams , '' said Anne rapturously . `` I never expected anything so delightful . '' That evening Green Gables hummed with preparations for the following day ; but in the twilight Anne slipped away . She had a little pilgrimage to make on this last day of her girlhood and she must make it alone . She went to Matthew 's grave , in the little poplar-shaded Avonlea graveyard , and there kept a silent tryst with old memories and immortal loves . `` How glad Matthew would be tomorrow if he were here , '' she whispered . `` But I believe he does know and is glad of it -- somewhere else . I 've read somewhere that ` our dead are never dead until we have forgotten them . ' Matthew will never be dead to me , for I can never forget him . '' She left on his grave the flowers she had brought and walked slowly down the long hill . It was a gracious evening , full of delectable lights and shadows . In the west was a sky of mackerel clouds -- crimson and amber-tinted , with long strips of apple-green sky between . Beyond was the glimmering radiance of a sunset sea , and the ceaseless voice of many waters came up from the tawny shore . All around her , lying in the fine , beautiful country silence , were the hills and fields and woods she had known and loved so long . `` History repeats itself , '' said Gilbert , joining her as she passed the Blythe gate . `` Do you remember our first walk down this hill , Anne -- our first walk together anywhere , for that matter ? ''
`` I was coming home in the twilight from Matthew 's grave -- and you XXXXX out of the gate ; and I swallowed the pride of years and spoke to you . ''
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