We 've had lovely days and delicious twilights . This last fortnight has been so peaceful , and even Davy has been almost well-behaved . I really think he is improving a great deal . How quiet the woods are today ... not a murmur except that soft wind purring in the treetops ! It sounds like surf on a faraway shore . How dear the woods are ! You beautiful trees ! I love every one of you as a friend . '' Anne paused to throw her arm about a slim young birch and kiss its cream-white trunk . Diana , rounding a curve in the path , saw her and laughed . `` Anne Shirley , you 're only pretending to be grown up . I believe when you 're alone you 're as much a little girl as you ever were . '' `` Well , one ca n't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once , '' said Anne gaily . `` You see , I was little for fourteen years and I 've only been grown-uppish for scarcely three . I 'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the woods . These walks home from school are almost the only time I have for dreaming ... except the half-hour or so before I go to sleep . I 'm so busy with teaching and studying and helping Marilla with the twins that I have n't another moment for imagining things . You do n't know what splendid adventures I have for a little while after I go to bed in the east gable every night . I always imagine I 'm something very brilliant and triumphant and splendid ... a great prima donna or a Red Cross nurse or a queen . Last night I was a queen .
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