`` You 'll look like a perfect queen in it -- you 're so tall and slender . How DO you keep so slim , Anne ? I 'm fatter than ever -- I 'll soon have no waist at all . '' `` Stoutness and slimness seem to be matters of predestination , '' said Anne . `` At all events , Mrs. Harmon Andrews ca n't say to you what she said to me when I came home from Summerside , ` Well , Anne , you 're just about as skinny as ever . ' It sounds quite romantic to be ` slender , ' but ` skinny ' has a very different tang . '' `` Mrs. Harmon has been talking about your trousseau . She admits it 's as nice as Jane 's , although she says Jane married a millionaire and you are only marrying a ` poor young doctor without a cent to his name . ' '' Anne laughed . `` My dresses ARE nice . I love pretty things . I remember the first pretty dress I ever had -- the brown gloria Matthew gave me for our school concert . Before that everything I had was so ugly . It seemed to me that I stepped into a new world that night . '' `` That was the night Gilbert recited ` Bingen on the Rhine , ' and looked at you when he said , ` There 's another , NOT a sister . ' And you were so furious because he put your pink tissue rose in his breast pocket ! You did n't much imagine then that you would ever marry him . '' `` Oh , well , that 's another instance of predestination , '' laughed Anne , as they went down the garret stairs . CHAPTER 2 THE HOUSE OF DREAMS There was more excitement in the air of Green Gables than there had ever been before in all its history . Even Marilla was so excited that she could n't help showing it -- which was little short of being phenomenal .
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