`` I loved you long before I saw you , '' said Jasper . He came close to her and drew her into his arms , tenderly and reverently , all his shyness and awkwardness swallowed up in the grace of his great happiness . In the old garden he kissed her lips and Alice entered into her own . CHAPTER XXVI . UNCLE BLAIR COMES HOME It happened that the Story Girl and I both got up very early on the morning of the Awkward Man 's wedding day . Uncle Alec was going to Charlottetown that day , and I , awakened at daybreak by the sounds in the kitchen beneath us , remembered that I had forgotten to ask him to bring me a certain school-book I wanted . So I hurriedly dressed and hastened down to tell him before he went . I was joined on the stairs by the Story Girl , who said she had wakened and , not feeling like going to sleep again , thought she might as well get up . `` I had such a funny dream last night , '' she said . `` I dreamed that I heard a voice calling me from away down in Uncle Stephen 's Walk -- ` Sara , Sara , Sara , ' it kept calling . I did n't know whose it was , and yet it seemed like a voice I knew . I wakened up while it was calling , and it seemed so real I could hardly believe it was a dream . It was bright moonlight , and I felt just like getting up and going out to the orchard . But I knew that would be silly and of course I did n't go . But I kept on wanting to and I could n't sleep any more . Was n't it queer ? '' When Uncle Alec had gone I proposed a saunter to the farther end of the orchard , where I had left a book the preceding evening . A young mom was walking rosily on the hills as we passed down Uncle Stephen 's Walk , with Paddy trotting before us . High overhead was the spirit-like blue of paling skies ; the east was a great arc of crystal , smitten through with auroral crimsonings ; just above it was one milk-white star of morning , like a pearl on a silver sea . A light wind of dawn was weaving an orient spell .
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