ven't we, Anne-girl?" said Gilbert,
his voice full of feeling.

Anne choked, unable to answer. Gilbert waited for her at the fir-tree
gate, while she went over the house and said farewell to every room.
She was going away; but the old house would still be there, looking
seaward through its quaint windows. The autumn winds would blow around
it mournfully, and the gray rain would beat upon it and the white mists
would come in from the sea to enfold it; and the moonlight would fall
over it and light up the old paths where the schoolmaster and his bride
had walked. There on that old harbor shore the charm of story would
linger; the wind would still whistle alluringly over the silver
sand-dunes; the waves would still call from the red rock-coves.

"But we will be gone," said Anne through her tears.

She went out, closing and locking the door behind her. Gilbert was
waiting for her with a smile. The lighthouse star was gleaming
northward. The little garden, where only marigolds still bloomed, was
already hooding itself in shadows.

Anne knelt down and kissed the worn old step which she had crossed as a
bride.

"Good-bye, dear little house of dreams," she said.

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