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CHAPTER XX NORMAN DOUGLAS SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING
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"Where are you wandering, Anne o' mine?" asked the doctor, who even yet, after twenty-four years of marriage, occasionally addressed his wife thus when nobody was about. Anne was sitting on the veranda1 steps, gazing absently over the wonderful bridal world of spring blossom, Beyond the white orchard2 was a copse of dark young firs and creamy wild cherries, where the robins4 were whistling madly; for it was evening and the fire of early stars was burning over the maple5 grove6.
Anne came back with a little sigh.
"I was just taking relief from intolerable realities in a dream, Gilbert—a dream that all our children were home again—and all small again—playing in Rainbow Valley. It is always so silent now—but I was imagining I heard clear voices and gay, childish sounds coming up as I used to. I could hear Jem's whistle and Walter's yodel, and the twins' laughter, and for just a few blessed minutes I forgot about the guns on the Western front, and had a little false, sweet happiness."
The doctor did not answer. Sometimes his work tricked him into forgetting for a few moments the Western front, but not often. There was a good deal of grey now in his still thick curls that had not been there two years ago. Yet he smiled down into the starry7 eyes he loved—the eyes that had once been so full of laughter, and now seemed always full of unshed tears.
"I have just finished reading a piece in the Enterprise which told of a couple being married in an aeroplane. Do you think it would be legal, doctor dear?" she inquired anxiously.
"I think so," said the doctor gravely.
"Well," said Susan
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tragic
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destined
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patriotic
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assortment
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malignant
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