Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive. - Lucy Maud Montgomery

She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.

But she lay long awake that night, nor did she wish for sleep. Her waking fancies were more alluring than any vision of dreamland. Had the real Prince come at last? Recalling those glorious dark eyes which had gazed so deeply into her own, Anne was very strongly inclined to think he had.

A slender shapely young aspen rose up before them against the fine maize and emerald and paling rose of the western sky, which brought out every leaf and twig in dark, tremulous, elfin loveliness.