Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables #4)

by L.M. Montgomery

For a week after I get back to Green Gables I'm going to be lazy … do absolutely nothing but run free in a green world of summer loveliness. I'll dream by the Dryad's Bubble in the twilight. I'll drift on the Lake of Shining Waters in a shallop shaped from a moonbeam … or in Mr. Barry's flat, if moonbeam shallops are not in season. I'll gather starflowers and June bells in the Haunted Wood. I'll find plots of wild strawberries in Mr. Harrison's hill pasture. I'll join the dance of fireflies in Lover's Lane and visit Hester Gray's old, forgotten garden … and sit out on the back door-step under the stars and listen to the sea calling in its sleep. "And when the week is ended you will be home … and I won't want anything else."