Dora sends one . Heres hers . x. `` Your loving friend DAVID KEITH '' `` P.S. Anne , who was the devils father ? I want to know . '' Chapter XVIII Miss Josepine Remembers the Anne-girl When Christmas holidays came the girls of Patty 's Place scattered to their respective homes , but Aunt Jamesina elected to stay where she was . `` I could n't go to any of the places I 've been invited and take those three cats , '' she said . `` And I 'm not going to leave the poor creatures here alone for nearly three weeks . If we had any decent neighbors who would feed them I might , but there 's nothing except millionaires on this street . So I 'll stay here and keep Patty 's Place warm for you . '' Anne went home with the usual joyous anticipations -- which were not wholly fulfilled . She found Avonlea in the grip of such an early , cold , and stormy winter as even the `` oldest inhabitant '' could not recall . Green Gables was literally hemmed in by huge drifts . Almost every day of that ill-starred vacation it stormed fiercely ; and even on fine days it drifted unceasingly . No sooner were the roads broken than they filled in again . It was almost impossible to stir out . The A.V.I.S. tried , on three evenings , to have a party in honor of the college students , and on each evening the storm was so wild that nobody could go , so they gave up the attempt in despair . Anne , despite her love of and loyalty to Green Gables , could not help thinking longingly of Patty 's Place , its cosy open fire , Aunt Jamesina 's mirthful eyes , the three cats , the merry chatter of the girls , the pleasantness of Friday evenings when college friends dropped in to talk of grave and gay . Anne was lonely ; Diana , during the whole of the holidays , was imprisoned at home with a bad attack of bronchitis . She could not come to Green Gables and it was rarely Anne could get to Orchard Slope , for the old way through the Haunted Wood was impassable with drifts , and the long way over the frozen Lake of Shining Waters was almost as bad . Ruby Gillis was sleeping in the white-heaped graveyard ; Jane Andrews was teaching a school on western prairies .
Gilbert , to be sure , was still faithful , and waded up to Green XXXXX every possible evening .
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