So I shall immediately become wise and practical and possible . The telephone , as Mr. Harrison concedes , is ' a buster of a good thing ' -- even if you do know that probably half a dozen interested people are listening along the line . '' `` That 's the worst of it , '' sighed Diana . `` It 's so annoying to hear the receivers going down whenever you ring anyone up . They say Mrs. Harmon Andrews insisted that their ` phone should be put in their kitchen just so that she could listen whenever it rang and keep an eye on the dinner at the same time . Today , when you called me , I distinctly heard that queer clock of the Pyes ' striking . So no doubt Josie or Gertie was listening . '' `` Oh , so that is why you said , ` You 've got a new clock at Green Gables , have n't you ? ' I could n't imagine what you meant . I heard a vicious click as soon as you had spoken . I suppose it was the Pye receiver being hung up with profane energy . Well , never mind the Pyes . As Mrs. Rachel says , ` Pyes they always were and Pyes they always will be , world without end , amen . ' I want to talk of pleasanter things . It 's all settled as to where my new home shall be . '' `` Oh , Anne , where ? I do hope it 's near here . '' `` No-o-o , that 's the drawback . Gilbert is going to settle at Four Winds Harbor -- sixty miles from here . '' `` Sixty !
It might as well be six hundred , '' sighed XXXXX .
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