`` I thought of something last night that we could do , Anne . You know that three-cornered piece of ground where the roads from Carmody and Newbridge and White Sands meet ? It 's all grown over with young spruce ; but would n't it be nice to have them all cleared out , and just leave the two or three birch trees that are on it ? '' `` Splendid , '' agreed Anne gaily . `` And have a rustic seat put under the birches . And when spring comes we 'll have a flower-bed made in the middle of it and plant geraniums . '' `` Yes ; only we 'll have to devise some way of getting old Mrs. Hiram Sloane to keep her cow off the road , or she 'll eat our geraniums up , '' laughed Diana . `` I begin to see what you mean by educating public sentiment , Anne . There 's the old Boulter house now . Did you ever see such a rookery ? And perched right close to the road too . An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out . '' `` I think an old , deserted house is such a sad sight , '' said Anne dreamily . `` It always seems to me to be thinking about its past and mourning for its old-time joys . Marilla says that a large family was raised in that old house long ago , and that it was a real pretty place , with a lovely garden and roses climbing all over it . It was full of little children and laughter and songs ; and now it is empty , and nothing ever wanders through it but the wind . How lonely and sorrowful it must feel ! Perhaps they all come back on moonlit nights ... the ghosts of the little children of long ago and the roses and the songs ... and for a little while the old house can dream it is young and joyous again . '' Diana shook her head . `` I never imagine things like that about places now , Anne .
Do n't you remember how cross mother and XXXXX were when we imagined ghosts into the Haunted Wood ?
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