Mr. Harrison says his pastures are so scorched up that his poor cows can hardly get a bite to eat and he feels guilty of cruelty to animals every time he meets their eyes . '' After a wearisome drive the girls reached Spencervale and turned down the `` Tory '' Road ... a green , solitary highway where the strips of grass between the wheel tracks bore evidence to lack of travel . Along most of its extent it was lined with thick-set young spruces crowding down to the roadway , with here and there a break where the back field of a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stumps was aflame with fireweed and goldenrod . `` Why is it called the Tory Road ? '' asked Anne . `` Mr. Allan says it is on the principle of calling a place a grove because there are no trees in it , '' said Diana , `` for nobody lives along the road except the Copp girls and old Martin Bovyer at the further end , who is a Liberal . The Tory government ran the road through when they were in power just to show they were doing something . '' Diana 's father was a Liberal , for which reason she and Anne never discussed politics . Green Gables folk had always been Conservatives . Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead ... a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast . The house was a very old-fashioned one , situated on a slope , which fact had necessitated the building of a stone basement under one end . The house and out-buildings were all whitewashed to a condition of blinding perfection and not a weed was visible in the prim kitchen garden surrounded by its white paling . `` The shades are all down , '' said Diana ruefully . `` I believe that nobody is home . '' This proved to be the case . The girls looked at each other in perplexity . `` I do n't know what to do , '' said Anne . `` If I were sure the platter was the right kind I would not mind waiting until they came home . But if it is n't it may be too late to go to Wesley Keyson 's afterward . '' Diana looked at a certain little square window over the basement .
`` That is the pantry window , I feel sure , '' she said , `` because this house is just like Uncle Charles ' XXXXX Newbridge , and that is their pantry window .
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