Anne went back to Green Gables calm with despair . `` My last hope is gone , '' she told Marilla . `` I went up and saw Mrs. Barry myself and she treated me very insultingly . Marilla , I do NOT think she is a well-bred woman . There is nothing more to do except to pray and I have n't much hope that that 'll do much good because , Marilla , I do not believe that God Himself can do very much with such an obstinate person as Mrs. Barry . '' `` Anne , you should n't say such things '' rebuked Marilla , striving to overcome that unholy tendency to laughter which she was dismayed to find growing upon her . And indeed , when she told the whole story to Matthew that night , she did laugh heartily over Anne 's tribulations . But when she slipped into the east gable before going to bed and found that Anne had cried herself to sleep an unaccustomed softness crept into her face . `` Poor little soul , '' she murmured , lifting a loose curl of hair from the child 's tear-stained face . Then she bent down and kissed the flushed cheek on the pillow . CHAPTER XVII . A New Interest in Life THE next afternoon Anne , bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window , happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad 's Bubble beckoning mysteriously . In a trice Anne was out of the house and flying down to the hollow , astonishment and hope struggling in her expressive eyes . But the hope faded when she saw Diana 's dejected countenance . `` Your mother has n't relented ? '' she gasped . Diana shook her head mournfully . `` No ; and oh , Anne , she says I 'm never to play with you again . I 've cried and cried and I told her it was n't your fault , but it was n't any use . I had ever such a time coaxing her to let me come down and say good-bye to you .
She said I was only XXXXX stay ten minutes and she 's timing me by the clock . ''
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