They had talked them over and planned them out until an ideal Avonlea existed in their minds , if nowhere else . Mrs. Rachel had still another item of news . `` They 've given the Carmody school to a Priscilla Grant . Did n't you go to Queen 's with a girl of that name , Anne ? '' `` Yes , indeed . Priscilla to teach at Carmody ! How perfectly lovely ! '' exclaimed Anne , her gray eyes lighting up until they looked like evening stars , causing Mrs. Lynde to wonder anew if she would ever get it settled to her satisfaction whether Anne Shirley were really a pretty girl or not . II Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure Anne drove over to Carmody on a shopping expedition the next afternoon and took Diana Barry with her . Diana was , of course , a pledged member of the Improvement Society , and the two girls talked about little else all the way to Carmody and back . `` The very first thing we ought to do when we get started is to have that hall painted , '' said Diana , as they drove past the Avonlea hall , a rather shabby building set down in a wooded hollow , with spruce trees hooding it about on all sides . `` It 's a disgraceful looking place and we must attend to it even before we try to get Mr. Levi Boulder to pull his house down . Father says we 'll never succeed in DOING that . Levi Boulter is too mean to spend the time it would take . '' `` Perhaps he 'll let the boys take it down if they promise to haul the boards and split them up for him for kindling wood , '' said Anne hopefully . `` We must do our best and be content to go slowly at first . We ca n't expect to improve everything all at once . We 'll have to educate public sentiment first , of course . '' Diana was n't exactly sure what educating public sentiment meant ; but it sounded fine and she felt rather proud that she was going to belong to a society with such an aim in view . `` I thought of something last night that we could do , Anne .
You know XXXXX three-cornered piece of ground where the roads from Carmody and Newbridge and White Sands meet ?
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