So I 'll stay here and keep Patty 's Place warm for you . '' Anne went home with the usual joyous anticipations -- which were not wholly fulfilled . She found Avonlea in the grip of such an early , cold , and stormy winter as even the `` oldest inhabitant '' could not recall . Green Gables was literally hemmed in by huge drifts . Almost every day of that ill-starred vacation it stormed fiercely ; and even on fine days it drifted unceasingly . No sooner were the roads broken than they filled in again . It was almost impossible to stir out . The A.V.I.S. tried , on three evenings , to have a party in honor of the college students , and on each evening the storm was so wild that nobody could go , so they gave up the attempt in despair . Anne , despite her love of and loyalty to Green Gables , could not help thinking longingly of Patty 's Place , its cosy open fire , Aunt Jamesina 's mirthful eyes , the three cats , the merry chatter of the girls , the pleasantness of Friday evenings when college friends dropped in to talk of grave and gay . Anne was lonely ; Diana , during the whole of the holidays , was imprisoned at home with a bad attack of bronchitis . She could not come to Green Gables and it was rarely Anne could get to Orchard Slope , for the old way through the Haunted Wood was impassable with drifts , and the long way over the frozen Lake of Shining Waters was almost as bad . Ruby Gillis was sleeping in the white-heaped graveyard ; Jane Andrews was teaching a school on western prairies . Gilbert , to be sure , was still faithful , and waded up to Green Gables every possible evening . But Gilbert 's visits were not what they once were . Anne almost dreaded them . It was very disconcerting to look up in the midst of a sudden silence and find Gilbert 's hazel eyes fixed upon her with a quite unmistakable expression in their grave depths ; and it was still more disconcerting to find herself blushing hotly and uncomfortably under his gaze , just as if -- just as if -- well , it was very embarrassing . Anne wished herself back at Patty 's Place , where there was always somebody else about to take the edge off a delicate situation . At Green Gables Marilla went promptly to Mrs. Lynde 's domain when Gilbert came and insisted on taking the twins with her . The significance of this was unmistakable and Anne was in a helpless fury over it . Davy , however , was perfectly happy .
He reveled in getting out XXXXX the morning and shoveling out the paths to the well and henhouse .
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