Now , what are your handles ? '' `` She 's Priscilla Grant , '' said Anne , pointing . `` And SHE 'S Anne Shirley , '' said Priscilla , pointing in turn . `` And we 're from the Island , '' said both together . `` I hail from Bolingbroke , Nova Scotia , '' said Philippa . `` Bolingbroke ! '' exclaimed Anne . `` Why , that is where I was born . '' `` Do you really mean it ? Why , that makes you a Bluenose after all . '' `` No , it does n't , '' retorted Anne . `` Was n't it Dan O'Connell who said that if a man was born in a stable it did n't make him a horse ? I 'm Island to the core . '' `` Well , I 'm glad you were born in Bolingbroke anyway . It makes us kind of neighbors , does n't it ? And I like that , because when I tell you secrets it wo n't be as if I were telling them to a stranger . I have to tell them . I ca n't keep secrets -- it 's no use to try . That 's my worst failing -- that , and indecision , as aforesaid . Would you believe it ?
-- it took me half an hour to decide which hat to wear when I was coming here -- HERE , XXXXX a graveyard !
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