She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion , and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever . Where was it now -- the glory and the dream ? '' ` So wags the world away , ' '' quoted Gilbert practically , and a trifle absently . Anne wondered if he were thinking of Christine . Oh , Avonlea was going to be so lonely now -- with Diana gone ! Chapter XXX Mrs. Skinner 's Romance Anne stepped off the train at Valley Road station and looked about to see if any one had come to meet her . She was to board with a certain Miss Janet Sweet , but she saw no one who answered in the least to her preconception of that lady , as formed from Esther 's letter . The only person in sight was an elderly woman , sitting in a wagon with mail bags piled around her . Two hundred would have been a charitable guess at her weight ; her face was as round and red as a harvest-moon and almost as featureless . She wore a tight , black , cashmere dress , made in the fashion of ten years ago , a little dusty black straw hat trimmed with bows of yellow ribbon , and faded black lace mits . `` Here , you , '' she called , waving her whip at Anne . `` Are you the new Valley Road schoolma'am ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Well , I thought so . Valley Road is noted for its good-looking schoolma'ams , just as Millersville is noted for its humly ones . Janet Sweet asked me this morning if I could bring you out . I said , ` Sartin I kin , if she do n't mind being scrunched up some . This rig of mine 's kinder small for the mail bags and I 'm some heftier than Thomas ! ' Just wait , miss , till I shift these bags a bit and I 'll tuck you in somehow . It 's only two miles to Janet 's .
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