Of course , it was silly -- but it did seem as if we were committing sacrilege . That old spare room has always seemed like a shrine to me . When I was a child I thought it the most wonderful apartment in the world . You remember what a consuming desire I had to sleep in a spare room bed -- but not the Green Gables spare room . Oh , no , never there ! It would have been too terrible -- I could n't have slept a wink from awe . I never WALKED through that room when Marilla sent me in on an errand -- no , indeed , I tiptoed through it and held my breath , as if I were in church , and felt relieved when I got out of it . The pictures of George Whitefield and the Duke of Wellington hung there , one on each side of the mirror , and frowned so sternly at me all the time I was in , especially if I dared peep in the mirror , which was the only one in the house that did n't twist my face a little . I always wondered how Marilla dared houseclean that room . And now it 's not only cleaned but stripped bare . George Whitefield and the Duke have been relegated to the upstairs hall . ` So passes the glory of this world , ' '' concluded Anne , with a laugh in which there was a little note of regret . It is never pleasant to have our old shrines desecrated , even when we have outgrown them . `` I 'll be so lonesome when you go , '' moaned Diana for the hundredth time . `` And to think you go next week ! '' `` But we 're together still , '' said Anne cheerily . `` We must n't let next week rob us of this week 's joy . I hate the thought of going myself -- home and I are such good friends . Talk of being lonesome ! It 's I who should groan .
YOU 'LL be here XXXXX any number of your old friends -- AND Fred !
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