I 'm going to need all my strength of mind to bear up against this , Grandma , and I wo n't have any left to grapple with porridge . Oh Grandma , I do n't know what I 'll do when my beautiful teacher goes away . Milty Boulter says he bets Jane Andrews will get the school . I suppose Miss Andrews is very nice . But I know she wo n't understand things like Miss Shirley . '' Diana also took a very pessimistic view of affairs . `` It will be horribly lonesome here next winter , '' she mourned , one twilight when the moonlight was raining `` airy silver '' through the cherry boughs and filling the east gable with a soft , dream-like radiance in which the two girls sat and talked , Anne on her low rocker by the window , Diana sitting Turkfashion on the bed . `` You and Gilbert will be gone ... and the Allans too . They are going to call Mr. Allan to Charlottetown and of course he 'll accept . It 's too mean . We 'll be vacant all winter , I suppose , and have to listen to a long string of candidates ... and half of them wo n't be any good . '' `` I hope they wo n't call Mr. Baxter from East Grafton here , anyhow , '' said Anne decidedly . `` He wants the call but he does preach such gloomy sermons . Mr. Bell says he 's a minister of the old school , but Mrs. Lynde says there 's nothing whatever the matter with him but indigestion . His wife is n't a very good cook , it seems , and Mrs. Lynde says that when a man has to eat sour bread two weeks out of three his theology is bound to get a kink in it somewhere . Mrs. Allan feels very badly about going away . She says everybody has been so kind to her since she came here as a bride that she feels as if she were leaving lifelong friends . And then , there 's the baby 's grave , you know . She says she does n't see how she can go away and leave that ... it was such a little mite of a thing and only three months old , and she says she is afraid it will miss its mother , although she knows better and would n't say so to Mr. Allan for anything . She says she has slipped through the birch grove back of the manse nearly every night to the graveyard and sung a little lullaby to it .
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