And you and Gilbert gone -- it will be awfully dull . '' `` Fred will be here , '' insinuated Anne slyly . `` When is Mrs. Lynde going to move up ? '' asked Diana , as if she had not heard Anne 's remark . `` Tomorrow . I 'm glad she 's coming -- but it will be another change . Marilla and I cleared everything out of the spare room yesterday . Do you know , I hated to do it ? 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 XXXXX have our old shrines desecrated , even when we have outgrown them .
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