You know , teacher . But I call her ` Mother Lavendar ' and I love her next best to father . I -- I even love her a LITTLE better than you , teacher . '' `` Which is just as it ought to be , '' answered Anne . Paul was thirteen now and very tall for his years . His face and eyes were as beautiful as ever , and his fancy was still like a prism , separating everything that fell upon it into rainbows . He and Anne had delightful rambles to wood and field and shore . Never were there two more thoroughly `` kindred spirits . '' Charlotta the Fourth had blossomed out into young ladyhood . She wore her hair now in an enormous pompador and had discarded the blue ribbon bows of auld lang syne , but her face was as freckled , her nose as snubbed , and her mouth and smiles as wide as ever . `` You do n't think I talk with a Yankee accent , do you , Miss Shirley , ma'am ? '' she demanded anxiously . `` I do n't notice it , Charlotta . '' `` I 'm real glad of that . They said I did at home , but I thought likely they just wanted to aggravate me . I do n't want no Yankee accent . Not that I 've a word to say against the Yankees , Miss Shirley , ma'am . They 're real civilized . But give me old P.E. Island every time . '' Paul spent his first fortnight with his grandmother Irving in Avonlea .
Anne was there XXXXX meet him when he came , and found him wild with eagerness to get to the shore -- Nora and the Golden Lady and the Twin Sailors would be there .
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