As Phil said , it was the difference between being born and being made . `` It 's the dearest place I ever saw , '' said Anne delightedly . `` It gives me one of my old , delightful funny aches . It 's dearer and quainter than even Miss Lavendar 's stone house . '' `` It 's the name I want you to notice especially , '' said Phil . `` Look -- in white letters , around the archway over the gate . ` Patty 's Place . ' Is n't that killing ? Especially on this Avenue of Pinehursts and Elmwolds and Cedarcrofts ? ` Patty 's Place , ' if you please ! I adore it . '' `` Have you any idea who Patty is ? '' asked Priscilla . `` Patty Spofford is the name of the old lady who owns it , I 've discovered . She lives there with her niece , and they 've lived there for hundreds of years , more or less -- maybe a little less , Anne . Exaggeration is merely a flight of poetic fancy . I understand that wealthy folk have tried to buy the lot time and again -- it 's really worth a small fortune now , you know -- but ` Patty ' wo n't sell upon any consideration . And there 's an apple orchard behind the house in place of a back yard -- you 'll see it when we get a little past -- a real apple orchard on Spofford Avenue ! '' `` I 'm going to dream about ` Patty 's Place ' tonight , '' said Anne . `` Why , I feel as if I belonged to it .
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