She was not to board with the other girls , who all had relatives in town to take pity on them . Miss Josephine Barry would have liked to board her , but Beechwood was so far from the Academy that it was out of the question ; so miss Barry hunted up a boarding-house , assuring Matthew and Marilla that it was the very place for Anne . `` The lady who keeps it is a reduced gentlewoman , '' explained Miss Barry . `` Her husband was a British officer , and she is very careful what sort of boarders she takes . Anne will not meet with any objectionable persons under her roof . The table is good , and the house is near the Academy , in a quiet neighborhood . '' All this might be quite true , and indeed , proved to be so , but it did not materially help Anne in the first agony of homesickness that seized upon her . She looked dismally about her narrow little room , with its dull-papered , pictureless walls , its small iron bedstead and empty book-case ; and a horrible choke came into her throat as she thought of her own white room at Green Gables , where she would have the pleasant consciousness of a great green still outdoors , of sweet peas growing in the garden , and moonlight falling on the orchard , of the brook below the slope and the spruce boughs tossing in the night wind beyond it , of a vast starry sky , and the light from Diana 's window shining out through the gap in the trees . Here there was nothing of this ; Anne knew that outside of her window was a hard street , with a network of telephone wires shutting out the sky , the tramp of alien feet , and a thousand lights gleaming on stranger faces . She knew that she was going to cry , and fought against it . `` I WO N'T cry . It 's silly -- and weak -- there 's the third tear splashing down by my nose . There are more coming ! I must think of something funny to stop them . But there 's nothing funny except what is connected with Avonlea , and that only makes things worse -- four -- five -- I 'm going home next Friday , but that seems a hundred years away . Oh , Matthew is nearly home by now -- and Marilla is at the gate , looking down the lane for him -- six -- seven -- eight -- oh , there 's no use in counting them ! They 're coming in a flood presently . I ca n't cheer up -- I do n't WANT to cheer up . It 's nicer to be miserable ! '' The flood of tears would have come , no doubt , had not Josie Pye appeared at that moment .
In the joy of seeing a familiar face Anne forgot XXXXX there had never been much love lost between her and Josie .
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