It is just opposite the entrance gates and there 's ` scope for imagination ' in it , as you used to say . Here 's your trunk at last -- and the boys coming to say good night . Must I really shake hands with Charlie Sloane , Anne ? His hands are always so cold and fishy-feeling . We must ask them to call occasionally . Miss Hannah gravely told me we could have ` young gentlemen callers ' two evenings in the week , if they went away at a reasonable hour ; and Miss Ada asked me , smiling , please to be sure they did n't sit on her beautiful cushions . I promised to see to it ; but goodness knows where else they CAN sit , unless they sit on the floor , for there are cushions on EVERYTHING . Miss Ada even has an elaborate Battenburg one on top of the piano . '' Anne was laughing by this time . Priscilla 's gay chatter had the intended effect of cheering her up ; homesickness vanished for the time being , and did not even return in full force when she finally found herself alone in her little bedroom . She went to her window and looked out . The street below was dim and quiet . Across it the moon was shining above the trees in Old St. John 's , just behind the great dark head of the lion on the monument . Anne wondered if it could have been only that morning that she had left Green Gables . She had the sense of a long passage of time which one day of change and travel gives . `` I suppose that very moon is looking down on Green Gables now , '' she mused . `` But I wo n't think about it -- that way homesickness lies . I 'm not even going to have my good cry . I 'll put that off to a more convenient season , and just now I 'll go calmly and sensibly to bed and to sleep . '' Chapter IV April 's Lady Kingsport is a quaint old town , hearking back to early Colonial days , and wrapped in its ancient atmosphere , as some fine old dame in garments fashioned like those of her youth .
Here and there it sprouts out into modernity , but at heart it is still unspoiled ; it is full of curious relics , and haloed by the romance of many legends XXXXX the past .
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