Christmas will seem like a thousand years away . '' `` Everything is changing -- or going to change , '' said Diana sadly . `` I have a feeling that things will never be the same again , Anne . '' `` We have come to a parting of the ways , I suppose , '' said Anne thoughtfully . `` We had to come to it . Do you think , Diana , that being grown-up is really as nice as we used to imagine it would be when we were children ? '' `` I do n't know -- there are SOME nice things about it , '' answered Diana , again caressing her ring with that little smile which always had the effect of making Anne feel suddenly left out and inexperienced . `` But there are so many puzzling things , too . Sometimes I feel as if being grown-up just frightened me -- and then I would give anything to be a little girl again . '' `` I suppose we 'll get used to being grownup in time , '' said Anne cheerfully . `` There wo n't be so many unexpected things about it by and by -- though , after all , I fancy it 's the unexpected things that give spice to life . We 're eighteen , Diana . In two more years we 'll be twenty . When I was ten I thought twenty was a green old age . In no time you 'll be a staid , middle-aged matron , and I shall be nice , old maid Aunt Anne , coming to visit you on vacations . You 'll always keep a corner for me , wo n't you , Di darling ? Not the spare room , of course -- old maids ca n't aspire to spare rooms , and I shall be as ` umble as Uriah Heep , and quite content with a little over-the-porch or off-the-parlor cubby hole . '' `` What nonsense you do talk , Anne , '' laughed Diana . `` You 'll marry somebody splendid and handsome and rich -- and no spare room in Avonlea will be half gorgeous enough for you -- and you 'll turn up your nose at all the friends of your youth . '' `` That would be a pity ; my nose is quite nice , but I fear turning it up would spoil it , '' said Anne , patting that shapely organ .
`` I have n't so many good features XXXXX I could afford to spoil those I have ; so , even if I should marry the King of the Cannibal Islands , I promise you I wo n't turn up my nose at you , Diana . ''
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