He 's signed papers with the White Sands trustees . So it would n't do him any good now if you were to refuse . Of course you 'll take the school . You 'll get along all right , now that there are no Pyes going . Josie was the last of them , and a good thing she was , that 's what . There 's been some Pye or other going to Avonlea school for the last twenty years , and I guess their mission in life was to keep school teachers reminded that earth is n't their home . Bless my heart ! What does all that winking and blinking at the Barry gable mean ? '' `` Diana is signaling for me to go over , '' laughed Anne . `` You know we keep up the old custom . Excuse me while I run over and see what she wants . '' Anne ran down the clover slope like a deer , and disappeared in the firry shadows of the Haunted Wood . Mrs. Lynde looked after her indulgently . `` There 's a good deal of the child about her yet in some ways . '' `` There 's a good deal more of the woman about her in others , '' retorted Marilla , with a momentary return of her old crispness . But crispness was no longer Marilla 's distinguishing characteristic . As Mrs. Lynde told her Thomas that night . `` Marilla Cuthbert has got MELLOW . That 's what . '' Anne went to the little Avonlea graveyard the next evening to put fresh flowers on Matthew 's grave and water the Scotch rosebush .
She lingered there until dusk , liking the peace and calm of the little place , XXXXX its poplars whose rustle was like low , friendly speech , and its whispering grasses growing at will among the graves .
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