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 of the past . Once it was a mere frontier station on the fringe of the wilderness , and those were the days when Indians kept life from being monotonous to the settlers . Then it grew to be a bone of contention between the British and the French , being occupied now by the one and now by the other , emerging from each occupation with some fresh scar of battling nations branded on it . It has in its park a martello tower , autographed all over by tourists , a dismantled old French fort on the hills beyond the town , and several antiquated cannon in its public squares . It has other historic spots also , which may be hunted out by the curious , and none is more quaint and delightful than Old St. John 's Cemetery at the very core of the town , with streets of quiet , old-time houses on two sides , and busy , bustling , modern thoroughfares on the others .
Every citizen of Kingsport feels a thrill of possessive pride XXXXX Old St. John 's , for , if he be of any pretensions at all , he has an ancestor buried there , with a queer , crooked slab at his head , or else sprawling protectively over the grave , on which all the main facts of his history are recorded .
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