If I hadn't felt so much like the aforesaid elephant I'd have gone to her.

But I couldn't lumber across that big hall with all those boys howling on the stairs.

She was the prettiest freshette I saw today, but probably favor is deceitful and even beauty is vain on your first day at Redmond," concluded Priscilla with a laugh.
"I'm going across to Old St.John's after lunch," said Anne.

"I don't know that a graveyard is a very good place to go to get cheered up, but it seems the only get-at-able place where there are trees, and trees I must have.

I'll sit on one of those old slabs and shut my eyes and imagine I'm in the Avonlea woods." Anne did not do that, however, for she found enough of interest in Old St.John's to keep her eyes wide open.