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Little Fox Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 13.
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Anne in Trouble Again Marilla walked home one late April evening and realized happily that winter was over.
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She looked affectionately at Green Gables and looked forward to a warm fire and a cup of tea with Anne.
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When she got home, the fire wasn't lit,
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and there was no sign of Anne anywhere.
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Marilla was disappointed and irritated.
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By the time Marilla got dinner ready,
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it was dark, and Anne had still not come home.
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Marilla went upstairs and found Anne lying on the bed,
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face down among the pillows.
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My goodness, said the astonished Marilla.
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Have you been asleep, Anne?
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No, was the muffled reply.
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Are you sick then? asked Marilla anxiously.
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Marilla moved closer to the bed.
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No, but please, Marilla, go away and don't look at me.
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I'll never be able to go anywhere again.
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Anne Shirley, what's the matter? said Marilla.
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Anne turned over.
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Look at my hair, Marilla, she whispered.
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Marilla lifted her candle and looked closely.
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Anne's hair certainly looked very strange.
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Anne, what have you done?
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Why, your hair is green.
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And it was green.
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Never in all her life had Marilla seen anything so ugly as Anne's hair at that moment.
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Yes, it's green, moaned Anne.
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I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair.
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But now I know it's ten times worse to have green hair.
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Anne, Marilla said, I've been expecting something to happen because you haven't done anything strange for two months.
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How did your hair turn green?
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I dyed it.
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Dyed it?
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You dyed your hair?
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Marilla looked at Anne sternly.
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Well, continued Marilla sarcastically.
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I would have dyed it a decent color at least.
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I wouldn't have dyed it green.
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He said it would turn my hair a beautiful raven black.
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protested Anne.
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Who said that?
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The peddler that was here this afternoon.
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I bought the dye from him.
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Anne Shirley, this is what your vanity has done.
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Now give your hair a good wash, Marilla said.
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Anne washed her hair, but it made no difference.
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Oh, Marilla, what can I do?
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People have forgotten my other mistakes.
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Shouting at Mrs. Lynde, making Diana drunk,
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jumping on Miss Barry and cracking a slate on Gilbert Blythe.
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But they'll never forget this one.
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For the next week, Anne went nowhere and washed her hair every day.
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At the end of the week,
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Marilla said firmly, It's no use, Anne.
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Your hair must be cut off.
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Anne nodded and wept.
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Marilla's haircut was very thorough,
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and the result was not pretty.
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Anne's hair was quite short and it made a sensation in school on Monday
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but to her relief nobody guessed the real reason behind her
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haircut however Josie Pye did tell Anne she looked like a
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scarecrow a few weeks later the girls were standing at the brook.
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In the brook was a small boat.
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It was Anne's idea that they act out a poem.
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You must be the lily maid, Anne, said Diana.
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I'm not brave enough to float down the river.
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But it's ridiculous to have a red-headed lily maid, said Anne.
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Your hair is much darker since you cut it, said Diana earnestly.
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really exclaimed
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and flushing with delight then she went back to deciding the
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parts for their skit I'll be the lily maid she agreed reluctantly Ruby you be King Arthur
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and Diana must be Lance a lot
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and lay down in the boat closed her eyes
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and folded her hands on her chest she really looks dead
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whispered Ruby Gillis instead of lilies Diana placed a posy of violets in Anne's hands.
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Now she's ready, said Ruby.
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The girls kissed the lily maid and pushed the boat off.
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For a few minutes, as the boat slowly drifted,
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Anne enjoyed the romance of her journey.
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Then something very unromantic happened.
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The boat began to leak.
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The lily maid was forced to get up and look at the big crack through which water was pouring.
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Anne gave a gasping little scream that nobody heard
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and then she went pale but she stayed calm there was one chance just one
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anne prayed that the boat would keep drifting toward the bridge and float near one of its columns
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the columns were made of old tree trunks with branch stubs that she could sit on
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anne's prayer was answered the boat drifted under the bridge and and scrambled onto a column
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She sat there with no way of getting up or down.
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The boat kept drifting and then sank.
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Ruby and Diana waded farther down the brook,
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and they saw the boat disappear underwater.
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They went white as sheets, shrieked, and ran off.
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For the unlucky Lily made,
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the minutes ticked by, each one like an hour.
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Why didn't someone come?
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Where had her friends gone?
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Suppose nobody came.
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Just when Anne thought she could hold on no longer,
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Gilbert Blythe rode toward her.
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Anne, Shirley, how did you get there? he exclaimed.
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He helped Anne into his boat.
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She sat there furious and soaking wet.
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What happened? asked Gilbert.
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We were playing and I was the lily maid,
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Anne said, not even looking at Gilbert.
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I had to float to Camelot,
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I mean, down the brook.
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The boat leaked, and I had to get out.
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Can you roll me to the bank? asked Anne.
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Gilbert obliged.
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I'm very grateful, said Anne haughtily.
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Anne, he said quickly, I'm sorry I made fun of your hair.
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It was only a joke.
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Besides, it was so long ago.
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Can't we be friends?
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For a moment, Anne hesitated.
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Her heart gave a strange, quick little beat.
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But then the scene of two years ago flashed in her head like it had happened yesterday.
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She hated Gilbert Blythe.
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She would never forgive him.
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No, she said coldly.
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I will never be friends with you, Gilbert Blythe.
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All right.
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Gilbert went down to his boat, his cheeks red.
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I'll never ask you to be friends again, Anne Shirley.
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And I don't care either he rode away furiously as Anne walked home she held her head high
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but she was conscious of an odd feeling regret
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Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 14, The Queen's Class.
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Marilla put her knitting on her lap.
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Her eyes were tired again.
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Anne was curled up on the rug in front of the fire.
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Marilla looked at her with tenderness.
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Anne had no idea of how much Marilla loved her.
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Anne sometimes thought Marilla was hard to please and lacked understanding,
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but she always stopped that thought and remembered what she owed to Marilla.
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Anne, Marilla said abruptly.
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Miss Stacy was here this afternoon.
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Was she?
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Why? asked Anne.
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She came to talk about you, answered Marilla.
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About me?
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Anne looked rather scared.
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Then she flushed and exclaimed,
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Oh, I know what she said.
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I meant to tell you,
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Marilla, honestly I did, but I forgot.
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Miss Stacy caught me reading Ben-Hur in school when I should have been studying Canadian history.
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I was reading it at lunch and was at the chariot race when lunch ended.
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I was dying to know what happened.
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So I opened my history book and put Ben-Hur on my lap.
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It looked like I was studying history.
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I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy looking down at me.
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I was very ashamed, Marilla,
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especially when I heard Josie Pie giggling.
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Marilla listened with a frown.
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Miss Stacy didn't mention that, Anne.
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It's just your guilty conscience.
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Miss Stacy wants to organize a class of students to study for the entrance exam of Queens College.
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She asked Matthew and me if we would like you to join it.
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Would you like to go to Queens College and become a teacher, Anne?
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Oh, Marilla!
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Anne got up from the rug.
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I'd love to be a teacher, but isn't it expensive?
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Don't worry about that, Marilla said.
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Education is important for girls as much as boys.
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Oh, thank you, Marilla.
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I'll study as hard as I can,
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though I warn you not to expect much in geometry, Anne said.
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The Queen's class was organized.
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Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley, Ruby Gillis,
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Josie Pye, and Charlie Sloan joined.
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Diana Berry did not, as her parents did not intend to send her to Queen's College.
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It was the first time that Diana and Anne had been separated in anything.
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When the Queen's class stayed after school for extra lessons,
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Anne saw Diana leave slowly with the others.
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A lump came into Anne's throat,
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and she hid behind her Latin book to hide the tears in her eyes.
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She would never let Gilbert Blythe or Josie Pye see those tears.
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Anne enjoyed the Queen's class very much.
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She chatted away to Marilla.
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Jane and Ruby are studying to be teachers.
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Ruby says she'll study for two years and then get married.
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Jane says she'll never marry because you are paid for teaching,
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but a husband won't pay you anything.
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What is Gilbert Blythe going to be? asked Marilla.
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I don't know what Gilbert's ambition is,
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if he has one, said Anne scornfully.
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Since the day Gilbert had rescued Anne from the bridge and she had not forgiven him,
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Gilbert had steadily ignored Anne.
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He talked and joked with the other girls and sometimes walked them home,
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but he simply ignored Anne,
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and Anne found that it was not pleasant to be ignored.
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Mrs. Lind came to Green Gables one afternoon to find out why Marilla had not come to visit her.
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Matthew had chest pains, Marilla explained.
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And I thought I shouldn't leave him.
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He's all right now, but he gets chest pains more often.
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Sit down, Rachel.
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Will you stay for tea?
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Mrs. Lind and Marilla ate some biscuits Anne had made.
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Mrs. Lind thought the biscuits were delicious.
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Anne has turned out to be a real smart girl, admitted Mrs. Lynde.
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She must be a great help.
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She is, said Marilla.
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And she's steady and reliable, too.
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I was afraid she'd never stop her daydreaming, but she has.
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I trust her with anything now, Mrs. Lynde continued.
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Yes, she really improved these three years, especially in looks.
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You could even say she's pretty.
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Anne enjoyed her vacation thoroughly.
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She and Diana spent most of the time outdoors, walking, rowing, and wandering.
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When September came, she was ready to study.
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The Queen's exam loomed.
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Anne had a nightmare where she was staring at the pass list for the exam.
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Gilbert's name was on top,
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and her name was absent.
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The school year passed quickly.
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Soon June came, and the Queen's exams were held in Charlottetown.
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Dearest Diana, wrote Anne in a letter back home to her friend.
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Today we had the history and geometry exam.
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Geometry was hard.
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Josie Pye said the geometry was so easy a ten-year-old could have done it.
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Oh, Diana, I wish you were here with me.
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Anne returned to Avonlea and waited for the results to be published in the newspaper.
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While she wanted to beat Gilbert Blythe,
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she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla, especially Matthew.
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who said she would beat the whole island.
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That would only happen in her wildest dreams.
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But she hoped she would be among the top ten students.
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Finally, Anne saw Diana racing to Green Gables with a newspaper in her hand.
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Anne sprang to her feet.
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The past list had been printed.
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Anne's head whirled.
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Anne, you've passed!
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Diana cried.
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Passed first!
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You and Gilbert both!
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You've tied!
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Oh, I'm so proud!
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Anne grabbed the paper.
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Yes, she had passed.
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There was her name at the very top of a list of 200.
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That moment was worth living for.
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Everyone from Avonlea had passed.
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They hurried to tell Matthew and Marilla.
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Oh, Matthew, exclaimed Anne.
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I've passed and I'm first,
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or one of the first.
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I'm not vain, but I'm thankful.
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Well, now, I've always said it,
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said Matthew, gazing at the list happily.
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I knew you could beat them all.
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You've done pretty well, I must say,
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Anne, said Marilla, trying to hide her extreme pride.
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We're all proud of you.
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