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1"Well, I guess I'll light the lamp and get to work," said Marilla. "I see plainly that you don't want to hear what Miss
2Stacy had to say. You're more interested in the sound of your own tongue than in anything else." "Oh, indeed, Marilla, I
3do want to hear it," cried Anne contritely. "I won't say another word--not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really
4trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't,
5you'd give me some credit for it. Please tell me, Marilla." "Well, Miss Stacy wants to organize a class among her
6advanced students who mean to study for the entrance examination into Queen's. She intends to give them extra lessons
7for an hour after school. And she came to ask Matthew and me if we would like to have you join it. What do you think
8about it yourself, Anne? Would you like to go to Queen's and pass for a teacher?" "Oh, Marilla!" Anne straightened to
9her knees and clasped her hands. "It's been the dream of my life--that is, for the last six months, ever since Ruby and
10Jane began to talk of studying for the Entrance. But I didn't say anything about it, because I supposed it would be
11perfectly useless. I'd love to be a teacher. But won't it be dreadfully expensive? Mr. Andrews says it cost him one
12hundred and fifty dollars to put Prissy through, and Prissy wasn't a dunce in geometry." "I guess you needn't worry
13about that part of it. When Matthew and I took you to bring up we resolved we would do the best we could for you and
14give you a good education. I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not.
15You'll always have a home at Green Gables as long as Matthew and I are here, but nobody knows what is going to happen in
16this uncertain world, and it's just as well to be prepared. So you can join the Queen's class if you like, Anne." "Oh,
17Marilla, thank you." Anne flung her arms about Marilla's waist and looked up earnestly into her face. "I'm extremely
18grateful to you and Matthew. And I'll study as hard as I can and do my very best to be a credit to you. I warn you not
19to expect much in geometry, but I think I can hold my own in anything else if I work hard." "I dare say you'll get along
20well enough. Miss Stacy says you are bright and diligent." Not for worlds would Marilla have told Anne just what Miss
21Stacy had said about her; that would have been to pamper vanity. "You needn't rush to any extreme of killing yourself
22over your books. There is no hurry. You won't be ready to try the Entrance for a year and a half yet. But it's well to
23begin in time and be thoroughly grounded, Miss Stacy says." "I shall take more interest than ever in my studies now,"
24said Anne blissfully, "because I have a purpose in life. Mr. Allan says everybody should have a purpose in life and
25pursue it faithfully. Only he says we must first make sure that it is a worthy purpose. I would call it a worthy purpose
26to want to be a teacher like Miss Stacy, wouldn't you, Marilla? I think it's a very noble profession." The Queen's class
27was organized in due time. Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley, Ruby Gillis, Jane Andrews, Josie Pye, Charlie Sloane, and Moody
28Spurgeon MacPherson joined it. Diana Barry did not, as her parents did not intend to send her to Queen's. This seemed
29nothing short of a calamity to Anne. Never, since the night on which Minnie May had had the croup, had she and Diana
30been separated in anything. On the evening when the Queen's class first remained in school for the extra lessons and
31Anne saw Diana go slowly out with the others, to walk home alone through the Birch Path and Violet Vale, it was all the
32former could do to keep her seat and refrain from rushing impulsively after her chum. A lump came into her throat, and
33she hastily retired behind the pages of her uplifted Latin grammar to hide the tears in her eyes. Not for worlds would
34Anne have had Gilbert Blythe or Josie Pye see those tears. "But, oh, Marilla, I really felt that I had tasted the
35bitterness of death, as Mr. Allan said in his sermon last Sunday, when I saw Diana go out alone," she said mournfully
36that night. "I thought how splendid it would have been if Diana had only been going to study for the Entrance, too. But
37we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person
38sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things. And I think the Queen's class is going to be
39extremely interesting. Jane and Ruby are just going to study to be teachers. That is the height of their ambition. Ruby
40says she will only teach for two years after she gets through, and then she intends to be married. Jane says she will
41devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband
42won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money. I expect Jane speaks from
43mournful experience, for Mrs. Lynde says that her father is a perfect old crank, and meaner than second skimmings. Josie
44Pye says she is just going to college for education's sake, because she won't have to earn her own living; she says of
45course it is different with orphans who are living on charity--they have to hustle. Moody Spurgeon is going to be a
46minister. Mrs. Lynde says he couldn't be anything else with a name like that to live up to. I hope it isn't wicked of
47me, Marilla, but really the thought of Moody Spurgeon being a minister makes me laugh. He's such a funny-looking boy
48with that big fat face, and his little blue eyes, and his ears sticking out like flaps. But perhaps he will be more
49intellectual-looking when he grows up. Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament,
50but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that
51get on in politics nowadays." "What is Gilbert Blythe going to be?" queried Marilla, seeing that Anne was opening her
52Cæsar. "I don't happen to know what Gilbert Blythe's ambition in life is--if he has any," said Anne scornfully. There
53was open rivalry between Gilbert and Anne now. Previously the rivalry had been rather one-sided, but there was no longer
54any doubt that Gilbert was as determined to be first in class as Anne was. He was a foeman worthy of her steel. The
55other members of the class tacitly acknowledged their superiority, and never dreamed of trying to compete with them.
56Since the day by the pond when she had refused to listen to his plea for forgiveness, Gilbert, save for the aforesaid
57determined rivalry, had evinced no recognition whatever of the existence of Anne Shirley. He talked and jested with the
58other girls, exchanged books and puzzles with them, discussed lessons and plans, sometimes walked home with one or the
59other of them from prayer meeting or Debating Club. But Anne Shirley he simply ignored, and Anne found out that it is
60not pleasant to be ignored. It was in vain that she told herself with a toss of her head that she did not care. Deep
61down in her wayward, feminine little heart she knew that she did care, and that if she had that chance of the Lake of
62Shining Waters again she would answer very differently. All at once, as it seemed, and to her secret dismay, she found
63that the old resentment she had cherished against him was gone--gone just when she most needed its sustaining power. It
64was in vain that she recalled every incident and emotion of that memorable occasion and tried to feel the old satisfying
65anger. That day by the pond had witnessed its last spasmodic flicker. Anne realized that she had forgiven and forgotten
66without knowing it. But it was too late.
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