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1THE next three weeks were busy ones at Green Gables, for Anne was getting ready to go to Queen's, and there was much
2sewing to be done, and many things to be talked over and arranged. Anne's outfit was ample and pretty, for Matthew saw
3to that, and Marilla for once made no objections whatever to anything he purchased or suggested. More--one evening she
4went up to the east gable with her arms full of a delicate pale green material. "Anne, here's something for a nice light
5dress for you. I don't suppose you really need it; you've plenty of pretty waists; but I thought maybe you'd like
6something real dressy to wear if you were asked out anywhere of an evening in town, to a party or anything like that. I
7hear that Jane and Ruby and Josie have got 'evening dresses,' as they call them, and I don't mean you shall be behind
8them. I got Mrs. Allan to help me pick it in town last week, and we'll get Emily Gillis to make it for you. Emily has
9got taste, and her fits aren't to be equaled." "Oh, Marilla, it's just lovely," said Anne. "Thank you so much. I don't
10believe you ought to be so kind to me--it's making it harder every day for me to go away." The green dress was made up
11with as many tucks and frills and shirrings as Emily's taste permitted. Anne put it on one evening for Matthew's and
12Marilla's benefit, and recited "The Maiden's Vow" for them in the kitchen. As Marilla watched the bright, animated face
13and graceful motions her thoughts went back to the evening Anne had arrived at Green Gables, and memory recalled a vivid
14picture of the odd, frightened child in her preposterous yellowish-brown wincey dress, the heartbreak looking out of her
15tearful eyes. Something in the memory brought tears to Marilla's own eyes. "I declare, my recitation has made you cry,
16Marilla," said Anne gaily stooping over Marilla's chair to drop a butterfly kiss on that lady's cheek. "Now, I call that
17a positive triumph." "No, I wasn't crying over your piece," said Marilla, who would have scorned to be betrayed into
18such weakness by any poetry stuff. "I just couldn't help thinking of the little girl you used to be, Anne. And I was
19wishing you could have stayed a little girl, even with all your queer ways. You've grown up now and you're going away;
20and you look so tall and stylish and so--so--different altogether in that dress--as if you didn't belong in Avonlea at
21all--and I just got lonesome thinking it all over." "Marilla!" Anne sat down on Marilla's gingham lap, took Marilla's
22lined face between her hands, and looked gravely and tenderly into Marilla's eyes. "I'm not a bit changed--not really.
23I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me--back here--is just the same. It won't make a bit of difference
24where I go or how much I change outwardly; at heart I shall always be your little Anne, who will love you and Matthew
25and dear Green Gables more and better every day of her life." Anne laid her fresh young cheek against Marilla's faded
26one, and reached out a hand to pat Matthew's shoulder. Marilla would have given much just then to have possessed Anne's
27power of putting her feelings into words; but nature and habit had willed it otherwise, and she could only put her arms
28close about her girl and hold her tenderly to her heart, wishing that she need never let her go. Matthew, with a
29suspicious moisture in his eyes, got up and went out-of-doors. Under the stars of the blue summer night he walked
30agitatedly across the yard to the gate under the poplars. "Well now, I guess she ain't been much spoiled," he muttered,
31proudly. "I guess my putting in my oar occasional never did much harm after all. She's smart and pretty, and loving,
32too, which is better than all the rest. She's been a blessing to us, and there never was a luckier mistake than what
33Mrs. Spencer made--if it was luck. I don't believe it was any such thing. It was Providence, because the Almighty saw we
34needed her, I reckon." The day finally came when Anne must go to town. She and Matthew drove in one fine September
35morning, after a tearful parting with Diana and an untearful practical one--on Marilla's side at least--with Marilla.
36But when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins,
37where she contrived to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into unnecessary work and kept at it
38all day long with the bitterest kind of heartache--the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready
39tears. But that night, when Marilla went to bed, acutely and miserably conscious that the little gable room at the end
40of the hall was untenanted by any vivid young life and unstirred by any soft breathing, she buried her face in her
41pillow, and wept for her girl in a passion of sobs that appalled her when she grew calm enough to reflect how very
42wicked it must be to take on so about a sinful fellow creature. Anne and the rest of the Avonlea scholars reached town
43just in time to hurry off to the Academy. That first day passed pleasantly enough in a whirl of excitement, meeting all
44the new students, learning to know the professors by sight and being assorted and organized into classes. Anne intended
45taking up the Second Year work being advised to do so by Miss Stacy; Gilbert Blythe elected to do the same. This meant
46getting a First Class teacher's license in one year instead of two, if they were successful; but it also meant much more
47and harder work. Jane, Ruby, Josie, Charlie, and Moody Spurgeon, not being troubled with the stirrings of ambition, were
48content to take up the Second Class work. Anne was conscious of a pang of loneliness when she found herself in a room
49with fifty other students, not one of whom she knew, except the tall, brown-haired boy across the room; and knowing him
50in the fashion she did, did not help her much, as she reflected pessimistically. Yet she was undeniably glad that they
51were in the same class; the old rivalry could still be carried on, and Anne would hardly have known what to do if it had
52been lacking. "I wouldn't feel comfortable without it," she thought. "Gilbert looks awfully determined. I suppose he's
53making up his mind, here and now, to win the medal. What a splendid chin he has! I never noticed it before. I do wish
54Jane and Ruby had gone in for First Class, too. I suppose I won't feel so much like a cat in a strange garret when I get
55acquainted, though. I wonder which of the girls here are going to be my friends. It's really an interesting speculation.
56Of course I promised Diana that no Queen's girl, no matter how much I liked her, should ever be as dear to me as she is;
57but I've lots of second-best affections to bestow. I like the look of that girl with the brown eyes and the crimson
58waist. She looks vivid and red-rosy; there's that pale, fair one gazing out of the window. She has lovely hair, and
59looks as if she knew a thing or two about dreams. I'd like to know them both--know them well--well enough to walk with
60my arm about their waists, and call them nicknames. But just now I don't know them and they don't know me, and probably
61don't want to know me particularly. Oh, it's lonesome!" It was lonesomer still when Anne found herself alone in her hall
62bedroom that night at twilight. She was not to board with the other girls, who all had relatives in town to take pity on
63them. Miss Josephine Barry would have liked to board her, but Beechwood was so far from the Academy that it was out of
64the question; so Miss Barry hunted up a boarding-house, assuring Matthew and Marilla that it was the very place for
65Anne. "The lady who keeps it is a reduced gentlewoman," explained Miss Barry. "Her husband was a British officer, and
66she is very careful what sort of boarders she takes. Anne will not meet with any objectionable persons under her roof.
67The table is good, and the house is near the Academy, in a quiet neighborhood."
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