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1When it became noised abroad in Avonlea that Anne Shirley had given up the idea of going to college and intended to stay
2home and teach there was a good deal of discussion over it. Most of the good folks, not knowing about Marilla's eyes,
3thought she was foolish. Mrs. Allan did not. She told Anne so in approving words that brought tears of pleasure to the
4girl's eyes. Neither did good Mrs. Lynde. She came up one evening and found Anne and Marilla sitting at the front door
5in the warm, scented summer dusk. They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in
6the garden and the odor of mint filled the dewy air. Mrs. Rachel deposited her substantial person upon the stone bench
7by the door, behind which grew a row of tall pink and yellow hollyhocks, with a long breath of mingled weariness and
8relief. "I declare I'm getting glad to sit down. I've been on my feet all day, and two hundred pounds is a good bit for
9two feet to carry round. It's a great blessing not to be fat, Marilla. I hope you appreciate it. Well, Anne, I hear
10you've given up your notion of going to college. I was real glad to hear it. You've got as much education now as a woman
11can be comfortable with. I don't believe in girls going to college with the men and cramming their heads full of Latin
12and Greek and all that nonsense." "But I'm going to study Latin and Greek just the same, Mrs. Lynde," said Anne
13laughing. "I'm going to take my Arts course right here at Green Gables, and study everything that I would at college."
14Mrs. Lynde lifted her hands in holy horror. "Anne Shirley, you'll kill yourself." "Not a bit of it. I shall thrive on
15it. Oh, I'm not going to overdo things. As 'Josiah Allen's wife,' says, I shall be 'mejum'. But I'll have lots of spare
16time in the long winter evenings, and I've no vocation for fancy work. I'm going to teach over at Carmody, you know." "I
17don't know it. I guess you're going to teach right here in Avonlea. The trustees have decided to give you the school."
18"Mrs. Lynde!" cried Anne, springing to her feet in her surprise. "Why, I thought they had promised it to Gilbert
19Blythe!" "So they did. But as soon as Gilbert heard that you had applied for it he went to them--they had a business
20meeting at the school last night, you know--and told them that he withdrew his application, and suggested that they
21accept yours. He said he was going to teach at White Sands. Of course he knew how much you wanted to stay with Marilla,
22and I must say I think it was real kind and thoughtful in him, that's what. Real self-sacrificing, too, for he'll have
23his board to pay at White Sands, and everybody knows he's got to earn his own way through college. So the trustees
24decided to take you. I was tickled to death when Thomas came home and told me." "I don't feel that I ought to take it,"
25murmured Anne. "I mean--I don't think I ought to let Gilbert make such a sacrifice for--for me." "I guess you can't
26prevent him now. He's signed papers with the White Sands trustees. So it wouldn't do him any good now if you were to
27refuse. Of course you'll take the school. You'll get along all right, now that there are no Pyes going. Josie was the
28last of them, and a good thing she was, that's what. There's been some Pye or other going to Avonlea school for the last
29twenty years, and I guess their mission in life was to keep school teachers reminded that earth isn't their home. Bless
30my heart! What does all that winking and blinking at the Barry gable mean?" "Diana is signaling for me to go over,"
31laughed Anne. "You know we keep up the old custom. Excuse me while I run over and see what she wants." Anne ran down the
32clover slope like a deer, and disappeared in the firry shadows of the Haunted Wood. Mrs. Lynde looked after her
33indulgently. "There's a good deal of the child about her yet in some ways." "There's a good deal more of the woman about
34her in others," retorted Marilla, with a momentary return of her old crispness. But crispness was no longer Marilla's
35distinguishing characteristic. As Mrs. Lynde told her Thomas that night. "Marilla Cuthbert has got mellow. That's what."
36Anne went to the little Avonlea graveyard the next evening to put fresh flowers on Matthew's grave and water the Scotch
37rosebush. She lingered there until dusk, liking the peace and calm of the little place, with its poplars whose rustle
38was like low, friendly speech, and its whispering grasses growing at will among the graves. When she finally left it and
39walked down the long hill that sloped to the Lake of Shining Waters it was past sunset and all Avonlea lay before her in
40a dreamlike afterlight--"a haunt of ancient peace." There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over
41honey-sweet fields of clover. Home lights twinkled out here and there among the homestead trees. Beyond lay the sea,
42misty and purple, with its haunting, unceasing murmur. The west was a glory of soft mingled hues, and the pond reflected
43them all in still softer shadings. The beauty of it all thrilled Anne's heart, and she gratefully opened the gates of
44her soul to it. "Dear old world," she murmured, "you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you." Halfway down
45the hill a tall lad came whistling out of a gate before the Blythe homestead. It was Gilbert, and the whistle died on
46his lips as he recognized Anne. He lifted his cap courteously, but he would have passed on in silence, if Anne had not
47stopped and held out her hand. "Gilbert," she said, with scarlet cheeks, "I want to thank you for giving up the school
48for me. It was very good of you--and I want you to know that I appreciate it." Gilbert took the offered hand eagerly.
49"It wasn't particularly good of me at all, Anne. I was pleased to be able to do you some small service. Are we going to
50be friends after this? Have you really forgiven me my old fault?" Anne laughed and tried unsuccessfully to withdraw her
51hand. "I forgave you that day by the pond landing, although I didn't know it. What a stubborn little goose I was. I've
52been--I may as well make a complete confession--I've been sorry ever since." "We are going to be the best of friends,"
53said Gilbert, jubilantly. "We were born to be good friends, Anne. You've thwarted destiny enough. I know we can help
54each other in many ways. You are going to keep up your studies, aren't you? So am I. Come, I'm going to walk home with
55you." Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen. "Who was that came up the lane with you,
56Anne?" "Gilbert Blythe," answered Anne, vexed to find herself blushing. "I met him on Barry's hill." "I didn't think you
57and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you'd stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him," said Marilla
58with a dry smile. "We haven't been--we've been good enemies. But we have decided that it will be much more sensible to
59be good friends in the future. Were we really there half an hour? It seemed just a few minutes. But, you see, we have
60five years' lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla." Anne sat long at her window that night companioned by a glad
61content. The wind purred softly in the cherry boughs, and the mint breaths came up to her. The stars twinkled over the
62pointed firs in the hollow and Diana's light gleamed through the old gap. Anne's horizons had closed in since the night
63she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that
64flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship
65were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the
66bend in the road! "'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,'" whispered Anne softly.
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