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And
now
,
this
thrilling
experience
had
turned
out
to
be
merely
grotesque
Billy
Andrews
had
got
his
sister
to
propose
for
him
because
his
father
had
given
him
the
upper
farm
;
and
if
Anne
would
n't
"
have
him
"
Nettie
Blewett
would
.
There
was
romance
for
you
,
with
a
vengeance
!
Anne
laughed
--
and
then
sighed
.
The
bloom
had
been
brushed
from
one
little
maiden
dream
.
Would
the
painful
process
go
on
until
everything
became
prosaic
and
hum-drum
?
The
second
term
at
Redmond
sped
as
quickly
as
had
the
first
--
"
actually
whizzed
away
,
"
Philippa
said
.
Anne
enjoyed
it
thoroughly
in
all
its
phases
--
the
stimulating
class
rivalry
,
the
making
and
deepening
of
new
and
helpful
friendships
,
the
gay
little
social
stunts
,
the
doings
of
the
various
societies
of
which
she
was
a
member
,
the
widening
of
horizons
and
interests
.
She
studied
hard
,
for
she
had
made
up
her
mind
to
win
the
Thorburn
Scholarship
in
English
.
This
being
won
,
meant
that
she
could
come
back
to
Redmond
the
next
year
without
trenching
on
Marilla
's
small
savings
--
something
Anne
was
determined
she
would
not
do
.
Gilbert
,
too
,
was
in
full
chase
after
a
scholarship
,
but
found
plenty
of
time
for
frequent
calls
at
Thirty-eight
,
St.
John
's
.
He
was
Anne
's
escort
at
nearly
all
the
college
affairs
,
and
she
knew
that
their
names
were
coupled
in
Redmond
gossip
.
Anne
raged
over
this
but
was
helpless
;
she
could
not
cast
an
old
friend
like
Gilbert
aside
,
especially
when
he
had
grown
suddenly
wise
and
wary
,
as
behooved
him
in
the
dangerous
proximity
of
more
than
one
Redmond
youth
who
would
gladly
have
taken
his
place
by
the
side
of
the
slender
,
red-haired
coed
,
whose
gray
eyes
were
as
alluring
as
stars
of
evening
.
Anne
was
never
attended
by
the
crowd
of
willing
victims
who
hovered
around
Philippa
's
conquering
march
through
her
Freshman
year
;
but
there
was
a
lanky
,
brainy
Freshie
,
a
jolly
,
little
,
round
Sophomore
,
and
a
tall
,
learned
Junior
who
all
liked
to
call
at
Thirty-eight
,
St.
John
's
,
and
talk
over
'
ologies
and
'
isms
,
as
well
as
lighter
subjects
,
with
Anne
,
in
the
becushioned
parlor
of
that
domicile
.
Gilbert
did
not
love
any
of
them
,
and
he
was
exceedingly
careful
to
give
none
of
them
the
advantage
over
him
by
any
untimely
display
of
his
real
feelings
Anne-ward
.
To
her
he
had
become
again
the
boy-comrade
of
Avonlea
days
,
and
as
such
could
hold
his
own
against
any
smitten
swain
who
had
so
far
entered
the
lists
against
him
.
As
a
companion
,
Anne
honestly
acknowledged
nobody
could
be
so
satisfactory
as
Gilbert
;
she
was
very
glad
,
so
she
told
herself
,
that
he
had
evidently
dropped
all
nonsensical
ideas
--
though
she
spent
considerable
time
secretly
wondering
why
.
Only
one
disagreeable
incident
marred
that
winter
.
Charlie
Sloane
,
sitting
bolt
upright
on
Miss
Ada
's
most
dearly
beloved
cushion
,
asked
Anne
one
night
if
she
would
promise
"
to
become
Mrs.
Charlie
Sloane
some
day
.
"
Coming
after
Billy
Andrews
'
proxy
effort
,
this
was
not
quite
the
shock
to
Anne
's
romantic
sensibilities
that
it
would
otherwise
have
been
;
but
it
was
certainly
another
heart-rending
disillusion
.
She
was
angry
,
too
,
for
she
felt
that
she
had
never
given
Charlie
the
slightest
encouragement
to
suppose
such
a
thing
possible
.
But
what
could
you
expect
of
a
Sloane
,
as
Mrs.
Rachel
Lynde
would
ask
scornfully
?
Charlie
's
whole
attitude
,
tone
,
air
,
words
,
fairly
reeked
with
Sloanishness
.
"
He
was
conferring
a
great
honor
--
no
doubt
whatever
about
that
.
And
when
Anne
,
utterly
insensible
to
the
honor
,
refused
him
,
as
delicately
and
considerately
as
she
could
--
for
even
a
Sloane
had
feelings
which
ought
not
to
be
unduly
lacerated
--
Sloanishness
still
further
betrayed
itself
.
Charlie
certainly
did
not
take
his
dismissal
as
Anne
's
imaginary
rejected
suitors
did
.
Instead
,
he
became
angry
,
and
showed
it
;
he
said
two
or
three
quite
nasty
things
;
Anne
's
temper
flashed
up
mutinously
and
she
retorted
with
a
cutting
little
speech
whose
keenness
pierced
even
Charlie
's
protective
Sloanishness
and
reached
the
quick
;
he
caught
up
his
hat
and
flung
himself
out
of
the
house
with
a
very
red
face
;
Anne
rushed
upstairs
,
falling
twice
over
Miss
Ada
's
cushions
on
the
way
,
and
threw
herself
on
her
bed
,
in
tears
of
humiliation
and
rage
.
Had
she
actually
stooped
to
quarrel
with
a
Sloane
?
Was
it
possible
anything
Charlie
Sloane
could
say
had
power
to
make
her
angry
?
Oh
,
this
was
degradation
,
indeed
--
worse
even
than
being
the
rival
of
Nettie
Blewett
!
"
I
wish
I
need
never
see
the
horrible
creature
again
,
"
she
sobbed
vindictively
into
her
pillows
.
She
could
not
avoid
seeing
him
again
,
but
the
outraged
Charlie
took
care
that
it
should
not
be
at
very
close
quarters
.
Miss
Ada
's
cushions
were
henceforth
safe
from
his
depredations
,
and
when
he
met
Anne
on
the
street
,
or
in
Redmond
's
halls
,
his
bow
was
icy
in
the
extreme
.
Relations
between
these
two
old
schoolmates
continued
to
be
thus
strained
for
nearly
a
year
!
Then
Charlie
transferred
his
blighted
affections
to
a
round
,
rosy
,
snub-nosed
,
blue-eyed
,
little
Sophomore
who
appreciated
them
as
they
deserved
,
whereupon
he
forgave
Anne
and
condescended
to
be
civil
to
her
again
;
in
a
patronizing
manner
intended
to
show
her
just
what
she
had
lost
.
One
day
Anne
scurried
excitedly
into
Priscilla
's
room
.
