Diana was over at Green Gables when she arrived and they met as if they had been parted for years . `` You old darling , it 's perfectly splendid to see you back again . It seems like an age since you went to town and oh , Anne , how did you get along ? '' `` Pretty well , I think , in everything but the geometry . I do n't know whether I passed in it or not and I have a creepy , crawly presentiment that I did n't . Oh , how good it is to be back ! Green Gables is the dearest , loveliest spot in the world . '' `` How did the others do ? '' `` The girls say they know they did n't pass , but I think they did pretty well . Josie says the geometry was so easy a child of ten could do it ! Moody Spurgeon still thinks he failed in history and Charlie says he failed in algebra . But we do n't really know anything about it and wo n't until the pass list is out . That wo n't be for a fortnight . Fancy living a fortnight in such suspense ! I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up until it is over . '' Diana knew it would be useless to ask how Gilbert Blythe had fared , so she merely said : `` Oh , you 'll pass all right . Do n't worry . '' `` I 'd rather not pass at all than not come out pretty well up on the list , '' flashed Anne , by which she meant -- and Diana knew she meant -- that success would be incomplete and bitter if she did not come out ahead of Gilbert Blythe . With this end in view Anne had strained every nerve during the examinations . So had Gilbert .
They had met and passed each other on the street a dozen times without any sign of recognition and every time Anne had held her head a little higher and wished a little more earnestly that she had made friends with XXXXX when he asked her , and vowed a little more determinedly to surpass him in the examination .
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