I sit with Diana . Our seat is right by the window and we can look down to the Lake of Shining Waters . There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinnertime . It 's so nice to have a lot of little girls to play with . But of course I like Diana best and always will . I ADORE Diana . I 'm dreadfully far behind the others . They 're all in the fifth book and I 'm only in the fourth . I feel that it 's kind of a disgrace . But there 's not one of them has such an imagination as I have and I soon found that out . We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today . Mr. Phillips said my spelling was disgraceful and he held up my slate so that everybody could see it , all marked over . I felt so mortified , Marilla ; he might have been politer to a stranger , I think . Ruby Gillis gave me an apple and Sophia Sloane lent me a lovely pink card with ` May I see you home ? ' on it . I 'm to give it back to her tomorrow . And Tillie Boulter let me wear her bead ring all the afternoon . Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to make myself a ring ? And oh , Marilla , Jane Andrews told me that Minnie MacPherson told her that she heard Prissy Andrews tell Sara Gillis that I had a very pretty nose . Marilla , that is the first compliment I have ever had in my life and you ca n't imagine what a strange feeling it gave me .
XXXXX , have I really a pretty nose ?
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