`` I could n't really feel proud of keeping head of little boys and girls of just nine or ten . I got up yesterday spelling ` ebullition . ' Josie Pye was head and , mind you , she peeped in her book . Mr. Phillips did n't see her -- he was looking at Prissy Andrews -- but I did . I just swept her a look of freezing scorn and she got as red as a beet and spelled it wrong after all . '' `` Those Pye girls are cheats all round , '' said Diana indignantly , as they climbed the fence of the main road . `` Gertie Pye actually went and put her milk bottle in my place in the brook yesterday . Did you ever ? I do n't speak to her now . '' When Mr. Phillips was in the back of the room hearing Prissy Andrews 's Latin , Diana whispered to Anne , `` That 's Gilbert Blythe sitting right across the aisle from you , Anne . Just look at him and see if you do n't think he 's handsome . '' Anne looked accordingly . She had a good chance to do so , for the said Gilbert Blythe was absorbed in stealthily pinning the long yellow braid of Ruby Gillis , who sat in front of him , to the back of her seat . He was a tall boy , with curly brown hair , roguish hazel eyes , and a mouth twisted into a teasing smile . Presently Ruby Gillis started up to take a sum to the master ; she fell back into her seat with a little shriek , believing that her hair was pulled out by the roots . Everybody looked at her and Mr. Phillips glared so sternly that Ruby began to cry . Gilbert had whisked the pin out of sight and was studying his history with the soberest face in the world ; but when the commotion subsided he looked at Anne and winked with inexpressible drollery . `` I think your Gilbert Blythe IS handsome , '' confided Anne to Diana , `` but I think he 's very bold . It is n't good manners to wink at a strange girl . '' But it was not until the afternoon that things really began to happen .
Mr. XXXXX was back in the corner explaining a problem in algebra to Prissy Andrews and the rest of the scholars were doing pretty much as they pleased eating green apples , whispering , drawing pictures on their slates , and driving crickets harnessed to strings , up and down aisle .
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