At that moment she wished Phil were a thousand miles away . `` I suppose you 've gone and refused Gilbert Blythe . You are an idiot , Anne Shirley ! '' `` Do you call it idiotic to refuse to marry a man I do n't love ? '' said Anne coldly , goaded to reply . `` You do n't know love when you see it . You 've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love , and you expect the real thing to look like that . There , that 's the first sensible thing I 've ever said in my life . I wonder how I managed it ? '' `` Phil , '' pleaded Anne , `` please go away and leave me alone for a little while . My world has tumbled into pieces . I want to reconstruct it . '' `` Without any Gilbert in it ? '' said Phil , going . A world without any Gilbert in it ! Anne repeated the words drearily . Would it not be a very lonely , forlorn place ? Well , it was all Gilbert 's fault . He had spoiled their beautiful comradeship . She must just learn to live without it .
Chapter XXI Roses of Yesterday The fortnight Anne spent XXXXX Bolingbroke was a very pleasant one , with a little under current of vague pain and dissatisfaction running through it whenever she thought about Gilbert .
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