Chapter XV A Dream Turned Upside Down `` Just one more week and we go back to Redmond , '' said Anne . She was happy at the thought of returning to work , classes and Redmond friends . Pleasing visions were also being woven around Patty 's Place . There was a warm pleasant sense of home in the thought of it , even though she had never lived there . But the summer had been a very happy one , too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies , a time of keen delight in wholesome things ; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships ; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly , to work more patiently , to play more heartily . `` All life lessons are not learned at college , '' she thought . `` Life teaches them everywhere . '' But alas , the final week of that pleasant vacation was spoiled for Anne , by one of those impish happenings which are like a dream turned upside down . `` Been writing any more stories lately ? '' inquired Mr. Harrison genially one evening when Anne was taking tea with him and Mrs. Harrison . `` No , '' answered Anne , rather crisply . `` Well , no offense meant . Mrs. Hiram Sloane told me the other day that a big envelope addressed to the Rollings Reliable Baking Powder Company of Montreal had been dropped into the post office box a month ago , and she suspicioned that somebody was trying for the prize they 'd offered for the best story that introduced the name of their baking powder . She said it was n't addressed in your writing , but I thought maybe it was you . '' `` Indeed , no ! I saw the prize offer , but I 'd never dream of competing for it . I think it would be perfectly disgraceful to write a story to advertise a baking powder . It would be almost as bad as Judson Parker 's patent medicine fence . '' So spake Anne loftily , little dreaming of the valley of humiliation awaiting her . That very evening Diana popped into the porch gable , bright-eyed and rosy cheeked , carrying a letter .
`` Oh , Anne , here 's a letter XXXXX you .
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