I 've no intention of being homesick , I can tell you . Town 's too jolly after that poky old Avonlea . I wonder how I ever existed there so long . You should n't cry , Anne ; it is n't becoming , for your nose and eyes get red , and then you seem ALL red . I 'd a perfectly scrumptious time in the Academy today . Our French professor is simply a duck . His moustache would give you kerwollowps of the heart . Have you anything eatable around , Anne ? I 'm literally starving . Ah , I guessed likely Marilla 'd load you up with cake . That 's why I called round . Otherwise I 'd have gone to the park to hear the band play with Frank Stockley . He boards same place as I do , and he 's a sport . He noticed you in class today , and asked me who the red-headed girl was . I told him you were an orphan that the Cuthberts had adopted , and nobody knew very much about what you 'd been before that . '' Anne was wondering if , after all , solitude and tears were not more satisfactory than Josie Pye 's companionship when Jane and Ruby appeared , each with an inch of Queen 's color ribbon -- purple and scarlet -- pinned proudly to her coat . As Josie was not `` speaking '' to Jane just then she had to subside into comparative harmlessness . `` Well , '' said Jane with a sigh , `` I feel as if I 'd lived many moons since the morning . I ought to be home studying my Virgil -- that horrid old professor gave us twenty lines to start in on tomorrow . But I simply could n't settle down to study tonight .
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