The latter was , as she admitted , growing old , but her black eyes were not dim nor the vigor of her tongue in the least abated . But she never sharpened the latter on Anne , who continued to be a prime favorite with the critical old lady . `` That Anne-girl improves all the time , '' she said . `` I get tired of other girls -- there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them . Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts . I do n't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child , but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them . It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them . '' Then , almost before anybody realized it , spring had come ; out in Avonlea the Mayflowers were peeping pinkly out on the sere barrens where snow-wreaths lingered ; and the `` mist of green '' was on the woods and in the valleys . But in Charlottetown harassed Queen 's students thought and talked only of examinations . `` It does n't seem possible that the term is nearly over , '' said Anne . `` Why , last fall it seemed so long to look forward to -- a whole winter of studies and classes . And here we are , with the exams looming up next week . Girls , sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything , but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they do n't seem half so important . '' Jane and Ruby and Josie , who had dropped in , did not take this view of it . To them the coming examinations were constantly very important indeed -- far more important than chestnut buds or Maytime hazes . It was all very well for Anne , who was sure of passing at least , to have her moments of belittling them , but when your whole future depended on them -- as the girls truly thought theirs did -- you could not regard them philosophically . `` I 've lost seven pounds in the last two weeks , '' sighed Jane . `` It 's no use to say do n't worry . I WILL worry . Worrying helps you some -- it seems as if you were doing something when you 're worrying .
It would be dreadful if I failed XXXXX get my license after going to Queen 's all winter and spending so much money . '' ''
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