`` There 's the carriage . I fly -- Bi-bi , you two old-fashioned darlings . '' When Phil had gone Aunt Jamesina looked solemnly at Anne . `` That girl is pretty and sweet and goodhearted , but do you think she is quite right in her mind , by spells , Anne ? '' `` Oh , I do n't think there 's anything the matter with Phil 's mind , '' said Anne , hiding a smile . `` It 's just her way of talking . '' Aunt Jamesina shook her head . `` Well , I hope so , Anne . I do hope so , because I love her . But I ca n't understand her -- she beats me . She is n't like any of the girls I ever knew , or any of the girls I was myself . '' `` How many girls were you , Aunt Jimsie ? '' `` About half a dozen , my dear . '' Chapter XX Gilbert Speaks `` This has been a dull , prosy day , '' yawned Phil , stretching herself idly on the sofa , having previously dispossessed two exceedingly indignant cats . Anne looked up from Pickwick Papers . Now that spring examinations were over she was treating herself to Dickens . `` It has been a prosy day for us , '' she said thoughtfully , `` but to some people it has been a wonderful day . Some one has been rapturously happy in it . Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today -- or a great poem written -- or a great man born . And some heart has been broken , Phil . ''
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