It would have been ever so much sweeter to her if he had felt the sting of his defeat . Mr. Phillips might not be a very good teacher ; but a pupil so inflexibly determined on learning as Anne was could hardly escape making progress under any kind of teacher . By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of `` the branches '' -- by which Latin , geometry , French , and algebra were meant . In geometry Anne met her Waterloo . `` It 's perfectly awful stuff , Marilla , '' she groaned . `` I 'm sure I 'll never be able to make head or tail of it . There is no scope for imagination in it at all . Mr. Phillips says I 'm the worst dunce he ever saw at it . And Gil -- I mean some of the others are so smart at it . It is extremely mortifying , Marilla . `` Even Diana gets along better than I do . But I do n't mind being beaten by Diana . Even although we meet as strangers now I still love her with an INEXTINGUISHABLE love . It makes me very sad at times to think about her . But really , Marilla , one ca n't stay sad very long in such an interesting world , can one ? '' CHAPTER XVIII . Anne to the Rescue ALL things great are wound up with all things little . At first glance it might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian Premier to include Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or anything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables . But it had . It was a January the Premier came , to address his loyal supporters and such of his nonsupporters as chose to be present at the monster mass meeting held in Charlottetown .
Most XXXXX the Avonlea people were on Premier 's side of politics ; hence on the night of the meeting nearly all the men and a goodly proportion of the women had gone to town thirty miles away .
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