This meant getting a First Class teacher 's license in one year instead of two , if they were successful ; but it also meant much more and harder work . Jane , Ruby , Josie , Charlie , and Moody Spurgeon , not being troubled with the stirrings of ambition , were content to take up the Second Class work . Anne was conscious of a pang of loneliness when she found herself in a room with fifty other students , not one of whom she knew , except the tall , brown-haired boy across the room ; and knowing him in the fashion she did , did not help her much , as she reflected pessimistically . Yet she was undeniably glad that they were in the same class ; the old rivalry could still be carried on , and Anne would hardly have known what to do if it had been lacking . `` I would n't feel comfortable without it , '' she thought . `` Gilbert looks awfully determined . I suppose he 's making up his mind , here and now , to win the medal . What a splendid chin he has ! I never noticed it before . I do wish Jane and Ruby had gone in for First Class , too . I suppose I wo n't feel so much like a cat in a strange garret when I get acquainted , though . I wonder which of the girls here are going to be my friends . It 's really an interesting speculation . Of course I promised Diana that no Queen 's girl , no matter how much I liked her , should ever be as dear to me as she is ; but I 've lots of second-best affections to bestow . I like the look of that girl with the brown eyes and the crimson waist . She looks vivid and red-rosy ; there 's that pale , fair one gazing out of the window . She has lovely hair , and looks as if she knew a thing or two about dreams . I 'd like to know them both -- know them well -- well enough to walk with my arm about their waists , and call them nicknames . But just now I do n't know them and they do n't know me , and probably do n't want to know me particularly . Oh , it 's lonesome ! ''
It was lonesomer still when Anne found herself alone XXXXX her hall bedroom that night at twilight .
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