she said , as they left the graveyard . Anne nodded . `` Yes ... I could roll the word as a sweet morsel under my tongue . I think the summer is going to be lovely . For one thing , Mrs. Morgan is coming to the Island in July and Priscilla is going to bring her up . I feel one of my old ` thrills ' at the mere thought . '' `` I hope you 'll have a good time , Anne . You 've worked very hard this past year and you have succeeded . '' `` Oh , I do n't know . I 've come so far short in so many things . I have n't done what I meant to do when I began to teach last fall . I have n't lived up to my ideals . '' `` None of us ever do , '' said Mrs. Allan with a sigh . `` But then , Anne , you know what Lowell says , ` Not failure but low aim is crime . ' We must have ideals and try to live up to them , even if we never quite succeed . Life would be a sorry business without them . With them it 's grand and great . Hold fast to your ideals , Anne . '' `` I shall try . But I have to let go most of my theories , '' said Anne , laughing a little .
`` I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am , but every one XXXXX them has failed me at some pinch or another . ''
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