One day Anne scurried excitedly into Priscilla 's room . `` Read that , '' she cried , tossing Priscilla a letter . `` It 's from Stella -- and she 's coming to Redmond next year -- and what do you think of her idea ? I think it 's a perfectly splendid one , if we can only carry it out . Do you suppose we can , Pris ? '' `` I 'll be better able to tell you when I find out what it is , '' said Priscilla , casting aside a Greek lexicon and taking up Stella 's letter . Stella Maynard had been one of their chums at Queen 's Academy and had been teaching school ever since . `` But I 'm going to give it up , Anne dear , '' she wrote , `` and go to college next year . As I took the third year at Queen 's I can enter the Sophomore year . I 'm tired of teaching in a back country school . Some day I 'm going to write a treatise on ` The Trials of a Country Schoolmarm . ' It will be a harrowing bit of realism . It seems to be the prevailing impression that we live in clover , and have nothing to do but draw our quarter 's salary . My treatise shall tell the truth about us . Why , if a week should pass without some one telling me that I am doing easy work for big pay I would conclude that I might as well order my ascension robe ` immediately and to onct . ' ` Well , you get your money easy , ' some rate-payer will tell me , condescendingly . ` All you have to do is to sit there and hear lessons . ' I used to argue the matter at first , but I 'm wiser now . Facts are stubborn things , but as some one has wisely said , not half so stubborn as fallacies . So I only smile loftily now in eloquent silence .
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