`` When we were assigned to our rooms Miss Stacy had to leave us . Jane and I sat together and Jane was so composed that I envied her . No need of the multiplication table for good , steady , sensible Jane ! I wondered if I looked as I felt and if they could hear my heart thumping clear across the room . Then a man came in and began distributing the English examination sheets . My hands grew cold then and my head fairly whirled around as I picked it up . Just one awful moment -- Diana , I felt exactly as I did four years ago when I asked Marilla if I might stay at Green Gables -- and then everything cleared up in my mind and my heart began beating again -- I forgot to say that it had stopped altogether ! -- for I knew I could do something with THAT paper anyhow . `` At noon we went home for dinner and then back again for history in the afternoon . The history was a pretty hard paper and I got dreadfully mixed up in the dates . Still , I think I did fairly well today . But oh , Diana , tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid . If I thought the multiplication table would help me any I would recite it from now till tomorrow morning . `` I went down to see the other girls this evening . On my way I met Moody Spurgeon wandering distractedly around . He said he knew he had failed in history and he was born to be a disappointment to his parents and he was going home on the morning train ; and it would be easier to be a carpenter than a minister , anyhow . I cheered him up and persuaded him to stay to the end because it would be unfair to Miss Stacy if he did n't . Sometimes I have wished I was born a boy , but when I see Moody Spurgeon I 'm always glad I 'm a girl and not his sister . `` Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boardinghouse ; she had just discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper . When she recovered we went uptown and had an ice cream .
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