`` Ask me that a month later and I may be able to tell you . I ca n't now ... I do n't know myself ... I 'm too near it . My thoughts feel as if they had been all stirred up until they were thick and muddy . The only thing I feel really sure of having accomplished today is that I taught Cliffie Wright that A is A . He never knew it before . Is n't it something to have started a soul along a path that may end in Shakespeare and Paradise Lost ? '' Mrs. Lynde came up later on with more encouragement . That good lady had waylaid the schoolchildren at her gate and demanded of them how they liked their new teacher . `` And every one of them said they liked you splendid , Anne , except Anthony Pye . I must admit he did n't . He said you ` were n't any good , just like all girl teachers . ' There 's the Pye leaven for you . But never mind . '' `` I 'm not going to mind , '' said Anne quietly , `` and I 'm going to make Anthony Pye like me yet . Patience and kindness will surely win him . '' `` Well , you can never tell about a Pye , '' said Mrs. Rachel cautiously . `` They go by contraries , like dreams , often as not . As for that DonNELL woman , she 'll get no DonNELLing from me , I can assure you . The name is DONnell and always has been . The woman is crazy , that 's what .
She has a pug dog she calls Queenie and it has its meals XXXXX the table along with the family , eating off a china plate .
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