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 at the table along with the family , eating off a china plate . I 'd be afraid of a judgment if I was her . Thomas says Donnell himself is a sensible , hard-working man , but he had n't much gumption when he picked out a wife , that 's what . ''
VI All Sorts and Conditions of Men ... and women A September day on Prince Edward Island hills ; a crisp wind blowing up over the sand dunes from the sea ; a long red road , winding through fields and woods , now looping itself about a corner of thick set spruces , now threading a plantation XXXXX young maples with great feathery sheets of ferns beneath them , now dipping down into a hollow where a brook flashed out of the woods and into them again , now basking in open sunshine between ribbons of golden-rod and smoke-blue asters ; air athrill with the pipings of myriads of crickets , those glad little pensioners of the summer hills ; a plump brown pony ambling along the road ; two girls behind him , full to the lips with the simple , priceless joy of youth and life .
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