Well , that sort of folks are comfortable to have round , even if they 're not as interesting as the other kind . '' Gilbert Blythe was probably the only person to whom the news of Anne 's resignation brought unmixed pleasure . Her pupils looked upon it as a sheer catastrophe . Annetta Bell had hysterics when she went home . Anthony Pye fought two pitched and unprovoked battles with other boys by way of relieving his feelings . Barbara Shaw cried all night . Paul Irving defiantly told his grandmother that she need n't expect him to eat any porridge for a week . `` I ca n't do it , Grandma , '' he said . `` I do n't really know if I can eat ANYTHING . I feel as if there was a dreadful lump in my throat . I 'd have cried coming home from school if Jake Donnell had n't been watching me . I believe I will cry after I go to bed . It would n't show on my eyes tomorrow , would it ? And it would be such a relief . But anyway , I ca n't eat porridge . I 'm going to need all my strength of mind to bear up against this , Grandma , and I wo n't have any left to grapple with porridge . Oh Grandma , I do n't know what I 'll do when my beautiful teacher goes away . Milty Boulter says he bets Jane Andrews will get the school . I suppose Miss Andrews is very nice . But I know she wo n't understand things like Miss Shirley . ''
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