Too well I know the reason . I owe you a grudge , Queen Anne . I really ought to hate you and instead I love you madly , and I 'm miserable if I do n't see you every day . You 're different from any girl I ever knew before . When you look at me in a certain way I feel what an insignificant , frivolous little beast I am , and I long to be better and wiser and stronger . And then I make good resolutions ; but the first nice-looking mannie who comes my way knocks them all out of my head . Is n't college life magnificent ? It 's so funny to think I hated it that first day . But if I had n't I might never got really acquainted with you . Anne , please tell me over again that you like me a little bit . I yearn to hear it . '' `` I like you a big bit -- and I think you 're a dear , sweet , adorable , velvety , clawless , little -- kitten , '' laughed Anne , `` but I do n't see when you ever get time to learn your lessons . '' Phil must have found time for she held her own in every class of her year . Even the grumpy old professor of Mathematics , who detested coeds , and had bitterly opposed their admission to Redmond , could n't floor her . She led the freshettes everywhere , except in English , where Anne Shirley left her far behind . Anne herself found the studies of her Freshman year very easy , thanks in great part to the steady work she and Gilbert had put in during those two past years in Avonlea . This left her more time for a social life which she thoroughly enjoyed . But never for a moment did she forget Avonlea and the friends there . To her , the happiest moments in each week were those in which letters came from home . It was not until she had got her first letters that she began to think she could ever like Kingsport or feel at home there .
Before they came , Avonlea had seemed thousands of miles away ; those letters brought it near and linked the old life to the new so closely that they began XXXXX seem one and the same , instead of two hopelessly segregated existences .
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