Poor Miss Ada asked me today , still smiling , but oh , so reproachfully , why I had allowed it to be sat upon . I told her I had n't -- that it was a matter of predestination coupled with inveterate Sloanishness and I was n't a match for both combined . '' `` Miss Ada 's cushions are really getting on my nerves , '' said Anne . `` She finished two new ones last week , stuffed and embroidered within an inch of their lives . There being absolutely no other cushionless place to put them she stood them up against the wall on the stair landing . They topple over half the time and if we come up or down the stairs in the dark we fall over them . Last Sunday , when Dr. Davis prayed for all those exposed to the perils of the sea , I added in thought ` and for all those who live in houses where cushions are loved not wisely but too well ! ' There ! we 're ready , and I see the boys coming through Old St. John 's . Do you cast in your lot with us , Phil ? '' `` I 'll go , if I can walk with Priscilla and Charlie . That will be a bearable degree of gooseberry . That Gilbert of yours is a darling , Anne , but why does he go around so much with Goggle-eyes ? '' Anne stiffened . She had no great liking for Charlie Sloane ; but he was of Avonlea , so no outsider had any business to laugh at him . `` Charlie and Gilbert have always been friends , '' she said coldly . `` Charlie is a nice boy . He 's not to blame for his eyes . '' `` Do n't tell me that ! He is !
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