With the exception of these trifling frictions , work in Miss Stacy 's little kingdom went on with regularity and smoothness . The winter weeks slipped by . It was an unusually mild winter , with so little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by way of the Birch Path . On Anne 's birthday they were tripping lightly down it , keeping eyes and ears alert amid all their chatter , for Miss Stacy had told them that they must soon write a composition on `` A Winter 's Walk in the Woods , '' and it behooved them to be observant . `` Just think , Diana , I 'm thirteen years old today , '' remarked Anne in an awed voice . `` I can scarcely realize that I 'm in my teens . When I woke this morning it seemed to me that everything must be different . You 've been thirteen for a month , so I suppose it does n't seem such a novelty to you as it does to me . It makes life seem so much more interesting . In two more years I 'll be really grown up . It 's a great comfort to think that I 'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at . '' `` Ruby Gillis says she means to have a beau as soon as she 's fifteen , '' said Diana . `` Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but beaus , '' said Anne disdainfully . `` She 's actually delighted when anyone writes her name up in a take-notice for all she pretends to be so mad . But I 'm afraid that is an uncharitable speech . Mrs. Allan says we should never make uncharitable speeches ; but they do slip out so often before you think , do n't they ? I simply ca n't talk about Josie Pye without making an uncharitable speech , so I never mention her at all . You may have noticed that . I 'm trying to be as much like Mrs. Allan as I possibly can , for I think she 's perfect . Mr. Allan thinks so too .
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