`` Well now , I guess our Anne did as well as any of them , '' said Matthew proudly . `` Yes , she did , '' admitted Marilla . `` She 's a bright child , Matthew . And she looked real nice too . I 've been kind of opposed to this concert scheme , but I suppose there 's no real harm in it after all . Anyhow , I was proud of Anne tonight , although I 'm not going to tell her so . '' `` Well now , I was proud of her and I did tell her so ` fore she went upstairs , '' said Matthew . `` We must see what we can do for her some of these days , Marilla . I guess she 'll need something more than Avonlea school by and by . '' `` There 's time enough to think of that , '' said Marilla . `` She 's only thirteen in March . Though tonight it struck me she was growing quite a big girl . Mrs. Lynde made that dress a mite too long , and it makes Anne look so tall . She 's quick to learn and I guess the best thing we can do for her will be to send her to Queen 's after a spell . But nothing need be said about that for a year or two yet . '' `` Well now , it 'll do no harm to be thinking it over off and on , '' said Matthew . `` Things like that are all the better for lots of thinking over . '' CHAPTER XXVI . The Story Club Is Formed Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again . To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat , stale , and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks .
Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures XXXXX those faraway days before the concert ?
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