`` I think you are the sweetest and truest friend in the world , Diana , '' she said , with a little tremble in her voice , `` and I assure you I appreciate the motive of what you 've done . '' Diana , pleased and embarrassed , got herself away , and poor Anne , after flinging the innocent check into her bureau drawer as if it were blood-money , cast herself on her bed and wept tears of shame and outraged sensibility . Oh , she could never live this down -- never ! Gilbert arrived at dusk , brimming over with congratulations , for he had called at Orchard Slope and heard the news . But his congratulations died on his lips at sight of Anne 's face . `` Why , Anne , what is the matter ? I expected to find you radiant over winning Rollings Reliable prize . Good for you ! '' `` Oh , Gilbert , not you , '' implored Anne , in an ET-TU BRUTE tone . `` I thought YOU would understand . Ca n't you see how awful it is ? '' `` I must confess I ca n't . WHAT is wrong ? '' `` Everything , '' moaned Anne . `` I feel as if I were disgraced forever . What do you think a mother would feel like if she found her child tattooed over with a baking powder advertisement ? I feel just the same . I loved my poor little story , and I wrote it out of the best that was in me . And it is SACRILEGE to have it degraded to the level of a baking powder advertisement . Do n't you remember what Professor Hamilton used to tell us in the literature class at Queen 's ?
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