For the time being life was savorless , and ambition had gone out like a snuffed candle . `` You surely do n't care for what they said , '' protested Gilbert . `` You know exactly how narrow their outlook on life is , excellent creatures though they are . To do anything THEY have never done is anathema maranatha . You are the first Avonlea girl who has ever gone to college ; and you know that all pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness . '' `` Oh , I know . But FEELING is so different from KNOWING . My common sense tells me all you can say , but there are times when common sense has no power over me . Common nonsense takes possession of my soul . Really , after Mrs. Elisha went away I hardly had the heart to finish packing . '' `` You 're just tired , Anne . Come , forget it all and take a walk with me -- a ramble back through the woods beyond the marsh . There should be something there I want to show you . '' `` Should be ! Do n't you know if it is there ? '' `` No . I only know it should be , from something I saw there in spring . Come on . We 'll pretend we are two children again and we 'll go the way of the wind . '' They started gaily off .
Anne , remembering the unpleasantness XXXXX the preceding evening , was very nice to Gilbert ; and Gilbert , who was learning wisdom , took care to be nothing save the schoolboy comrade again .
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