And I 'll study as hard as I can and do my very best to be a credit to you . I warn you not to expect much in geometry , but I think I can hold my own in anything else if I work hard . '' `` I dare say you 'll get along well enough . Miss Stacy says you are bright and diligent . '' Not for worlds would Marilla have told Anne just what Miss Stacy had said about her ; that would have been to pamper vanity . `` You need n't rush to any extreme of killing yourself over your books . There is no hurry . You wo n't be ready to try the Entrance for a year and a half yet . But it 's well to begin in time and be thoroughly grounded , Miss Stacy says . '' `` I shall take more interest than ever in my studies now , '' said Anne blissfully , `` because I have a purpose in life . Mr. Allan says everybody should have a purpose in life and pursue it faithfully . Only he says we must first make sure that it is a worthy purpose . I would call it a worthy purpose to want to be a teacher like Miss Stacy , would n't you , Marilla ? I think it 's a very noble profession . '' The Queen 's class was organized in due time . Gilbert Blythe , Anne Shirley , Ruby Gillis , Jane Andrews , Josie Pye , Charlie Sloane , and Moody Spurgeon MacPherson joined it . Diana Barry did not , as her parents did not intend to send her to Queen 's . This seemed nothing short of a calamity to Anne . Never , since the night on which Minnie May had had the croup , had she and Diana been separated in anything . On the evening when the Queen 's class first remained in school for the extra lessons and Anne saw Diana go slowly out with the others , to walk home alone through the Birch Path and Violet Vale , it was all the former could do to keep her seat and refrain from rushing impulsively after her chum .
A lump came into her throat , and she hastily retired behind the pages of her uplifted Latin grammar XXXXX hide the tears in her eyes .
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