You must stay to tea with me , Diana , and we 'll talk it all over . '' `` Priscilla says Mrs. Pendexter 's husband 's sister is married to an English earl ; and yet she took a second helping of the plum preserves , '' said Diana , as if the two facts were somehow incompatible . `` I daresay even the English earl himself would n't have turned up his aristocratic nose at Marilla 's plum preserves , '' said Anne proudly . Anne did not mention the misfortune which had befallen HER nose when she related the day 's history to Marilla that evening . But she took the bottle of freckle lotion and emptied it out of the window . `` I shall never try any beautifying messes again , '' she said , darkly resolute . `` They may do for careful , deliberate people ; but for anyone so hopelessly given over to making mistakes as I seem to be it 's tempting fate to meddle with them . '' XXI Sweet Miss Lavendar School opened and Anne returned to her work , with fewer theories but considerably more experience . She had several new pupils , six - and seven-year-olds just venturing , round-eyed , into a world of wonder . Among them were Davy and Dora . Davy sat with Milty Boulter , who had been going to school for a year and was therefore quite a man of the world . Dora had made a compact at Sunday School the previous Sunday to sit with Lily Sloane ; but Lily Sloane not coming the first day , she was temporarily assigned to Mirabel Cotton , who was ten years old and therefore , in Dora 's eyes , one of the `` big girls . '' `` I think school is great fun , '' Davy told Marilla when he got home that night . `` You said I 'd find it hard to sit still and I did ... you mostly do tell the truth , I notice ... but you can wriggle your legs about under the desk and that helps a lot . It 's splendid to have so many boys to play with . I sit with Milty Boulter and he 's fine . He 's longer than me but I 'm wider . It 's nicer to sit in the back seats but you ca n't sit there till your legs grow long enough to touch the floor . Milty drawed a picture of Anne on his slate and it was awful ugly and I told him if he made pictures of Anne like that I 'd lick him at recess . I thought first I 'd draw one of him and put horns and a tail on it , but I was afraid it would hurt his feelings , and Anne says you should never hurt anyone 's feelings .
It seems it 's dreadful XXXXX have your feelings hurt .
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