There being absolutely no other cushionless place to put them she stood them up against the wall on the stair landing . They topple over half the time and if we come up or down the stairs in the dark we fall over them . Last Sunday , when Dr. Davis prayed for all those exposed to the perils of the sea , I added in thought ` and for all those who live in houses where cushions are loved not wisely but too well ! ' There ! we 're ready , and I see the boys coming through Old St. John 's . Do you cast in your lot with us , Phil ? '' `` I 'll go , if I can walk with Priscilla and Charlie . That will be a bearable degree of gooseberry . That Gilbert of yours is a darling , Anne , but why does he go around so much with Goggle-eyes ? '' Anne stiffened . She had no great liking for Charlie Sloane ; but he was of Avonlea , so no outsider had any business to laugh at him . `` Charlie and Gilbert have always been friends , '' she said coldly . `` Charlie is a nice boy . He 's not to blame for his eyes . '' `` Do n't tell me that ! He is ! He must have done something dreadful in a previous existence to be punished with such eyes . Pris and I are going to have such sport with him this afternoon . We 'll make fun of him to his face and he 'll never know it . '' Doubtless , `` the abandoned P 's , '' as Anne called them , did carry out their amiable intentions .
But Sloane was blissfully ignorant ; he thought he was quite a fine fellow to be walking XXXXX two such coeds , especially Philippa Gordon , the class beauty and belle .
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