Mrs. Lynde made that dress a mite too long , and it makes Anne look so tall . She 's quick to learn and I guess the best thing we can do for her will be to send her to Queen 's after a spell . But nothing need be said about that for a year or two yet . '' `` Well now , it 'll do no harm to be thinking it over off and on , '' said Matthew . `` Things like that are all the better for lots of thinking over . '' CHAPTER XXVI . The Story Club Is Formed Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again . To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat , stale , and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks . Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before the concert ? At first , as she told Diana , she did not really think she could . `` I 'm positively certain , Diana , that life can never be quite the same again as it was in those olden days , '' she said mournfully , as if referring to a period of at least fifty years back . `` Perhaps after a while I 'll get used to it , but I 'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life . I suppose that is why Marilla disapproves of them . Marilla is such a sensible woman . It must be a great deal better to be sensible ; but still , I do n't believe I 'd really want to be a sensible person , because they are so unromantic . Mrs. Lynde says there is no danger of my ever being one , but you can never tell . I feel just now that I may grow up to be sensible yet . But perhaps that is only because I 'm tired . I simply could n't sleep last night for ever so long . I just lay awake and imagined the concert over and over again .
That 's one splendid thing about such affairs -- it 's so lovely XXXXX look back to them . ''
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