`` Oh , I was so nervous , Diana . When Mr. Allan called out my name I really can not tell how I ever got up on that platform . I felt as if a million eyes were looking at me and through me , and for one dreadful moment I was sure I could n't begin at all . Then I thought of my lovely puffed sleeves and took courage . I knew that I must live up to those sleeves , Diana . So I started in , and my voice seemed to be coming from ever so far away . I just felt like a parrot . It 's providential that I practised those recitations so often up in the garret , or I 'd never have been able to get through . Did I groan all right ? '' `` Yes , indeed , you groaned lovely , '' assured Diana . `` I saw old Mrs. Sloane wiping away tears when I sat down . It was splendid to think I had touched somebody 's heart . It 's so romantic to take part in a concert is n't it ? Oh , it 's been a very memorable occasion indeed . '' `` Was n't the boys ' dialogue fine ? '' said Diana . `` Gilbert Blythe was just splendid . Anne , I do think it 's awful mean the way you treat Gil . Wait till I tell you . When you ran off the platform after the fairy dialogue one of your roses fell out of your hair .
I saw Gil pick it up and put it XXXXX his breast pocket .
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