`` Anne Shirley , you 'll kill yourself . '' `` Not a bit of it . I shall thrive on it . Oh , I 'm not going to overdo things . As ` Josiah Allen 's wife , ' says , I shall be ` mejum ' . But I 'll have lots of spare time in the long winter evenings , and I 've no vocation for fancy work . I 'm going to teach over at Carmody , you know . '' `` I do n't know it . I guess you 're going to teach right here in Avonlea . The trustees have decided to give you the school . '' `` Mrs. Lynde ! '' cried Anne , springing to her feet in her surprise . `` Why , I thought they had promised it to Gilbert Blythe ! '' `` So they did . But as soon as Gilbert heard that you had applied for it he went to them -- they had a business meeting at the school last night , you know -- and told them that he withdrew his application , and suggested that they accept yours . He said he was going to teach at White Sands . Of course he knew how much you wanted to stay with Marilla , and I must say I think it was real kind and thoughtful in him , that 's what . Real self-sacrificing , too , for he 'll have his board to pay at White Sands , and everybody knows he 's got to earn his own way through college . So the trustees decided to take you . I was tickled to death when Thomas came home and told me . ''
`` I do n't feel that I ought XXXXX take it , '' murmured Anne .
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