So you can join the Queen 's class if you like , Anne . '' `` Oh , Marilla , thank you . '' Anne flung her arms about Marilla 's waist and looked up earnestly into her face . `` I 'm extremely grateful to you and Matthew . And I 'll study as hard as I can and do my very best to be a credit to you . I warn you not to expect much in geometry , but I think I can hold my own in anything else if I work hard . '' `` I dare say you 'll get along well enough . Miss Stacy says you are bright and diligent . '' Not for worlds would Marilla have told Anne just what Miss Stacy had said about her ; that would have been to pamper vanity . `` You need n't rush to any extreme of killing yourself over your books . There is no hurry . You wo n't be ready to try the Entrance for a year and a half yet . But it 's well to begin in time and be thoroughly grounded , Miss Stacy says . '' `` I shall take more interest than ever in my studies now , '' said Anne blissfully , `` because I have a purpose in life . Mr. Allan says everybody should have a purpose in life and pursue it faithfully . Only he says we must first make sure that it is a worthy purpose . I would call it a worthy purpose to want to be a teacher like Miss Stacy , would n't you , Marilla ? I think it 's a very noble profession . '' The Queen 's class was organized in due time . Gilbert Blythe , Anne Shirley , Ruby Gillis , Jane Andrews , Josie Pye , Charlie Sloane , and Moody Spurgeon MacPherson joined it .
Diana Barry did not , as her parents did not intend XXXXX send her to Queen 's .
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