Miss Stacy sometimes has us write a story for training in composition , but she wo n't let us write anything but what might happen in Avonlea in our own lives , and she criticizes it very sharply and makes us criticize our own too . I never thought my compositions had so many faults until I began to look for them myself . I felt so ashamed I wanted to give up altogether , but Miss Stacy said I could learn to write well if I only trained myself to be my own severest critic . And so I am trying to . '' `` You 've only two more months before the Entrance , '' said Marilla . `` Do you think you 'll be able to get through ? '' Anne shivered . `` I do n't know . Sometimes I think I 'll be all right -- and then I get horribly afraid . We 've studied hard and Miss Stacy has drilled us thoroughly , but we may n't get through for all that . We 've each got a stumbling block . Mine is geometry of course , and Jane 's is Latin , and Ruby and Charlie 's is algebra , and Josie 's is arithmetic . Moody Spurgeon says he feels it in his bones that he is going to fail in English history . Miss Stacy is going to give us examinations in June just as hard as we 'll have at the Entrance and mark us just as strictly , so we 'll have some idea . I wish it was all over , Marilla . It haunts me . Sometimes I wake up in the night and wonder what I 'll do if I do n't pass . '' `` Why , go to school next year and try again , '' said Marilla unconcernedly . `` Oh , I do n't believe I 'd have the heart for it . It would be such a disgrace to fail , especially if Gil -- if the others passed .
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