Lauretta says that the Americans at the hotel give a concert every fortnight in aid of the Charlottetown hospital , and they ask lots of the White Sands people to recite . Lauretta said she expected to be asked herself someday . I just gazed at her in awe . After she had gone Mrs. Allan and I had a heart-to-heart talk . I told her everything -- about Mrs. Thomas and the twins and Katie Maurice and Violetta and coming to Green Gables and my troubles over geometry . And would you believe it , Marilla ? Mrs. Allan told me she was a dunce at geometry too . You do n't know how that encouraged me . Mrs. Lynde came to the manse just before I left , and what do you think , Marilla ? The trustees have hired a new teacher and it 's a lady . Her name is Miss Muriel Stacy . Is n't that a romantic name ? Mrs. Lynde says they 've never had a female teacher in Avonlea before and she thinks it is a dangerous innovation . But I think it will be splendid to have a lady teacher , and I really do n't see how I 'm going to live through the two weeks before school begins . I 'm so impatient to see her . '' CHAPTER XXIII . Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor Anne had to live through more than two weeks , as it happened . Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode , it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort , little mistakes , such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs ' bucket , and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie , not really being worth counting . A week after the tea at the manse Diana Barry gave a party . `` Small and select , '' Anne assured Marilla .
`` Just the girls XXXXX our class . ''
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