She will say , ` Just like a man , ' and rage furiously . No matter . This is no affair for Miss Cornelia to settle . Leslie alone must decide it . '' `` You know very well how she will decide it , '' said Anne , almost in tears . `` She has ideals of duty , too . I do n't see how you can take such a responsibility on your shoulders . I could n't . '' '' ` Because right is right to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence , ' '' quoted Gilbert . `` Oh , you think a couplet of poetry a convincing argument ! '' scoffed Anne . `` That is so like a man . '' And then she laughed in spite of herself . It sounded so like an echo of Miss Cornelia . `` Well , if you wo n't accept Tennyson as an authority , perhaps you will believe the words of a Greater than he , '' said Gilbert seriously . '' ` Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free . ' I believe that , Anne , with all my heart . It 's the greatest and grandest verse in the Bible -- or in any literature -- and the TRUEST , if there are comparative degrees of trueness . And it 's the first duty of a man to tell the truth , as he sees it and believes it . '' `` In this case the truth wo n't make poor Leslie free , '' sighed Anne .
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