`` I do n't exactly WANT to , Davy , but I feel I ought to go . '' `` If you do n't want to go you need n't . You 're grown up . When I 'm grown up I 'm not going to do one single thing I do n't want to do , Anne . '' `` All your life , Davy , you 'll find yourself doing things you do n't want to do . '' `` I wo n't , '' said Davy flatly . `` Catch me ! I have to do things I do n't want to now 'cause you and Marilla 'll send me to bed if I do n't . But when I grow up you ca n't do that , and there 'll be nobody to tell me not to do things . Wo n't I have the time ! Say , Anne , Milty Boulter says his mother says you 're going to college to see if you can catch a man . Are you , Anne ? I want to know . '' For a second Anne burned with resentment . Then she laughed , reminding herself that Mrs. Boulter 's crude vulgarity of thought and speech could not harm her . `` No , Davy , I 'm not . I 'm going to study and grow and learn about many things . '' `` What things ? '' '' ` Shoes and ships and sealing wax And cabbages and kings , ' '' quoted Anne . `` But if you DID want to catch a man how would you go about it ?
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