I re-wrote it and sent it in -- but I never really thought it could be accepted because it had no plot , '' said Anne , recalling the bitter experience of Averil 's Atonement . `` What are you going to do with that ten dollars , Anne ? Let 's all go up town and get drunk , '' suggested Phil . `` I AM going to squander it in a wild soulless revel of some sort , '' declared Anne gaily . `` At all events it is n't tainted money -- like the check I got for that horrible Reliable Baking Powder story . I spent IT usefully for clothes and hated them every time I put them on . '' `` Think of having a real live author at Patty 's Place , '' said Priscilla . `` It 's a great responsibility , '' said Aunt Jamesina solemnly . `` Indeed it is , '' agreed Pris with equal solemnity . `` Authors are kittle cattle . You never know when or how they will break out . Anne may make copy of us . '' `` I meant that the ability to write for the Press was a great responsibility , '' said Aunt Jamesina severely , `` and I hope Anne realizes , it . My daughter used to write stories before she went to the foreign field , but now she has turned her attention to higher things . She used to say her motto was ` Never write a line you would be ashamed to read at your own funeral . ' You 'd better take that for yours , Anne , if you are going to embark in literature . Though , to be sure , '' added Aunt Jamesina perplexedly , `` Elizabeth always used to laugh when she said it . She always laughed so much that I do n't know how she ever came to decide on being a missionary . I 'm thankful she did -- I prayed that she might -- but -- I wish she had n't . '' Then Aunt Jamesina wondered why those giddy girls all laughed .
Anne 's eyes shone all that day ; literary ambitions sprouted and budded in her brain ; their exhilaration accompanied her to Jennie Cooper 's walking party , and not even the sight of Gilbert and Christine , walking just ahead of her and Roy , could quite subdue the sparkle XXXXX her starry hopes .
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