I would like to know I had the POWER to do it . '' `` I do n't understand you , Phil . You are leading that man on deliberately -- and you know you do n't mean anything by it . '' `` I mean to make him ask me to marry him if I can , '' said Phil calmly . `` I give you up , '' said Stella hopelessly . Gilbert came occasionally on Friday evenings . He seemed always in good spirits , and held his own in the jests and repartee that flew about . He neither sought nor avoided Anne . When circumstances brought them in contact he talked to her pleasantly and courteously , as to any newly-made acquaintance . The old camaraderie was gone entirely . Anne felt it keenly ; but she told herself she was very glad and thankful that Gilbert had got so completely over his disappointment in regard to her . She had really been afraid , that April evening in the orchard , that she had hurt him terribly and that the wound would be long in healing . Now she saw that she need not have worried . Men have died and the worms have eaten them but not for love . Gilbert evidently was in no danger of immediate dissolution . He was enjoying life , and he was full of ambition and zest . For him there was to be no wasting in despair because a woman was fair and cold . Anne , as she listened to the ceaseless badinage that went on between him and Phil , wondered if she had only imagined that look in his eyes when she had told him she could never care for him . There were not lacking those who would gladly have stepped into Gilbert 's vacant place . But Anne snubbed them without fear and without reproach .
If the real Prince Charming was never to come she would have none XXXXX a substitute .
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