I was so used to crowding in all the fine big words I could think of -- and I thought of any number of them . But I 've got used to it now and I see it 's so much better . '' `` What has become of your story club ? I have n't heard you speak of it for a long time . '' `` The story club is n't in existence any longer . We had n't time for it -- and anyhow I think we had got tired of it . It was silly to be writing about love and murder and elopements and mysteries . Miss Stacy sometimes has us write a story for training in composition , but she wo n't let us write anything but what might happen in Avonlea in our own lives , and she criticizes it very sharply and makes us criticize our own too . I never thought my compositions had so many faults until I began to look for them myself . I felt so ashamed I wanted to give up altogether , but Miss Stacy said I could learn to write well if I only trained myself to be my own severest critic . And so I am trying to . '' `` You 've only two more months before the Entrance , '' said Marilla . `` Do you think you 'll be able to get through ? '' Anne shivered . `` I do n't know . Sometimes I think I 'll be all right -- and then I get horribly afraid . We 've studied hard and Miss Stacy has drilled us thoroughly , but we may n't get through for all that . We 've each got a stumbling block . Mine is geometry of course , and Jane 's is Latin , and Ruby and Charlie 's is algebra , and Josie 's is arithmetic . Moody Spurgeon says he feels it in his bones that he is going to fail in English history .
Miss Stacy is going to give us examinations XXXXX June just as hard as we 'll have at the Entrance and mark us just as strictly , so we 'll have some idea .
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