`` I wonder why everybody seems to think I ought to marry Gilbert Blythe , '' said Anne petulantly . `` Because you were made and meant for each other , Anne -- that is why . You need n't toss that young head of yours . It 's a fact . '' Chapter XXIV Enter Jonas `` PROSPECT POINT , `` August 20th . `` Dear Anne -- spelled -- with -- an -- E , '' wrote Phil , `` I must prop my eyelids open long enough to write you . I 've neglected you shamefully this summer , honey , but all my other correspondents have been neglected , too . I have a huge pile of letters to answer , so I must gird up the loins of my mind and hoe in . Excuse my mixed metaphors . I 'm fearfully sleepy . Last night Cousin Emily and I were calling at a neighbor 's . There were several other callers there , and as soon as those unfortunate creatures left , our hostess and her three daughters picked them all to pieces . I knew they would begin on Cousin Emily and me as soon as the door shut behind us . When we came home Mrs. Lilly informed us that the aforesaid neighbor 's hired boy was supposed to be down with scarlet fever . You can always trust Mrs. Lilly to tell you cheerful things like that . I have a horror of scarlet fever . I could n't sleep when I went to bed for thinking of it . I tossed and tumbled about , dreaming fearful dreams when I did snooze for a minute ; and at three I wakened up with a high fever , a sore throat , and a raging headache . I knew I had scarlet fever ; I got up in a panic and hunted up Cousin Emily 's ` doctor book ' to read up the symptoms . Anne , I had them all .
So I went back to bed , and knowing the worst , slept like a top the rest XXXXX the night .
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