I 'm such a dunce at it , Matthew . '' `` Well now , I dunno , '' said Matthew soothingly . `` I guess you 're all right at anything . Mr. Phillips told me last week in Blair 's store at Carmody that you was the smartest scholar in school and was making rapid progress . ` Rapid progress ' was his very words . There 's them as runs down Teddy Phillips and says he ai n't much of a teacher , but I guess he 's all right . '' Matthew would have thought anyone who praised Anne was `` all right . '' `` I 'm sure I 'd get on better with geometry if only he would n't change the letters , '' complained Anne . `` I learn the proposition off by heart and then he draws it on the blackboard and puts different letters from what are in the book and I get all mixed up . I do n't think a teacher should take such a mean advantage , do you ? We 're studying agriculture now and I 've found out at last what makes the roads red . It 's a great comfort . I wonder how Marilla and Mrs. Lynde are enjoying themselves . Mrs. Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it 's an awful warning to the electors . She says if women were allowed to vote we would soon see a blessed change . What way do you vote , Matthew ? '' `` Conservative , '' said Matthew promptly . To vote Conservative was part of Matthew 's religion . `` Then I 'm Conservative too , '' said Anne decidedly . `` I 'm glad because Gil -- because some of the boys in school are Grits .
I guess Mr. Phillips is a Grit too XXXXX Prissy Andrews 's father is one , and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl 's mother in religion and her father in politics .
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