asked Gilbert . `` Oh , yes , I suppose I shall have to , although I know I 'll hate to do it . But you can keep them in at recess or stand them on the floor or give them lines to write . '' `` I suppose you wo n't punish the girls by making them sit with the boys ? '' said Jane slyly . Gilbert and Anne looked at each other and smiled rather foolishly . Once upon a time , Anne had been made to sit with Gilbert for punishment and sad and bitter had been the consequences thereof . `` Well , time will tell which is the best way , '' said Jane philosophically as they parted . Anne went back to Green Gables by way of Birch Path , shadowy , rustling , fern-scented , through Violet Vale and past Willowmere , where dark and light kissed each other under the firs , and down through Lover 's Lane ... spots she and Diana had so named long ago . She walked slowly , enjoying the sweetness of wood and field and the starry summer twilight , and thinking soberly about the new duties she was to take up on the morrow . When she reached the yard at Green Gables Mrs. Lynde 's loud , decided tones floated out through the open kitchen window . `` Mrs. Lynde has come up to give me good advice about tomorrow , '' thought Anne with a grimace , `` but I do n't believe I 'll go in . Her advice is much like pepper , I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses . I 'll run over and have a chat with Mr. Harrison instead . '' This was not the first time Anne had run over and chatted with Mr. Harrison since the notable affair of the Jersey cow . She had been there several evenings and Mr. Harrison and she were very good friends , although there were times and seasons when Anne found the outspokenness on which he prided himself rather trying . Ginger still continued to regard her with suspicion , and never failed to greet her sarcastically as `` redheaded snippet . '' Mr. Harrison had tried vainly to break him of the habit by jumping excitedly up whenever he saw Anne coming and exclaiming , `` Bless my soul , here 's that pretty little girl again , '' or something equally flattering . But Ginger saw through the scheme and scorned it . Anne was never to know how many compliments Mr. Harrison paid her behind her back .
He certainly never paid her any XXXXX her face .
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