Then she snatched up the paper . Yes , she had passed -- there was her name at the very top of a list of two hundred ! That moment was worth living for . `` You did just splendidly , Anne , '' puffed Diana , recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak , for Anne , starry eyed and rapt , had not uttered a word . `` Father brought the paper home from Bright River not ten minutes ago -- it came out on the afternoon train , you know , and wo n't be here till tomorrow by mail -- and when I saw the pass list I just rushed over like a wild thing . You 've all passed , every one of you , Moody Spurgeon and all , although he 's conditioned in history . Jane and Ruby did pretty well -- they 're halfway up -- and so did Charlie . Josie just scraped through with three marks to spare , but you 'll see she 'll put on as many airs as if she 'd led . Wo n't Miss Stacy be delighted ? Oh , Anne , what does it feel like to see your name at the head of a pass list like that ? If it were me I know I 'd go crazy with joy . I am pretty near crazy as it is , but you 're as calm and cool as a spring evening . '' `` I 'm just dazzled inside , '' said Anne . `` I want to say a hundred things , and I ca n't find words to say them in . I never dreamed of this -- yes , I did too , just once ! I let myself think ONCE , ` What if I should come out first ? ' quakingly , you know , for it seemed so vain and presumptuous to think I could lead the Island . Excuse me a minute , Diana . I must run right out to the field to tell Matthew . Then we 'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others . ''
They hurried to the hayfield below the barn where Matthew was coiling hay , and , XXXXX luck would have it , Mrs. Lynde was talking to Marilla at the lane fence .
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