If Prillie would spend less time making eyes at the boys over her slate she might do better . I feel quite sure that Jack Gillis works her class sums for her , though I 've never been able to catch him red-handed . '' `` Have you succeeded in reconciling Mrs. DonNELL 's hopeful son to his saintly name ? '' `` Yes , '' laughed Anne , `` but it was really a difficult task . At first , when I called him ` St. Clair ' he would not take the least notice until I 'd spoken two or three times ; and then , when the other boys nudged him , he would look up with such an aggrieved air , as if I 'd called him John or Charlie and he could n't be expected to know I meant him . So I kept him in after school one night and talked kindly to him . I told him his mother wished me to call him St. Clair and I could n't go against her wishes . He saw it when it was all explained out ... he 's really a very reasonable little fellow ... and he said I could call him St. Clair but that he 'd ` lick the stuffing ' out of any of the boys that tried it . Of course , I had to rebuke him again for using such shocking language . Since then I call him St. Clair and the boys call him Jake and all goes smoothly . He informs me that he means to be a carpenter , but Mrs. DonNELL says I am to make a college professor out of him . '' The mention of college gave a new direction to Gilbert 's thoughts , and they talked for a time of their plans and wishes ... gravely , earnestly , hopefully , as youth loves to talk , while the future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities . Gilbert had finally made up his mind that he was going to be a doctor . `` It 's a splendid profession , '' he said enthusiastically . `` A fellow has to fight something all through life ... did n't somebody once define man as a fighting animal ? ... and I want to fight disease and pain and ignorance ... which are all members one of another . I want to do my share of honest , real work in the world , Anne ... add a little to the sum of human knowledge that all the good men have been accumulating since it began . The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me . It seems to me that is the only way a fellow can get square with his obligations to the race . '' `` I 'd like to add some beauty to life , '' said Anne dreamily .
`` I do n't exactly want to make people KNOW more ... XXXXX I know that IS the noblest ambition ... but I 'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me ... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I had n't been born . ''
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