CHAPTER XXVI . The Story Club Is Formed Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again . To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat , stale , and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks . Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before the concert ? At first , as she told Diana , she did not really think she could . `` I 'm positively certain , Diana , that life can never be quite the same again as it was in those olden days , '' she said mournfully , as if referring to a period of at least fifty years back . `` Perhaps after a while I 'll get used to it , but I 'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life . I suppose that is why Marilla disapproves of them . Marilla is such a sensible woman . It must be a great deal better to be sensible ; but still , I do n't believe I 'd really want to be a sensible person , because they are so unromantic . Mrs. Lynde says there is no danger of my ever being one , but you can never tell . I feel just now that I may grow up to be sensible yet . But perhaps that is only because I 'm tired . I simply could n't sleep last night for ever so long . I just lay awake and imagined the concert over and over again . That 's one splendid thing about such affairs -- it 's so lovely to look back to them . '' Eventually , however , Avonlea school slipped back into its old groove and took up its old interests . To be sure , the concert left traces . Ruby Gillis and Emma White , who had quarreled over a point of precedence in their platform seats , no longer sat at the same desk , and a promising friendship of three years was broken up . Josie Pye and Julia Bell did not `` speak '' for three months , because Josie Pye had told Bessie Wright that Julia Bell 's bow when she got up to recite made her think of a chicken jerking its head , and Bessie told Julia .
None of the Sloanes would have any dealings with the Bells , because the Bells had declared that the Sloanes had too much to do in the program , and the Sloanes had retorted XXXXX the Bells were not capable of doing the little they had to do properly .
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