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 that the Bells were not capable of doing the little they had to do properly . Finally , Charlie Sloane fought Moody Spurgeon MacPherson , because Moody Spurgeon had said that Anne Shirley put on airs about her recitations , and Moody Spurgeon was `` licked '' ; consequently Moody Spurgeon 's sister , Ella May , would not `` speak '' to Anne Shirley all the rest of the winter . With the exception of these trifling frictions , work in Miss Stacy 's little kingdom went on with regularity and smoothness . The winter weeks slipped by . It was an unusually mild winter , with so little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by way of the Birch Path . On Anne 's birthday they were tripping lightly down it , keeping eyes and ears alert amid all their chatter , for Miss Stacy had told them that they must soon write a composition on `` A Winter 's Walk in the Woods , '' and it behooved them to be observant . `` Just think , Diana , I 'm thirteen years old today , '' remarked Anne in an awed voice . `` I can scarcely realize that I 'm in my teens . When I woke this morning it seemed to me that everything must be different . You 've been thirteen for a month , so I suppose it does n't seem such a novelty to you as it does to me . It makes life seem so much more interesting . In two more years I 'll be really grown up . It 's a great comfort to think that I 'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at . ''
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