Well , I suppose our vacation is almost over . School opens Monday . Has Ruby Gillis got the Carmody school ? '' `` Yes ; Priscilla wrote that she had taken her own home school , so the Carmody trustees gave it to Ruby . I 'm sorry Priscilla is not coming back , but since she ca n't I 'm glad Ruby has got the school . She will be home for Saturdays and it will seem like old times , to have her and Jane and Diana and myself all together again . '' Marilla , just home from Mrs. Lynde 's , was sitting on the back porch step when Anne returned to the house . `` Rachel and I have decided to have our cruise to town tomorrow , '' she said . `` Mr. Lynde is feeling better this week and Rachel wants to go before he has another sick spell . '' `` I intend to get up extra early tomorrow morning , for I 've ever so much to do , '' said Anne virtuously . `` For one thing , I 'm going to shift the feathers from my old bedtick to the new one . I ought to have done it long ago but I 've just kept putting it off ... it 's such a detestable task . It 's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things , and I never mean to again , or else I ca n't comfortably tell my pupils not to do it . That would be inconsistent . Then I want to make a cake for Mr. Harrison and finish my paper on gardens for the A.V.I.S. , and write Stella , and wash and starch my muslin dress , and make Dora 's new apron . '' `` You wo n't get half done , '' said Marilla pessimistically . `` I never yet planned to do a lot of things but something happened to prevent me . '' XX The Way It Often Happens Anne rose betimes the next morning and blithely greeted the fresh day , when the banners of the sunrise were shaken triumphantly across the pearly skies . Green Gables lay in a pool of sunshine , flecked with the dancing shadows of poplar and willow . Beyond the land was Mr. Harrison 's wheatfield , a great , windrippled expanse of pale gold .
The world was so beautiful XXXXX Anne spent ten blissful minutes hanging idly over the garden gate drinking the loveliness in .
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