`` She has ideals of duty , too . I do n't see how you can take such a responsibility on your shoulders . I could n't . '' '' ` Because right is right to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence , ' '' quoted Gilbert . `` Oh , you think a couplet of poetry a convincing argument ! '' scoffed Anne . `` That is so like a man . '' And then she laughed in spite of herself . It sounded so like an echo of Miss Cornelia . `` Well , if you wo n't accept Tennyson as an authority , perhaps you will believe the words of a Greater than he , '' said Gilbert seriously . '' ` Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free . ' I believe that , Anne , with all my heart . It 's the greatest and grandest verse in the Bible -- or in any literature -- and the TRUEST , if there are comparative degrees of trueness . And it 's the first duty of a man to tell the truth , as he sees it and believes it . '' `` In this case the truth wo n't make poor Leslie free , '' sighed Anne . `` It will probably end in still more bitter bondage for her . Oh , Gilbert , I CA N'T think you are right . '' CHAPTER 30 LESLIE DECIDES A sudden outbreak of a virulent type of influenza at the Glen and down at the fishing village kept Gilbert so busy for the next fortnight that he had no time to pay the promised visit to Captain Jim . Anne hoped against hope that he had abandoned the idea about Dick Moore , and , resolving to let sleeping dogs lie , she said no more about the subject . But she thought of it incessantly .
`` I wonder if it would be right for me XXXXX tell him that Leslie cares for Owen , '' she thought .
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