Most of the good folks , not knowing about Marilla 's eyes , thought she was foolish . Mrs. Allan did not . She told Anne so in approving words that brought tears of pleasure to the girl 's eyes . Neither did good Mrs. Lynde . She came up one evening and found Anne and Marilla sitting at the front door in the warm , scented summer dusk . They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odor of mint filled the dewy air . Mrs. Rachel deposited her substantial person upon the stone bench by the door , behind which grew a row of tall pink and yellow hollyhocks , with a long breath of mingled weariness and relief . `` I declare I 'm getting glad to sit down . I 've been on my feet all day , and two hundred pounds is a good bit for two feet to carry round . It 's a great blessing not to be fat , Marilla . I hope you appreciate it . Well , Anne , I hear you 've given up your notion of going to college . I was real glad to hear it . You 've got as much education now as a woman can be comfortable with . I do n't believe in girls going to college with the men and cramming their heads full of Latin and Greek and all that nonsense . '' `` But I 'm going to study Latin and Greek just the same , Mrs. Lynde , '' said Anne laughing . `` I 'm going to take my Arts course right here at Green Gables , and study everything that I would at college . '' Mrs. Lynde lifted her hands in holy horror . `` Anne Shirley , you 'll kill yourself . '' `` Not a bit of it .
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