Miss Stacy was a bright , sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of winning and holding the affections of her pupils and bringing out the best that was in them mentally and morally . Anne expanded like a flower under this wholesome influence and carried home to the admiring Matthew and the critical Marilla glowing accounts of schoolwork and aims . `` I love Miss Stacy with my whole heart , Marilla . She is so ladylike and she has such a sweet voice . When she pronounces my name I feel INSTINCTIVELY that she 's spelling it with an E . We had recitations this afternoon . I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite ` Mary , Queen of Scots . ' I just put my whole soul into it . Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line , ` Now for my father 's arm , ' she said , ` my woman 's heart farewell , ' just made her blood run cold . '' `` Well now , you might recite it for me some of these days , out in the barn , '' suggested Matthew . `` Of course I will , '' said Anne meditatively , `` but I wo n't be able to do it so well , I know . It wo n't be so exciting as it is when you have a whole schoolful before you hanging breathlessly on your words . I know I wo n't be able to make your blood run cold . '' `` Mrs. Lynde says it made HER blood run cold to see the boys climbing to the very tops of those big trees on Bell 's hill after crows ' nests last Friday , '' said Marilla . `` I wonder at Miss Stacy for encouraging it . '' `` But we wanted a crow 's nest for nature study , '' explained Anne . `` That was on our field afternoon . Field afternoons are splendid , Marilla . And Miss Stacy explains everything so beautifully . We have to write compositions on our field afternoons and I write the best ones . ''
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