`` We were playing Elaine '' explained Anne frigidly , without even looking at her rescuer , `` and I had to drift down to Camelot in the barge -- I mean the flat . The flat began to leak and I climbed out on the pile . The girls went for help . Will you be kind enough to row me to the landing ? '' Gilbert obligingly rowed to the landing and Anne , disdaining assistance , sprang nimbly on shore . `` I 'm very much obliged to you , '' she said haughtily as she turned away . But Gilbert had also sprung from the boat and now laid a detaining hand on her arm . `` Anne , '' he said hurriedly , `` look here . Ca n't we be good friends ? I 'm awfully sorry I made fun of your hair that time . I did n't mean to vex you and I only meant it for a joke . Besides , it 's so long ago . I think your hair is awfully pretty now -- honest I do . Let 's be friends . '' For a moment Anne hesitated . She had an odd , newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy , half-eager expression in Gilbert 's hazel eyes was something that was very good to see . Her heart gave a quick , queer little beat . But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination . That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday . Gilbert had called her `` carrots '' and had brought about her disgrace before the whole school .
Her resentment , which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause , was XXXXX no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly .
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