`` I 've lost seven pounds in the last two weeks , '' sighed Jane . `` It 's no use to say do n't worry . I WILL worry . Worrying helps you some -- it seems as if you were doing something when you 're worrying . It would be dreadful if I failed to get my license after going to Queen 's all winter and spending so much money . '' '' I do n't care , '' said Josie Pye . `` If I do n't pass this year I 'm coming back next . My father can afford to send me . Anne , Frank Stockley says that Professor Tremaine said Gilbert Blythe was sure to get the medal and that Emily Clay would likely win the Avery scholarship . '' `` That may make me feel badly tomorrow , Josie , '' laughed Anne , `` but just now I honestly feel that as long as I know the violets are coming out all purple down in the hollow below Green Gables and that little ferns are poking their heads up in Lovers ' Lane , it 's not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not . I 've done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the ` joy of the strife . ' Next to trying and winning , the best thing is trying and failing . Girls , do n't talk about exams ! Look at that arch of pale green sky over those houses and picture to yourself what it must look like over the purply-dark beech-woods back of Avonlea . '' `` What are you going to wear for commencement , Jane ? '' asked Ruby practically . Jane and Josie both answered at once and the chatter drifted into a side eddy of fashions . But Anne , with her elbows on the window sill , her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands , and her eyes filled with visions , looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth 's own optimism . All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years -- each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet . CHAPTER XXXVI .
The Glory and the Dream On the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be posted on the bulletin board XXXXX Queen 's , Anne and Jane walked down the street together .
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