`` I ... I do n't think I shall object , '' said Miss Lavendar . She turned and went in very quickly ; but a moment later she was waving a gay and smiling good-bye to them from the window . `` I like Miss Lavendar , '' announced Paul , as they walked through the beech woods . `` I like the way she looked at me , and I like her stone house , and I like Charlotta the Fourth . I wish Grandma Irving had a Charlotta the Fourth instead of a Mary Joe . I feel sure Charlotta the Fourth would n't think I was wrong in my upper story when I told her what I think about things . Was n't that a splendid tea we had , teacher ? Grandma says a boy should n't be thinking about what he gets to eat , but he ca n't help it sometimes when he is real hungry . YOU know , teacher . I do n't think Miss Lavendar would make a boy eat porridge for breakfast if he did n't like it . She 'd get things for him he did like . But of course '' ... Paul was nothing if not fair-minded ... `` that might n't be very good for him . It 's very nice for a change though , teacher . YOU know . '' XXIV A Prophet in His Own Country One May day Avonlea folks were mildly excited over some `` Avonlea Notes , '' signed `` Observer , '' which appeared in the Charlottetown ` Daily Enterprise . ' Gossip ascribed the authorship thereof to Charlie Sloane , partly because the said Charlie had indulged in similar literary flights in times past , and partly because one of the notes seemed to embody a sneer at Gilbert Blythe . Avonlea juvenile society persisted in regarding Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane as rivals in the good graces of a certain damsel with gray eyes and an imagination . Gossip , as usual , was wrong . Gilbert Blythe , aided and abetted by Anne , had written the notes , putting in the one about himself as a blind . Only two of the notes have any bearing on this history : `` Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom .
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