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 at Queen 's , Anne and Jane walked down the street together . Jane was smiling and happy ; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least ; further considerations troubled Jane not at all ; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon . For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world ; and although ambitions are well worth having , they are not to be cheaply won , but exact their dues of work and self-denial , anxiety and discouragement . Anne was pale and quiet ; in ten more minutes she would know who had won the medal and who the Avery . Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem , just then , to be anything worth being called Time . `` Of course you 'll win one of them anyhow , '' said Jane , who could n't understand how the faculty could be so unfair as to order it otherwise . `` I have not hope of the Avery , '' said Anne . `` Everybody says Emily Clay will win it .
And I 'm not going to march up to that bulletin board and look XXXXX it before everybody .
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