`` I guess we must have made as much as ten dollars . Mind you , Mr. Allan is going to send an account of it to the Charlottetown papers . '' `` Oh , Diana , will we really see our names in print ? It makes me thrill to think of it . Your solo was perfectly elegant , Diana . I felt prouder than you did when it was encored . I just said to myself , ` It is my dear bosom friend who is so honored . ' '' `` Well , your recitations just brought down the house , Anne . That sad one was simply splendid . '' `` Oh , I was so nervous , Diana . When Mr. Allan called out my name I really can not tell how I ever got up on that platform . I felt as if a million eyes were looking at me and through me , and for one dreadful moment I was sure I could n't begin at all . Then I thought of my lovely puffed sleeves and took courage . I knew that I must live up to those sleeves , Diana . So I started in , and my voice seemed to be coming from ever so far away . I just felt like a parrot . It 's providential that I practiced those recitations so often up in the garret , or I 'd never have been able to get through . Did I groan all right ? '' `` Yes , indeed , you groaned lovely , '' assured Diana . `` I saw old Mrs. Sloane wiping away tears when I sat down .
It was splendid XXXXX think I had touched somebody 's heart .
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