`` I 've studied as hard all the term as I possibly could and I 've pored over that geometry until I know every proposition in the first book off by heart , even when the letters ARE changed . I just feel tired of everything sensible and I 'm going to let my imagination run riot for the summer . Oh , you need n't be alarmed , Marilla . I 'll only let it run riot within reasonable limits . But I want to have a real good jolly time this summer , for maybe it 's the last summer I 'll be a little girl . Mrs. Lynde says that if I keep stretching out next year as I 've done this I 'll have to put on longer skirts . She says I 'm all running to legs and eyes . And when I put on longer skirts I shall feel that I have to live up to them and be very dignified . It wo n't even do to believe in fairies then , I 'm afraid ; so I 'm going to believe in them with all my whole heart this summer . I think we 're going to have a very gay vacation . Ruby Gillis is going to have a birthday party soon and there 's the Sunday school picnic and the missionary concert next month . And Mr. Barry says that some evening he 'll take Diana and me over to the White Sands Hotel and have dinner there . They have dinner there in the evening , you know . Jane Andrews was over once last summer and she says it was a dazzling sight to see the electric lights and the flowers and all the lady guests in such beautiful dresses . Jane says it was her first glimpse into high life and she 'll never forget it to her dying day . '' Mrs. Lynde came up the next afternoon to find out why Marilla had not been at the Aid meeting on Thursday . When Marilla was not at Aid meeting people knew there was something wrong at Green Gables . `` Matthew had a bad spell with his heart Thursday , '' Marilla explained , `` and I did n't feel like leaving him . Oh , yes , he 's all right again now , but he takes them spells oftener than he used to and I 'm anxious about him . The doctor says he must be careful to avoid excitement .
That 's easy enough , XXXXX Matthew does n't go about looking for excitement by any means and never did , but he 's not to do any very heavy work either and you might as well tell Matthew not to breathe as not to work .
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