`` I suppose you will be there in reality in a few days ? '' `` No , not for a fortnight . I 'm going to visit with Phil in Bolingbroke before I go home . You 'll be in Avonlea before I will . '' `` No , I shall not be in Avonlea at all this summer , Anne . I 've been offered a job in the Daily News office and I 'm going to take it . '' `` Oh , '' said Anne vaguely . She wondered what a whole Avonlea summer would be like without Gilbert . Somehow she did not like the prospect . `` Well , '' she concluded flatly , `` it is a good thing for you , of course . '' `` Yes , I 've been hoping I would get it . It will help me out next year . '' `` You must n't work too HARD , '' said Anne , without any very clear idea of what she was saying . She wished desperately that Phil would come out . `` You 've studied very constantly this winter . Is n't this a delightful evening ? Do you know , I found a cluster of white violets under that old twisted tree over there today ? I felt as if I had discovered a gold mine . '' `` You are always discovering gold mines , '' said Gilbert -- also absently . `` Let us go and see if we can find some more , '' suggested Anne eagerly .
`` I 'll call Phil and -- '' `` Never mind Phil and the violets just now , Anne , '' said Gilbert quietly , taking her hand XXXXX a clasp from which she could not free it .
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