If anyone wrote my name up with his I 'd never GET over it , Diana Barry . But it IS nice to keep head of your class . '' `` You 'll have Gilbert in your class after this , '' said Diana , `` and he 's used to being head of his class , I can tell you . He 's only in the fourth book although he 's nearly fourteen . Four years ago his father was sick and had to go out to Alberta for his health and Gilbert went with him . They were there three years and Gil did n't go to school hardly any until they came back . You wo n't find it so easy to keep head after this , Anne . '' `` I 'm glad , '' said Anne quickly . `` I could n't really feel proud of keeping head of little boys and girls of just nine or ten . I got up yesterday spelling ` ebullition . ' Josie Pye was head and , mind you , she peeped in her book . Mr. Phillips did n't see her -- he was looking at Prissy Andrews -- but I did . I just swept her a look of freezing scorn and she got as red as a beet and spelled it wrong after all . '' `` Those Pye girls are cheats all round , '' said Diana indignantly , as they climbed the fence of the main road . `` Gertie Pye actually went and put her milk bottle in my place in the brook yesterday . Did you ever ? I do n't speak to her now . '' When Mr. Phillips was in the back of the room hearing Prissy Andrews 's Latin , Diana whispered to Anne , `` That 's Gilbert Blythe sitting right across the aisle from you , Anne . Just look at him and see if you do n't think he 's handsome . '' Anne looked accordingly .
She had a good chance XXXXX do so , for the said Gilbert Blythe was absorbed in stealthily pinning the long yellow braid of Ruby Gillis , who sat in front of him , to the back of her seat .
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