But Anne flushed . `` I shall never forgive myself for whipping Anthony . '' `` Nonsense , dear , he deserved it . And it agreed with him . You have had no trouble with him since and he has come to think there 's nobody like you . Your kindness won his love after the idea that a ` girl was no good ' was rooted out of his stubborn mind . '' `` He may have deserved it , but that is not the point . If I had calmly and deliberately decided to whip him because I thought it a just punishment for him I would not feel over it as I do . But the truth is , Mrs. Allan , that I just flew into a temper and whipped him because of that . I was n't thinking whether it was just or unjust ... even if he had n't deserved it I 'd have done it just the same . That is what humiliates me . '' `` Well , we all make mistakes , dear , so just put it behind you . We should regret our mistakes and learn from them , but never carry them forward into the future with us . There goes Gilbert Blythe on his wheel ... home for his vacation too , I suppose . How are you and he getting on with your studies ? '' `` Pretty well . We plan to finish the Virgil tonight ... there are only twenty lines to do . Then we are not going to study any more until September . '' `` Do you think you will ever get to college ? '' `` Oh , I do n't know . ''
Anne looked dreamily afar XXXXX the opal-tinted horizon .
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