`` At noon we went home for dinner and then back again for history in the afternoon . The history was a pretty hard paper and I got dreadfully mixed up in the dates . Still , I think I did fairly well today . But oh , Diana , tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid . If I thought the multiplication table would help me any I would recite it from now till tomorrow morning . `` I went down to see the other girls this evening . On my way I met Moody Spurgeon wandering distractedly around . He said he knew he had failed in history and he was born to be a disappointment to his parents and he was going home on the morning train ; and it would be easier to be a carpenter than a minister , anyhow . I cheered him up and persuaded him to stay to the end because it would be unfair to Miss Stacy if he did n't . Sometimes I have wished I was born a boy , but when I see Moody Spurgeon I 'm always glad I 'm a girl and not his sister . `` Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boardinghouse ; she had just discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper . When she recovered we went uptown and had an ice cream . How we wished you had been with us . `` Oh , Diana , if only the geometry examination were over ! But there , as Mrs. Lynde would say , the sun will go on rising and setting whether I fail in geometry or not . That is true but not especially comforting . I think I 'd rather it did n't go on if I failed ! `` Yours devotedly , `` Anne '' The geometry examination and all the others were over in due time and Anne arrived home on Friday evening , rather tired but with an air of chastened triumph about her . Diana was over at Green Gables when she arrived and they met as if they had been parted for years . `` You old darling , it 's perfectly splendid to see you back again .
It seems like an age since you went XXXXX town and oh , Anne , how did you get along ? ''
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