Behave yourself and do just what your teacher tells you . '' `` I 'll try to be a model pupil , '' agreed Anne dolefully . `` There wo n't be much fun in it , I expect . Mr. Phillips said Minnie Andrews was a model pupil and there is n't a spark of imagination or life in her . She is just dull and poky and never seems to have a good time . But I feel so depressed that perhaps it will come easy to me now . I 'm going round by the road . I could n't bear to go by the Birch Path all alone . I should weep bitter tears if I did . '' Anne was welcomed back to school with open arms . Her imagination had been sorely missed in games , her voice in the singing and her dramatic ability in the perusal aloud of books at dinner hour . Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading ; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue -- a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school . Sophia Sloane offered to teach her a perfectly elegant new pattern of knit lace , so nice for trimming aprons . Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in , and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion : When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far . `` It 's so nice to be appreciated , '' sighed Anne rapturously to Marilla that night . The girls were not the only scholars who `` appreciated '' her . When Anne went to her seat after dinner hour -- she had been told by Mr. Phillips to sit with the model Minnie Andrews -- she found on her desk a big luscious `` strawberry apple . '' Anne caught it up all ready to take a bite when she remembered that the only place in Avonlea where strawberry apples grew was in the old Blythe orchard on the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters . Anne dropped the apple as if it were a red-hot coal and ostentatiously wiped her fingers on her handkerchief . The apple lay untouched on her desk until the next morning , when little Timothy Andrews , who swept the school and kindled the fire , annexed it as one of his perquisites .
Charlie Sloane 's slate pencil , gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper , costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one , which he sent up XXXXX her after dinner hour , met with a more favorable reception .
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