`` But think of the worthy object , '' pleaded Anne . `` A flag will cultivate a spirit of patriotism , Marilla . '' `` Fudge ! There 's precious little patriotism in the thoughts of any of you . All you want is a good time . '' `` Well , when you can combine patriotism and fun , is n't it all right ? Of course it 's real nice to be getting up a concert . We 're going to have six choruses and Diana is to sing a solo . I 'm in two dialogues -- ` The Society for the Suppression of Gossip ' and ` The Fairy Queen . ' The boys are going to have a dialogue too . And I 'm to have two recitations , Marilla . I just tremble when I think of it , but it 's a nice thrilly kind of tremble . And we 're to have a tableau at the last -- ` Faith , Hope and Charity . ' Diana and Ruby and I are to be in it , all draped in white with flowing hair . I 'm to be Hope , with my hands clasped -- so -- and my eyes uplifted . I 'm going to practice my recitations in the garret . Do n't be alarmed if you hear me groaning . I have to groan heartrendingly in one of them , and it 's really hard to get up a good artistic groan , Marilla . Josie Pye is sulky because she did n't get the part she wanted in the dialogue . She wanted to be the fairy queen .
That would have been ridiculous , XXXXX who ever heard of a fairy queen as fat as Josie ?
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