`` Anyhow , '' resumed the merciless Mr. Harrison , `` I do n't see why MAURICE LENNOX did n't get her . He was twice the man the other is . He did bad things , but he did them . Perceval had n't time for anything but mooning . '' `` Mooning . '' That was even worse than `` pitching ! '' `` MAURICE LENNOX was the villain , '' said Anne indignantly . `` I do n't see why every one likes him better than PERCEVAL . '' `` Perceval is too good . He 's aggravating . Next time you write about a hero put a little spice of human nature in him . '' `` AVERIL could n't have married MAURICE . He was bad . '' `` She 'd have reformed him . You can reform a man ; you ca n't reform a jelly-fish , of course . Your story is n't bad -- it 's kind of interesting , I 'll admit . But you 're too young to write a story that would be worth while . Wait ten years . '' Anne made up her mind that the next time she wrote a story she would n't ask anybody to criticize it . It was too discouraging .
She would not read the story to Gilbert , although she told him XXXXX it .
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