Diana was away so that she had no excuse to linger . The dreadful return journey had to be faced . Anne went back over it with shut eyes , preferring to take the risk of dashing her brains out among the boughs to that of seeing a white thing . When she finally stumbled over the log bridge she drew one long shivering breath of relief . `` Well , so nothing caught you ? '' said Marilla unsympathetically . `` Oh , Mar -- Marilla , '' chattered Anne , `` I 'll b-b-be contt-tented with c-c-commonplace places after this . '' CHAPTER XXI . A New Departure in Flavorings `` Dear me , there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world , as Mrs. Lynde says , '' remarked Anne plaintively , putting her slate and books down on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red eyes with a very damp handkerchief . `` Was n't it fortunate , Marilla , that I took an extra handkerchief to school today ? I had a presentiment that it would be needed . '' `` I never thought you were so fond of Mr. Phillips that you 'd require two handkerchiefs to dry your tears just because he was going away , '' said Marilla . `` I do n't think I was crying because I was really so very fond of him , '' reflected Anne . `` I just cried because all the others did . It was Ruby Gillis started it . Ruby Gillis has always declared she hated Mr. Phillips , but just as soon as he got up to make his farewell speech she burst into tears . Then all the girls began to cry , one after the other . I tried to hold out , Marilla . I tried to remember the time Mr. Phillips made me sit with Gil -- with a , boy ; and the time he spelled my name without an e on the blackboard ; and how he said I was the worst dunce he ever saw at geometry and laughed at my spelling ; and all the times he had been so horrid and sarcastic ; but somehow I could n't , Marilla , and I just had to cry too . Jane Andrews has been talking for a month about how glad she 'd be when Mr. Phillips went away and she declared she 'd never shed a tear .
Well , she was worse than any XXXXX us and had to borrow a handkerchief from her brother -- of course the boys did n't cry -- because she had n't brought one of her own , not expecting to need it .
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