queried Mr. Phillips sternly . `` Yes , sir , '' said Anne slowly `` but I did n't suppose you really meant it . '' `` I assure you I did '' -- still with the sarcastic inflection which all the children , and Anne especially , hated . It flicked on the raw . `` Obey me at once . '' For a moment Anne looked as if she meant to disobey . Then , realizing that there was no help for it , she rose haughtily , stepped across the aisle , sat down beside Gilbert Blythe , and buried her face in her arms on the desk . Ruby Gillis , who got a glimpse of it as it went down , told the others going home from school that she 'd `` acksually never seen anything like it -- it was so white , with awful little red spots in it . '' To Anne , this was as the end of all things . It was bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among a dozen equally guilty ones ; it was worse still to be sent to sit with a boy , but that that boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury to a degree utterly unbearable . Anne felt that she could not bear it and it would be of no use to try . Her whole being seethed with shame and anger and humiliation . At first the other scholars looked and whispered and giggled and nudged . But as Anne never lifted her head and as Gilbert worked fractions as if his whole soul was absorbed in them and them only , they soon returned to their own tasks and Anne was forgotten . When Mr. Phillips called the history class out Anne should have gone , but Anne did not move , and Mr. Phillips , who had been writing some verses `` To Priscilla '' before he called the class , was thinking about an obstinate rhyme still and never missed her . Once , when nobody was looking , Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it , `` You are sweet , '' and slipped it under the curve of Anne 's arm . Whereupon Anne arose , took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers , dropped it on the floor , ground it to powder beneath her heel , and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert . When school went out Anne marched to her desk , ostentatiously took out everything therein , books and writing tablet , pen and ink , testament and arithmetic , and piled them neatly on her cracked slate . `` What are you taking all those things home for , Anne ? '' Diana wanted to know , as soon as they were out on the road .
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