Ruby Gillis wrote a gushing epistle deploring Anne 's absence , assuring her she was horribly missed in everything , asking what the Redmond `` fellows '' were like , and filling the rest with accounts of her own harrowing experiences with her numerous admirers . It was a silly , harmless letter , and Anne would have laughed over it had it not been for the postscript . `` Gilbert seems to be enjoying Redmond , judging from his letters , '' wrote Ruby . `` I do n't think Charlie is so stuck on it . '' So Gilbert was writing to Ruby ! Very well . He had a perfect right to , of course . Only -- !! Anne did not know that Ruby had written the first letter and that Gilbert had answered it from mere courtesy . She tossed Ruby 's letter aside contemptuously . But it took all Diana 's breezy , newsy , delightful epistle to banish the sting of Ruby 's postscript . Diana 's letter contained a little too much Fred , but was otherwise crowded and crossed with items of interest , and Anne almost felt herself back in Avonlea while reading it . Marilla 's was a rather prim and colorless epistle , severely innocent of gossip or emotion . Yet somehow it conveyed to Anne a whiff of the wholesome , simple life at Green Gables , with its savor of ancient peace , and the steadfast abiding love that was there for her . Mrs. Lynde 's letter was full of church news . Having broken up housekeeping , Mrs. Lynde had more time than ever to devote to church affairs and had flung herself into them heart and soul . She was at present much worked up over the poor `` supplies '' they were having in the vacant Avonlea pulpit . `` I do n't believe any but fools enter the ministry nowadays , '' she wrote bitterly . `` Such candidates as they have sent us , and such stuff as they preach ! Half of it ai n't true , and , what 's worse , it ai n't sound doctrine .
The one we have now is the worst XXXXX the lot .
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