She says it would only tire and confuse us and we are to go out walking and not think about the exams at all and go to bed early . It 's good advice , but I expect it will be hard to follow ; good advice is apt to be , I think . Prissy Andrews told me that she sat up half the night every night of her Entrance week and crammed for dear life ; and I had determined to sit up AT LEAST as long as she did . It was so kind of your Aunt Josephine to ask me to stay at Beechwood while I 'm in town . '' `` You 'll write to me while you 're in , wo n't you ? '' `` I 'll write Tuesday night and tell you how the first day goes , '' promised Anne . `` I 'll be haunting the post office Wednesday , '' vowed Diana . Anne went to town the following Monday and on Wednesday Diana haunted the post office , as agreed , and got her letter . `` Dearest Diana '' -LSB- wrote Anne -RSB- , `` Here it is Tuesday night and I 'm writing this in the library at Beechwood . Last night I was horribly lonesome all alone in my room and wished so much you were with me . I could n't `` cram '' because I 'd promised Miss Stacy not to , but it was as hard to keep from opening my history as it used to be to keep from reading a story before my lessons were learned . `` This morning Miss Stacy came for me and we went to the Academy , calling for Jane and Ruby and Josie on our way . Ruby asked me to feel her hands and they were as cold as ice . Josie said I looked as if I had n't slept a wink and she did n't believe I was strong enough to stand the grind of the teacher 's course even if I did get through . There are times and seasons even yet when I do n't feel that I 've made any great headway in learning to like Josie Pye ! `` When we reached the Academy there were scores of students there from all over the Island . The first person we saw was Moody Spurgeon sitting on the steps and muttering away to himself . Jane asked him what on earth he was doing and he said he was repeating the multiplication table over and over to steady his nerves and for pity 's sake not to interrupt him , because if he stopped for a moment he got frightened and forgot everything he ever knew , but the multiplication table kept all his facts firmly in their proper place ! `` When we were assigned to our rooms Miss Stacy had to leave us . Jane and I sat together and Jane was so composed that I envied her .
No need of the multiplication table XXXXX good , steady , sensible Jane !
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