One was a good deal bigger than the other and Marilla did n't say which was mine . But I give the biggest piece to Dora . That was good of me , was n't it ? '' `` Very good , and very manly , Davy . '' `` Of course , '' admitted Davy , `` Dora was n't very hungry and she only et half her slice and then she give the rest to me . But I did n't know she was going to do that when I give it to her , so I WAS good , Anne . '' In the twilight Anne sauntered down to the Dryad 's Bubble and saw Gilbert Blythe coming down through the dusky Haunted Wood . She had a sudden realization that Gilbert was a schoolboy no longer . And how manly he looked -- the tall , frank-faced fellow , with the clear , straightforward eyes and the broad shoulders . Anne thought Gilbert was a very handsome lad , even though he did n't look at all like her ideal man . She and Diana had long ago decided what kind of a man they admired and their tastes seemed exactly similar . He must be very tall and distinguished looking , with melancholy , inscrutable eyes , and a melting , sympathetic voice . There was nothing either melancholy or inscrutable in Gilbert 's physiognomy , but of course that did n't matter in friendship ! Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked approvingly at Anne . If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne , even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul . Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy ; but a boy has his dreams as have others , and in Gilbert 's future there was always a girl with big , limpid gray eyes , and a face as fine and delicate as a flower . He had made up his mind , also , that his future must be worthy of its goddess . Even in quiet Avonlea there were temptations to be met and faced . White Sands youth were a rather `` fast '' set , and Gilbert was popular wherever he went . But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne 's friendship and perhaps some distant day her love ; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it .
She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl , whose ideals are high and pure , wields over her friends ; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful XXXXX those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them .
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