"Reckon you're glad we kept her, Marilla?" whispered Matthew, speaking for the first time since he had entered the hall, when Anne had finished her essay.
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"It's not the first time I've been glad," retorted Marilla. "You do like to rub things in, Matthew Cuthbert."
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Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.
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"Aren't you proud of that Anne-girl? I am," she said.
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Anne went home to Avonlea with Matthew and Marilla that evening.
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She had not been home since April and she felt that she could not wait another day.
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The apple blossoms were out and the world was fresh and young.
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Diana was at Green Gables to meet her.
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In her own white room, where Marilla had set a flowering house rose on the window sill, Anne looked about her and drew a long breath of happiness.
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"Oh, Diana, it's so good to be back again.
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It's so good to see those pointed firs coming out against the pink sky-and that white orchard and the old Snow Queen.
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Isn't the breath of the mint delicious? And that tea rose-why, it's a song and a hope and a prayer all in one.
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And it's GOOD to see you again, Diana!"
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"I thought you liked that Stella Maynard better than me," said Diana reproachfully. "Josie Pye told me you did. Josie said you were INFATUATED with her."
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Anne laughed and pelted Diana with the faded "June lilies" of her bouquet.
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"Stella Maynard is the dearest girl in the world except one and you are that one, Diana," she said.
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"I love you more than ever-and I've so many things to tell you.
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But just now I feel as if it were joy enough to sit here and look at you.
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I'm tired, I think-tired of being studious and ambitious.
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I mean to spend at least two hours tomorrow lying out in the orchard grass, thinking of absolutely nothing."
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"You've done splendidly, Anne. I suppose you won't be teaching now that you've won the Avery?"
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"No. I'm going to Redmond in September. Doesn't it seem wonderful? I'll have a brand new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three glorious, golden months of vacation. Jane and Ruby are going to teach. Isn't it splendid to think we all got through even to Moody Spurgeon and Josie Pye?"
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"The Newbridge trustees have offered Jane their school already," said Diana.
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"Gilbert Blythe is going to teach, too.
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