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Tillie Boulter says the master is DEAD GONE on her.

She's got a beautiful complexion and curly brown hair and she does it up so elegantly.

She sits in the long seat at the back and he sits there, too, most of the time-to explain her lessons, he says.

But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate and when Prissy read it she blushed as red as a beet and giggled; and Ruby Gillis says she doesn't believe it had anything to do with the lesson."

"Anne Shirley, don't let me hear you talking about your teacher in that way again," said Marilla sharply.

"You don't go to school to criticize the master.

I guess he can teach YOU something, and it's your business to learn.

And I want you to understand right off that you are not to come home telling tales about him.

That is something I won't encourage.

I hope you were a good girl."

"Indeed I was," said Anne comfortably.

"It wasn't so hard as you might imagine, either.

I sit with Diana.

Our seat is right by the window and we can look down to the Lake of Shining Waters.

There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinnertime.

It's so nice to have a lot of little girls to play with.

But of course I like Diana best and always will.

I ADORE Diana.

I'm dreadfully far behind the others.

They're all in the fifth book and I'm only in the fourth.

I feel that it's kind of a disgrace.

But there's not one of them has such an imagination as I have and I soon found that out.

We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.

Mr. Phillips said my spelling was disgraceful and he held up my slate so that everybody could see it, all marked over.

I felt so mortified, Marilla; he might have been politer to a stranger, I think.

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