Day 9
Poor Anne could not move. She held on and held on, but her arms were getting tired and she knew that she would fall in a minute. Suddenly, there was Gilbert Blythe in his boat!
'Anne Shirley!' he cried. 'What are you doing there?' He did not wait for an answer, but quickly helped Anne into his boat. She didn't say a word. When they arrived at the bridge, she got out and turned away.
'Thank you for helping me,' she said coldly.
But Gilbert jumped out, and put a hand on her arm. 'Anne,' he said quickly, 'I'm sorry I called you “carrots”. It was a long time ago. I think your hair is really nice now. Can we forget it, and be friends?'
For a second Anne wanted to say yes. But then she remembered standing alone in front of the school children all afternoon, because of Gilbert. She would never forgive him for that! 'No,' she replied coldly, 'I shall never be your friend, Gilbert Blythe!'
'All right!' Gilbert jumped angrily back into his boat. 'I'll never ask you again, Anne Shirley!'
Anne walked home with her head held high, but she felt strangely sad, and wanted to cry.
'Why are you always in trouble, Anne?' asked Marilla, when she heard about Anne's adventure.
'Well, I think I'm learning, Marilla,' answered Anne. 'I learn from my mistakes, and after today, I won't use my imagination so much. I don't think Avonlea is the right place for imagination.'
'No, it isn't,' agreed Marilla a little crossly.
When she went out, Matthew, who was sitting quietly in his corner, whispered to Anne, 'Keep a little imagination, Anne, not too much, of course, just a little.'
One day Marilla said, 'Anne, your new teacher, Miss Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for Queen's College in two years' time. Then if you do well, you can study at Queen's in Charlottetown for a year, and after that you'll be a teacher!'
'Oh Marilla! I'd love to be a teacher! But won't it be very expensive?'
'That doesn't matter, Anne. When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago, we decided to look after you as well as we could. Of course we'll pay for you to study.'
So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school, and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work. Diana didn't want to go to Queen's, so she went home early, but Gilbert stayed. He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies, because they both wanted to be first in the examination. Secretly, Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert weren't friends, but it was too late now.
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很喜欢这种形式
太好了!对零基础的学习者来说很合适
感谢喜马拉雅
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