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Speaker 1: big happy birthday wish to may Rose, who has a

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Speaker 1: birthday on September first. Happy birthday to you. I hope

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Speaker 1: you have a very special day. Today's story is an

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Speaker 1: excerpt from one of my favorite books, and of green Gables.

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Speaker 1: I have read this book and watched the movie more

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Speaker 1: times than I can count, and I love this scene

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Speaker 1: from the classroom. I hope you enjoy hearing it. And

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Speaker 1: Of green Gables excerpt from chapter fifteen and now this

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Speaker 1: crisp September morning, Anne and Diana were tripping blithely down

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Speaker 1: the birch path, two of the happiest little girls in Avonlea.

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Speaker 1: I guess Gilbert Blythe will be in school today, that Diana.

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Speaker 1: He's been visiting his cousins over in New Brunswick all

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Speaker 1: summer and he only came home Saturday night. He's awfully handsome, Anne,

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Speaker 1: and he teases the girl something terrible. He just torments

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Speaker 1: our lives out. Diana's voice indicated that she rather liked

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Speaker 1: having her life tormented out. Gilbert Blythe said, Anne, isn't

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Speaker 1: wall with Julia Bell's and a big take notice over them. Yes,

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Speaker 1: said Diana, tossing her head. But I'm sure he doesn't

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Speaker 1: like Julia Bell so very much. I heard him say

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Speaker 1: he studied the multiplication table by her freckles. Oh, don't

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Speaker 1: speak about freckles to me, implored Anne. It isn't delicate

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Speaker 1: when I've got so many. But I do think that

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Speaker 1: writing take notices up on the wall about the boys

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Speaker 1: and girls is the silliest ever. I should just like

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Speaker 1: to see anybody dare to write my name up with

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Speaker 1: the boys. Not, of course, she hastened to add that

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Speaker 1: anybody would. Anne sighed she didn't want her name written up,

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Speaker 1: but it was a little humiliating to know that there

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Speaker 1: was no danger of it. Nonsense, says Diana, whose black

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Speaker 1: eyes and glossy tresses have played such havoc with the

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Speaker 1: hearts of the Avonlea schoolboys that her name figured on

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Speaker 1: only meant as a joke. And don't you be too

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Speaker 1: sure your name won't ever be written up. Charlie Sloane

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Speaker 1: is dead gone on you. He told his mother, his mother,

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Speaker 1: That's better than being good looking. No, it isn't, said Anne,

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Speaker 1: and I hate Charlie Sloane. I can't bear a boy

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Speaker 1: with google eyes. If anyone wrote my name up with his,

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Speaker 1: I'd never get over it, Diana Barry. But it is

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Speaker 1: in your class after this, said Diana. And he's used

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Speaker 1: Four years ago, his father was sick and had to

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Speaker 1: go to school hardly any until they came back. You

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Speaker 1: after this, Anne, I'm glad, said Anne quickly. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: girls of just nine or ten. When mister Phillips was

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Speaker 1: see if you don't think he's handsome. Anne looked accordingly.

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Speaker 1: said Gilbert Blythe was absorbed in stealthily pinning the long

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Speaker 1: tall boy with curly brown hair, roguish hazel eyes, and

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Speaker 1: oblivious not only of the very existence of Gilbert Blythe,

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Speaker 1: nothing save her own wonderful visions. Gilbert Blythe wasn't used

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Speaker 1: meeting with failure, she should look at him, that red haired,

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Speaker 1: at arm's length, and said, in a piercing whisper, Carrots, Carrots.

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Speaker 1: Then Anne looked at him with a vengeance. She did

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Speaker 1: more than look. She sprang to her beat, her bright

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Speaker 1: how dare you? And then whack. Anne had brought her

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Speaker 1: head clear across. Mister Phillips stalked down the aisle and

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Speaker 1: laid his hand heavily on Anne's shoulder. Anne, Shirley, what

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Speaker 1: does this mean? He said angrily. Anne returned no answer.

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Speaker 1: she had been called carrots. Gilbert, it was who spoke

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Speaker 1: up stoutly. It was my fault, mister Phillips, I teased her.

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Speaker 1: Mister Phillips paid no heed to Gilbert. I am sorry

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Speaker 1: to see a pupil of mine displaying such a temper

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Speaker 1: and such a vindictive spirit, he said, in a serious tone,

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Speaker 1: his ought to root out all evil passions from the

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Speaker 1: hearts of small, imperfect mortals. And go and stand on

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Speaker 1: the platform in front of the blackboard for the rest

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Speaker 1: She would never speak to him. When school was dismissed,

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Speaker 1: Anne marched out with her red head held high. Gilbert

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Speaker 1: awfully sorry I made fun of your hair, Anne, he whispered, contritely. Honest,

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Speaker 1: I am don't be mad for keeps now. Anne swept

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Speaker 1: by disdainfully, without look or sign of hearing. Oh how

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Speaker 1: could you, Anne, breathed Diana. As they went down the road,

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Speaker 1: half reproachfully, half admiringly. Diana felt that she could never

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Speaker 1: have resisted Gilbert's plea. I shall never forgive Gilbert Blythe,

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Speaker 1: said Anne firmly. Oh you mustn't mind Gilbert making fun

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Speaker 1: of your hair, she said, soothingly. Why he makes fun

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Speaker 1: so black. He called me a crow a dozen times,

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Speaker 1: and I've never heard him apologize for anything before either.

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Speaker 1: There's a great deal of difference between being called a

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Speaker 1: crow and being called carrots, said Anne with dignity. Gilbert

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Speaker 1: Blythe has hurt my feelings excruciatingly, Diana. On the following day,

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Speaker 1: mister Phillips was seized with one of his spasmodic fits

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Speaker 1: of reform, and announced, before going home to lunch, that

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Speaker 1: he should expect to find all the students in their

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Speaker 1: seats when he returned. Anyone who came in late would

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Speaker 1: went to mister Bell's spruce grove as usual, fully intending

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Speaker 1: They picked and loitered and strayed, and as usual, the

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Speaker 1: first thing that recalled them to a sense of the

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Speaker 1: latest of all. Anne could run like a deer. However,

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Speaker 1: run she did, with the impish result that she overtook

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Speaker 1: schoolhouse among them, just as mister Phillips was in the

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Speaker 1: act of hanging up his hat. Mister phillips brief reforming

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Speaker 1: rakish and di disheveled appearance. Anne, Surely, since you seem

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Speaker 1: indulge your taste for it this afternoon, he said, sarcastically,

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Speaker 1: Gilbert blythe The other boy snickered. Diana, turning pale with pity,

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Speaker 1: plucked the wreath from Anne's hair and squeezed her hand.

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Speaker 1: Anne stared at the master as if turned to stone.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said? Anne asked mister Phillips sternly. Yes, Sir,

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Speaker 1: said Anne slowly. But I didn't suppose you really meant it.

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Speaker 1: I assure you I did. Still, with the sarcastic inflection,

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Speaker 1: which all the children and Anne, Anne especially hated, it

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Speaker 1: flicked on the raw obey me at once. For a moment,

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Speaker 1: Anne looked as if she meant to disobey, Then, realizing

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Speaker 1: stepped across the aisle, sat down beside Gilbert Blythe and

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Speaker 1: buried her face in her arms on the desk. To Anne,

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Speaker 1: this was as the end of all things. It was

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Speaker 1: bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among

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Speaker 1: a dozen equally guilty ones. It was worse still to

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Speaker 1: be sent to sit with a boy, but that that

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Speaker 1: boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury

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Speaker 1: to a degree utterly unbearable. Anne felt that she could

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Speaker 1: and humiliation. When school went out, Anne marched to her desk,

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Speaker 1: took everything from out books and writing tablet, pen and ink,

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Speaker 1: What are you taking all those things home for, Anne,

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Speaker 1: Diana wanted to know. As soon as they were out

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Speaker 1: question before. I am not coming back to school any more,

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Speaker 1: said Anne. Diana gasped and stared at Anne to see

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Speaker 1: if she meant it. Will Marilla let you stay home,

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Speaker 1: she asked. She will have to, said Anne. I'll never

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Speaker 1: go to school to that man again. And that is

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Speaker 1: the end. Of this part of the story. Good Night,

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Speaker 1: sleep Tight,