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Anne of Green Gables-Part41_L.Maud Montgomery(1874-1942)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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The Pass List Is Out

With the end of June came the close of the term and the close of



Miss Stacy's rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana walked home that

evening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs



bore convincingtestimony to the fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words

must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips's had been under



similar circumstances three years before. Diana looked back at the

schoolhouse from the foot of the spruce hill and sighed deeply.



"It does seem as if it was the end of everything, doesn't it?"

she said dismally.



"You oughtn't to feel half as badly as I do," said Anne, hunting

vainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief. "You'll be back again



next winter, but I suppose I've left the dear old school forever--

if I have good luck, that is."



"It won't be a bit the same. Miss Stacy won't be there, nor you

nor Jane nor Ruby probably. I shall have to sit all alone, for I



couldn't bear to have another deskmate after you. Oh, we have had

jolly times, haven't we, Anne? It's dreadful to think they're all over."



Two big tears rolled down by Diana's nose.

"If you would stop crying I could," said Anne imploringly. "Just



as soon as I put away my hanky I see you brimming up and that

starts me off again. As Mrs. Lynde says, `If you can't be cheerful,



be as cheerful as you can.' After all, I dare say I'll be back

next year. This is one of the times I KNOW I'm not going to pass.



They're getting alarmingly frequent."

"Why, you came out splendidly in the exams Miss Stacy gave."



"Yes, but those exams didn't make me nervous. When I think of

the real thing you can't imagine what a horrid cold fluttery



feeling comes round my heart. And then my number is thirteen and

Josie Pye says it's so unlucky. I am NOT superstitious and I know



it can make no difference. But still I wish it wasn't thirteen."

"I do wish I was going in with you," said Diana. "Wouldn't we



have a perfectlyelegant time? But I suppose you'll have to cram

in the evenings."



"No; Miss Stacy has made us promise not to open a book at all.

She says it would only tire and confuse us and we are to go out



walking and not think about the exams at all and go to bed early.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good



advice is apt to be, I think. Prissy Andrews told me that she

sat up half the night every night of her Entrance week and



crammed for dear life; and I had determined to sit up AT LEAST as

long as she did. It was so kind of your Aunt Josephine to ask me



to stay at Beechwood while I'm in town."

"You'll write to me while you're in, won't you?"



"I'll write Tuesday night and tell you how the first day goes,"

promised Anne.



"I'll be haunting the post office Wednesday," vowed Diana.

Anne went to town the following Monday and on Wednesday Diana



haunted the post office, as agreed, and got her letter.

"Dearest Diana" [wrote Anne],



"Here it is Tuesday night and I'm writing this in the library at

Beechwood. Last night I was horriblylonesome all alone in my



room and wished so much you were with me. I couldn't "cram"

because I'd promised Miss Stacy not to, but it was as hard to



keep from opening my history as it used to be to keep from

reading a story before my lessons were learned.



"This morning Miss Stacy came for me and we went to the Academy,

calling for Jane and Ruby and Josie on our way. Ruby asked me to



feel her hands and they were as cold as ice. Josie said I looked

as if I hadn't slept a wink and she didn't believe I was strong



enough to stand the grind of the teacher's course even if I did get

through. There are times and seasons even yet when I don't feel



that I've made any great headway in learning to like Josie Pye!

"When we reached the Academy there were scores of students there



from all over the Island. The first person we saw was Moody

Spurgeon sitting on the steps and muttering away to himself.



Jane asked him what on earth he was doing and he said he was

repeating the multiplication table over and over to steady his



nerves and for pity's sake not to interrupt him, because if he

stopped for a moment he got frightened and forgot everything he



ever knew, but the multiplication table kept all his facts firmly

in their proper place!



"When we were assigned to our rooms Miss Stacy had to leave us.

Jane and I sat together and Jane was so composed that I envied her.



No need of the multiplication table for good, steady,

sensible Jane! I wondered if I looked as I felt and






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