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was going home on the morning train; and it would be easier to be a carpenter than a minister anyhow. I cheered him up and persuaded him to stay to the end because it would be unfair to Miss Stacy if he didn’t. Sometimes I’ve wished I was born a boy but when I see Moody Spurgeon I’m always glad I’m a girl(begin strikethrough).(end strikethrough) and not his sister.

Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boarding-house; she had just discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper. When she recovered we went up-town and had an ice-cream. How we wished you had been with us.

Oh, Diana, if only the geometry examination were over! But then, (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)as Mrs. Lynde would say, (end superscript)the sun will go in [sic] rising and setting whether I fail in geometry or not.


TEXT ANNOTATION

"a fearful mistake": Ruby's mistake is perhaps based on an error of Montgomery's own. When she took her entrance exams to Prince of Wales College in July of 1893, she noted in her journal that "I finished [the English paper] in an hour and a half and feel sure I did pretty well. To be sure, I was frightfully provoked to discover, after I had come home, that I had simply overlooked the second division of the second question entirely—so maddening when I could have answered it in full" (July 18, 1893, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery, The PEI Years, Volume 2, 2012, p. 163).