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Ing the rest with accounts of her own harrowing experiences with her
numerous admirers. It was a silly, harmless letter, and Anne would have
laughed over it had it not been for the postscript. "Gilbert seems to be
enjoying Redmond, judging from his letters," wrote Ruby. "I don't think
Charlie is so stuck on it." So Gilbert was writing to Ruby! Very well.
He had a perfect right to, of course. Only--!! Anne did not know that
Ruby had written the first letter and that Gilbert had answered it from
mere courtesy. She tossed Ruby's letter aside contemptuously. But it
took all Diana's breezy, newsy, delightful epistle to banish the sting
of Ruby's postscript. Diana's letter contained a little too much Fred,
but was otherwise crowded and crossed with items of interest, and Anne
almost felt herself back in Avonlea while reading it. Marilla's was a
rather prim and colorless epistle, severely innocent of gossip or
emotion. Yet somehow it conveyed to Anne a whiff of the wholesome,
simple life at Green Gables, with its savor of ancient peace, and the
steadfast abiding love that was the