The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: see those tears.
"But, oh, Marilla, I really felt that I had tasted the bitterness
of death, as Mr. Allan said in his sermon last Sunday, when I
saw Diana go out alone," she said mournfully that night. "I
thought how splendid it would have been if Diana had only been
going to study for the Entrance, too. But we can't have things
perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde
isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no
doubt she says a great many very true things. And I think the
Queen's class is going to be extremely interesting. Jane and
Ruby are just going to study to be teachers. That is the height
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