Next time you write about a hero put a little spice of human nature in him . '' `` AVERIL could n't have married MAURICE . He was bad . '' `` She 'd have reformed him . You can reform a man ; you ca n't reform a jelly-fish , of course . Your story is n't bad -- it 's kind of interesting , I 'll admit . But you 're too young to write a story that would be worth while . Wait ten years . '' Anne made up her mind that the next time she wrote a story she would n't ask anybody to criticize it . It was too discouraging . She would not read the story to Gilbert , although she told him about it . `` If it is a success you 'll see it when it is published , Gilbert , but if it is a failure nobody shall ever see it . '' Marilla knew nothing about the venture . In imagination Anne saw herself reading a story out of a magazine to Marilla , entrapping her into praise of it -- for in imagination all things are possible -- and then triumphantly announcing herself the author . One day Anne took to the Post Office a long , bulky envelope , addressed , with the delightful confidence of youth and inexperience , to the very biggest of the `` big '' magazines . Diana was as excited over it as Anne herself . `` How long do you suppose it will be before you hear from it ? '' she asked . `` It should n't be longer than a fortnight . Oh , how happy and proud I shall be if it is accepted ! ''
`` Of course it will be XXXXX , and they will likely ask you to send them more .
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