`` Try a little lemon juice on them tonight . '' The next day Anne made her pies and lady fingers , did up her muslin dress , and swept and dusted every room in the house ... a quite unnecessary proceeding , for Green Gables was , as usual , in the apple pie order dear to Marilla 's heart . But Anne felt that a fleck of dust would be a desecration in a house that was to be honored by a visit from Charlotte E. Morgan . She even cleaned out the `` catch-all '' closet under the stairs , although there was not the remotest possibility of Mrs. Morgan 's seeing its interior . `` But I want to FEEL that it is in perfect order , even if she is n't to see it , '' Anne told Marilla . `` You know , in her book ` Golden Keys , ' she makes her two heroines Alice and Louisa take for their motto that verse of Longfellow 's , ` In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part , For the gods see everywhere , ' and so they always kept their cellar stairs scrubbed and never forgot to sweep under the beds . I should have a guilty conscience if I thought this closet was in disorder when Mrs. Morgan was in the house . Ever since we read ` Golden Keys , ' last April , Diana and I have taken that verse for our motto too . '' That night John Henry Carter and Davy between them contrived to execute the two white roosters , and Anne dressed them , the usually distasteful task glorified in her eyes by the destination of the plump birds . `` I do n't like picking fowls , '' she told Marilla , `` but is n't it fortunate we do n't have to put our souls into what our hands may be doing ? I 've been picking chickens with my hands but in imagination I 've been roaming the Milky Way . '' `` I thought you 'd scattered more feathers over the floor than usual , '' remarked Marilla . Then Anne put Davy to bed and made him promise that he would behave perfectly the next day . `` If I 'm as good as good can be all day tomorrow will you let me be just as bad as I like all the next day ? '' asked Davy . `` I could n't do that , '' said Anne discreetly , `` but I 'll take you and Dora for a row in the flat right to the bottom of the pond , and we 'll go ashore on the sandhills and have a picnic . '' `` It 's a bargain , '' said Davy . `` I 'll be good , you bet . I meant to go over to Mr. Harrison 's and fire peas from my new popgun at Ginger but another day 'll do as well . I espect it will be just like Sunday , but a picnic at the shore 'll make up for THAT . ''
XVII A Chapter of Accidents XXXXX woke three times in the night and made pilgrimages to her window to make sure that Uncle Abe 's prediction was not coming true .
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