We have to write compositions on our field afternoons and I write the best ones . '' `` It 's very vain of you to say so then . You 'd better let your teacher say it . '' `` But she DID say it , Marilla . And indeed I 'm not vain about it . How can I be , when I 'm such a dunce at geometry ? Although I 'm really beginning to see through it a little , too . Miss Stacy makes it so clear . Still , I 'll never be good at it and I assure you it is a humbling reflection . But I love writing compositions . Mostly Miss Stacy lets us choose our own subjects ; but next week we are to write a composition on some remarkable person . It 's hard to choose among so many remarkable people who have lived . Must n't it be splendid to be remarkable and have compositions written about you after you 're dead ? Oh , I would dearly love to be remarkable . I think when I grow up I 'll be a trained nurse and go with the Red Crosses to the field of battle as a messenger of mercy . That is , if I do n't go out as a foreign missionary . That would be very romantic , but one would have to be very good to be a missionary , and that would be a stumbling block . We have physical culture exercises every day , too . They make you graceful and promote digestion . '' `` Promote fiddlesticks ! ''
said XXXXX , who honestly thought it was all nonsense .
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