I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl 's life . I 'm going to make them perfectly splendid -- just fill them with fun . '' `` There 's no use thinking about what you 're going to do -- you are tolerably sure not to do it . '' `` Oh , but you do get a lot of fun out of the thinking , '' cried Rilla . `` You think of nothing but fun , you monkey , '' said Miss Oliver indulgently , reflecting that Rilla 's chin was really the last word in chins . `` Well , what else is fifteen for ? But have you any notion of going to college this fall ? '' `` No -- nor any other fall . I do n't want to . I never cared for all those ologies and isms Nan and Di are so crazy about . And there 's five of us going to college already . Surely that 's enough . There 's bound to be one dunce in every family . I 'm quite willing to be a dunce if I can be a pretty , popular , delightful one . I ca n't be clever . I have no talent at all , and you ca n't imagine how comfortable it is . Nobody expects me to do anything so I 'm never pestered to do it . And I ca n't be a housewifely , cookly creature , either . I hate sewing and dusting , and when Susan could n't teach me to make biscuits nobody could . Father says I toil not neither do I spin .
Therefore , I must be a lily of the field , '' concluded XXXXX , with another laugh .
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