They 're always laughing . Even in winter-time I 've heard them under the ice . I 'm so glad there 's a brook near Green Gables . Perhaps you think it does n't make any difference to me when you 're not going to keep me , but it does . I shall always like to remember that there is a brook at Green Gables even if I never see it again . If there was n't a brook I 'd be HAUNTED by the uncomfortable feeling that there ought to be one . I 'm not in the depths of despair this morning . I never can be in the morning . Is n't it a splendid thing that there are mornings ? But I feel very sad . I 've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever . It was a great comfort while it lasted . But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts . '' `` You 'd better get dressed and come down-stairs and never mind your imaginings , '' said Marilla as soon as she could get a word in edgewise . `` Breakfast is waiting . Wash your face and comb your hair . Leave the window up and turn your bedclothes back over the foot of the bed . Be as smart as you can . '' Anne could evidently be smart to some purpose for she was down-stairs in ten minutes ' time , with her clothes neatly on , her hair brushed and braided , her face washed , and a comfortable consciousness pervading her soul that she had fulfilled all Marilla 's requirements . As a matter of fact , however , she had forgotten to turn back the bedclothes .
`` I 'm pretty hungry this morning , '' she announced XXXXX she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her .
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