Davy dear , do n't sail the peapods in the water bucket ... go out to the trough . Oh , I do hope it will be fine Thursday , and I think it will , for Uncle Abe said last night when he called at Mr. Harrison 's , that it was going to rain most of this week . '' `` That 's a good sign , '' agreed Marilla . Anne ran across to Orchard Slope that evening to tell the news to Diana , who was also very much excited over it , and they discussed the matter in the hammock swung under the big willow in the Barry garden . `` Oh , Anne , may n't I help you cook the dinner ? '' implored Diana . `` You know I can make splendid lettuce salad . '' `` Indeed you , may '' said Anne unselfishly . `` And I shall want you to help me decorate too . I mean to have the parlor simply a BOWER of blossoms ... and the dining table is to be adorned with wild roses . Oh , I do hope everything will go smoothly . Mrs. Morgan 's heroines NEVER get into scrapes or are taken at a disadvantage , and they are always so selfpossessed and such good housekeepers . They seem to be BORN good housekeepers . You remember that Gertrude in ` Edgewood Days ' kept house for her father when she was only eight years old . When I was eight years old I hardly knew how to do a thing except bring up children . Mrs. Morgan must be an authority on girls when she has written so much about them , and I do want her to have a good opinion of us . I 've imagined it all out a dozen different ways ... what she 'll look like , and what she 'll say , and what I 'll say . And I 'm so anxious about my nose . There are seven freckles on it , as you can see . They came at the A.V.I S. picnic , when I went around in the sun without my hat .
I suppose it 's ungrateful XXXXX me to worry over them , when I should be thankful they 're not spread all over my face as they once were ; but I do wish they had n't come ... all Mrs. Morgan 's heroines have such perfect complexions .
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