`` Oh , I 'm not so old as I thought ... and I do n't need a single blue pill ! Girls , when you come back with your strawberries we 'll have tea out here under the silver poplar . I 'll have it all ready for you with home-grown cream . '' Anne and Charlotta the Fourth accordingly betook themselves back to Mr. Kimball 's pasture , a green remote place where the air was as soft as velvet and fragrant as a bed of violets and golden as amber . `` Oh , is n't it sweet and fresh back here ? '' breathed Anne . `` I just feel as if I were drinking in the sunshine . '' `` Yes , ma'am , so do I. That 's just exactly how I feel too , ma'am , '' agreed Charlotta the Fourth , who would have said precisely the same thing if Anne had remarked that she felt like a pelican of the wilderness . Always after Anne had visited Echo Lodge Charlotta the Fourth mounted to her little room over the kitchen and tried before her looking glass to speak and look and move like Anne . Charlotta could never flatter herself that she quite succeeded ; but practice makes perfect , as Charlotta had learned at school , and she fondly hoped that in time she might catch the trick of that dainty uplift of chin , that quick , starry outflashing of eyes , that fashion of walking as if you were a bough swaying in the wind . It seemed so easy when you watched Anne . Charlotta the Fourth admired Anne wholeheartedly . It was not that she thought her so very handsome . Diana Barry 's beauty of crimson cheek and black curls was much more to Charlotta the Fourth 's taste than Anne 's moonshine charm of luminous gray eyes and the pale , everchanging roses of her cheeks . `` But I 'd rather look like you than be pretty , '' she told Anne sincerely . Anne laughed , sipped the honey from the tribute , and cast away the sting . She was used to taking her compliments mixed . Public opinion never agreed on Anne 's looks . People who had heard her called handsome met her and were disappointed . People who had heard her called plain saw her and wondered where other people 's eyes were .
Anne herself would never believe XXXXX she had any claim to beauty .
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