said Marilla at the breakfast table next morning . `` What is she like now ? It 's over fifteen years since I saw her last ... it was one Sunday in Grafton church . I suppose she has changed a great deal . Davy Keith , when you want something you ca n't reach , ask to have it passed and do n't spread yourself over the table in that fashion . Did you ever see Paul Irving doing that when he was here to meals ? '' `` But Paul 's arms are longer 'n mine , '' brumbled Davy . `` They 've had eleven years to grow and mine 've only had seven . ` Sides , I DID ask , but you and Anne was so busy talking you did n't pay any ` tention . ` Sides , Paul 's never been here to any meal escept tea , and it 's easier to be p ` lite at tea than at breakfast . You ai n't half as hungry . It 's an awful long while between supper and breakfast . Now , Anne , that spoonful ai n't any bigger than it was last year and I 'M ever so much bigger . '' `` Of course , I do n't know what Miss Lavendar used to look like but I do n't fancy somehow that she has changed a great deal , '' said Anne , after she had helped Davy to maple syrup , giving him two spoonfuls to pacify him . `` Her hair is snow-white but her face is fresh and almost girlish , and she has the sweetest brown eyes ... such a pretty shade of wood-brown with little golden glints in them ... and her voice makes you think of white satin and tinkling water and fairy bells all mixed up together . '' `` She was reckoned a great beauty when she was a girl , '' said Marilla . `` I never knew her very well but I liked her as far as I did know her . Some folks thought her peculiar even then . DAVY , if ever I catch you at such a trick again you 'll be made to wait for your meals till everyone else is done , like the French . '' Most conversations between Anne and Marilla in the presence of the twins , were punctuated by these rebukes Davy-ward .
In this instance , Davy , sad to relate , not being able to scoop up the last drops of his syrup XXXXX his spoon , had solved the difficulty by lifting his plate in both hands and applying his small pink tongue to it .
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