There 's such a lot of different Annes in me . I sometimes think that is why I 'm such a troublesome person . If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable , but then it would n't be half so interesting . '' One June evening , when the orchards were pink blossomed again , when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters , and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods , Anne was sitting by her gable window . She had been studying her lessons , but it had grown too dark to see the book , so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie , looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen , once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom . In all essential respects the little gable chamber was unchanged . The walls were as white , the pincushion as hard , the chairs as stiffly and yellowly upright as ever . Yet the whole character of the room was altered . It was full of a new vital , pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons , and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table . It was as if all the dreams , sleeping and waking , of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine . Presently Marilla came briskly in with some of Anne 's freshly ironed school aprons . She hung them over a chair and sat down with a short sigh . She had had one of her headaches that afternoon , and although the pain had gone she felt weak and `` tuckered out , '' as she expressed it . Anne looked at her with eyes limpid with sympathy . `` I do truly wish I could have had the headache in your place , Marilla . I would have endured it joyfully for your sake . '' `` I guess you did your part in attending to the work and letting me rest , '' said Marilla . `` You seem to have got on fairly well and made fewer mistakes than usual . Of course it was n't exactly necessary to starch Matthew 's handkerchiefs ! And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp .
But that does n't seem XXXXX be your way evidently . ''
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