`` I prayed for one , but I did n't much expect it on that account . I did n't suppose God would have time to bother about a little orphan girl 's dress . I knew I 'd just have to depend on Marilla for it . Well , fortunately I can imagine that one of them is of snow-white muslin with lovely lace frills and three-puffed sleeves . '' The next morning warnings of a sick headache prevented Marilla from going to Sunday-school with Anne . `` You 'll have to go down and call for Mrs. Lynde , Anne , '' she said . `` She 'll see that you get into the right class . Now , mind you behave yourself properly . Stay to preaching afterwards and ask Mrs. Lynde to show you our pew . Here 's a cent for collection . Do n't stare at people and do n't fidget . I shall expect you to tell me the text when you come home . '' Anne started off irreproachable , arrayed in the stiff black-and-white sateen , which , while decent as regards length and certainly not open to the charge of skimpiness , contrived to emphasize every corner and angle of her thin figure . Her hat was a little , flat , glossy , new sailor , the extreme plainness of which had likewise much disappointed Anne , who had permitted herself secret visions of ribbon and flowers . The latter , however , were supplied before Anne reached the main road , for being confronted halfway down the lane with a golden frenzy of wind-stirred buttercups and a glory of wild roses , Anne promptly and liberally garlanded her hat with a heavy wreath of them . Whatever other people might have thought of the result it satisfied Anne , and she tripped gaily down the road , holding her ruddy head with its decoration of pink and yellow very proudly . When she had reached Mrs. Lynde 's house she found that lady gone . Nothing daunted , Anne proceeded onward to the church alone . In the porch she found a crowd of little girls , all more or less gaily attired in whites and blues and pinks , and all staring with curious eyes at this stranger in their midst , with her extraordinary head adornment . Avonlea little girls had already heard queer stories about Anne .
Mrs. Lynde said she had an awful temper ; Jerry Buote , the hired boy XXXXX Green Gables , said she talked all the time to herself or to the trees and flowers like a crazy girl .
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