` Miss Anne Shirley , Green Gables . ' That is the first time I was ever called ` Miss. ' Such a thrill as it gave me ! I shall cherish it forever among my choicest treasures . '' `` Mrs. Allan told me she meant to have all the members of her Sunday-school class to tea in turn , '' said Marilla , regarding the wonderful event very coolly . `` You need n't get in such a fever over it . Do learn to take things calmly , child . '' For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature . All `` spirit and fire and dew , '' as she was , the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity . Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it , realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate . Therefore Marilla conceived it to be her duty to drill Anne into a tranquil uniformity of disposition as impossible and alien to her as to a dancing sunbeam in one of the brook shallows . She did not make much headway , as she sorrowfully admitted to herself . The downfall of some dear hope or plan plunged Anne into `` deeps of affliction . '' The fulfillment thereof exalted her to dizzy realms of delight . Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment . Neither would she have believed that she really liked Anne much better as she was . Anne went to bed that night speechless with misery because Matthew had said the wind was round northeast and he feared it would be a rainy day tomorrow . The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her , it sounded so like pattering raindrops , and the full , faraway roar of the gulf , to which she listened delightedly at other times , loving its strange , sonorous , haunting rhythm , now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day . Anne thought that the morning would never come . But all things have an end , even nights before the day on which you are invited to take tea at the manse . The morning , in spite of Matthew 's predictions , was fine and Anne 's spirits soared to their highest .
`` Oh , Marilla , there is something in me today that makes me just love everybody I see , '' she exclaimed XXXXX she washed the breakfast dishes .
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