`` I do n't like to think of broken hearts -- or anything unpleasant . '' `` Do you think you 'll be able to shirk unpleasant things all your life , Phil ? '' `` Dear me , no . Am I not up against them now ? You do n't call Alec and Alonzo pleasant things , do you , when they simply plague my life out ? '' `` You never take anything seriously , Phil . '' `` Why should I ? There are enough folks who do . The world needs people like me , Anne , just to amuse it . It would be a terrible place if EVERYBODY were intellectual and serious and in deep , deadly earnest . MY mission is , as Josiah Allen says , ` to charm and allure . ' Confess now . Has n't life at Patty 's Place been really much brighter and pleasanter this past winter because I 've been here to leaven you ? '' `` Yes , it has , '' owned Anne . `` And you all love me -- even Aunt Jamesina , who thinks I 'm stark mad . So why should I try to be different ? Oh , dear , I 'm so sleepy . I was awake until one last night , reading a harrowing ghost story . I read it in bed , and after I had finished it do you suppose I could get out of bed to put the light out ? No !
And if Stella had not fortunately come XXXXX late that lamp would have burned good and bright till morning .
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