But that brief dream is over . I am resigned to my fate now , so I do n't think I 'll go out for fear I 'll get unresigned again . What is the name of that geranium on the window-sill , please ? '' `` That 's the apple-scented geranium . '' `` Oh , I do n't mean that sort of a name . I mean just a name you gave it yourself . Did n't you give it a name ? May I give it one then ? May I call it -- let me see -- Bonny would do -- may I call it Bonny while I 'm here ? Oh , do let me ! '' `` Goodness , I do n't care . But where on earth is the sense of naming a geranium ? '' `` Oh , I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums . It makes them seem more like people . How do you know but that it hurts a geranium 's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else ? You would n't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time . Yes , I shall call it Bonny . I named that cherry-tree outside my bedroom window this morning . I called it Snow Queen because it was so white . Of course , it wo n't always be in blossom , but one can imagine that it is , ca n't one ? ''
`` I never XXXXX all my life saw or heard anything to equal her , '' muttered Marilla , beating a retreat down to the cellar after potatoes .
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