She is so heedless and impulsive . '' `` Just like me . I 'm going to like your Faith , '' said Anne decidedly . `` She is full of spunk -- and I do like spunk , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' admitted Susan . `` There 's something taking about her , '' conceded Miss Cornelia . `` You never see her but she 's laughing , and somehow it always makes you want to laugh too . She ca n't even keep a straight face in church . Una is ten -- she 's a sweet little thing -- not pretty , but sweet . And Thomas Carlyle is nine . They call him Carl , and he has a regular mania for collecting toads and bugs and frogs and bringing them into the house . '' `` I suppose he was responsible for the dead rat that was lying on a chair in the parlour the afternoon Mrs. Grant called . It gave her a turn , '' said Susan , `` and I do not wonder , for manse parlours are no places for dead rats . To be sure it may have been the cat who left it , there . HE is as full of the old Nick as he can be stuffed , Mrs. Dr. dear . A manse cat should at least LOOK respectable , in my opinion , whatever he really is . But I never saw such a rakish-looking beast . And he walks along the ridgepole of the manse almost every evening at sunset , Mrs. Dr. dear , and waves his tail , and that is not becoming . '' `` The worst of it is , they are NEVER decently dressed , '' sighed Miss Cornelia . `` And since the snow went they go to school barefooted . Now , you know Anne dearie , that is n't the right thing for manse children -- especially when the Methodist minister 's little girl always wears such nice buttoned boots .
And I DO wish they would n't play XXXXX the old Methodist graveyard . ''
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