Have you ever noticed that ? '' `` Here is something for you to notice , Anne . When I tell you to do a thing I want you to obey me at once and not stand stock-still and discourse about it . Just you go and do as I bid you . '' Anne promptly departed for the sitting-room across the hall ; she failed to return ; after waiting ten minutes Marilla laid down her knitting and marched after her with a grim expression . She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows , with her eyes astar with dreams . The white and green light strained through apple trees and clustering vines outside fell over the rapt little figure with a half-unearthly radiance . `` Anne , whatever are you thinking of ? '' demanded Marilla sharply . Anne came back to earth with a start . `` That , '' she said , pointing to the picture -- a rather vivid chromo entitled , `` Christ Blessing Little Children '' -- `` and I was just imagining I was one of them -- that I was the little girl in the blue dress , standing off by herself in the corner as if she did n't belong to anybody , like me . She looks lonely and sad , do n't you think ? I guess she had n't any father or mother of her own . But she wanted to be blessed , too , so she just crept shyly up on the outside of the crowd , hoping nobody would notice her -- except Him . I 'm sure I know just how she felt . Her heart must have beat and her hands must have got cold , like mine did when I asked you if I could stay . She was afraid He might n't notice her . But it 's likely He did , do n't you think ? I 've been trying to imagine it all out -- her edging a little nearer all the time until she was quite close to Him ; and then He would look at her and put His hand on her hair and oh , such a thrill of joy as would run over her ! But I wish the artist had n't painted Him so sorrowful looking .
All His pictures are like that , XXXXX you 've noticed .
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