Be as smart as you can . '' Anne could evidently be smart to some purpose for she was down-stairs in ten minutes ' time , with her clothes neatly on , her hair brushed and braided , her face washed , and a comfortable consciousness pervading her soul that she had fulfilled all Marilla 's requirements . As a matter of fact , however , she had forgotten to turn back the bedclothes . `` I 'm pretty hungry this morning , '' she announced as she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her . `` The world does n't seem such a howling wilderness as it did last night . I 'm so glad it 's a sunshiny morning . But I like rainy mornings real well , too . All sorts of mornings are interesting , do n't you think ? You do n't know what 's going to happen through the day , and there 's so much scope for imagination . But I 'm glad it 's not rainy today because it 's easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day . I feel that I have a good deal to bear up under . It 's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically , but it 's not so nice when you really come to have them , is it ? '' `` For pity 's sake hold your tongue , '' said Marilla . `` You talk entirely too much for a little girl . '' Thereupon Anne held her tongue so obediently and thoroughly that her continued silence made Marilla rather nervous , as if in the presence of something not exactly natural . Matthew also held his tongue , -- but this was natural , -- so that the meal was a very silent one . As it progressed Anne became more and more abstracted , eating mechanically , with her big eyes fixed unswervingly and unseeingly on the sky outside the window . This made Marilla more nervous than ever ; she had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child 's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland , borne aloft on the wings of imagination . Who would want such a child about the place ? Yet Matthew wished to keep her , of all unaccountable things !
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