But just up the river a little way from the house there was a long green little valley , and the loveliest echo lived there . It echoed back every word you said , even if you did n't talk a bit loud . So I imagined that it was a little girl called Violetta and we were great friends and I loved her almost as well as I loved Katie Maurice -- not quite , but almost , you know . The night before I went to the asylum I said good-bye to Violetta , and oh , her good-bye came back to me in such sad , sad tones . I had become so attached to her that I had n't the heart to imagine a bosom friend at the asylum , even if there had been any scope for imagination there . '' `` I think it 's just as well there was n't , '' said Marilla drily . `` I do n't approve of such goings-on . You seem to half believe your own imaginations . It will be well for you to have a real live friend to put such nonsense out of your head . But do n't let Mrs. Barry hear you talking about your Katie Maurices and your Violettas or she 'll think you tell stories . '' `` Oh , I wo n't . I could n't talk of them to everybody -- their memories are too sacred for that . But I thought I 'd like to have you know about them . Oh , look , here 's a big bee just tumbled out of an apple blossom . Just think what a lovely place to live -- in an apple blossom ! Fancy going to sleep in it when the wind was rocking it . If I was n't a human girl I think I 'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers . '' `` Yesterday you wanted to be a sea gull , '' sniffed Marilla . `` I think you are very fickle minded . I told you to learn that prayer and not talk .
But it seems impossible XXXXX you to stop talking if you 've got anybody that will listen to you .
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