So he said as shyly as usual : `` Oh , you can talk as much as you like . I do n't mind . '' `` Oh , I 'm so glad . I know you and I are going to get along together fine . It 's such a relief to talk when one wants to and not be told that children should be seen and not heard . I 've had that said to me a million times if I have once . And people laugh at me because I use big words . But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them , have n't you ? '' `` Well now , that seems reasonable , '' said Matthew . `` Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle . But it is n't -- it 's firmly fastened at one end . Mrs. Spencer said your place was named Green Gables . I asked her all about it . And she said there were trees all around it . I was gladder than ever . I just love trees . And there were n't any at all about the asylum , only a few poor weeny-teeny things out in front with little whitewashed cagey things about them . They just looked like orphans themselves , those trees did . It used to make me want to cry to look at them . I used to say to them , ` Oh , you POOR little things !
If you were out XXXXX a great big woods with other trees all around you and little mosses and Junebells growing over your roots and a brook not far away and birds singing in you branches , you could grow , could n't you ?
So around as at if in like than that to