`` 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 for you to stop talking if you 've got anybody that will listen to you . So go up to your room and learn it . '' `` Oh , I know it pretty nearly all now -- all but just the last line . '' `` Well , never mind , do as I tell you . Go to your room and finish learning it well , and stay there until I call you down to help me get tea . '' `` Can I take the apple blossoms with me for company ? '' pleaded Anne . `` No ; you do n't want your room cluttered up with flowers . You should have left them on the tree in the first place . '' `` I did feel a little that way , too , '' said Anne .
`` I kind of felt I should n't shorten their lovely lives by picking them -- I would n't want XXXXX be picked if I were an apple blossom .
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