I 'll set your tea out for you and I 'll be home in time to milk the cows . '' Still Matthew said nothing and Marilla had a sense of having wasted words and breath . There is nothing more aggravating than a man who wo n't talk back -- unless it is a woman who wo n't . Matthew hitched the sorrel into the buggy in due time and Marilla and Anne set off . Matthew opened the yard gate for them and as they drove slowly through , he said , to nobody in particular as it seemed : `` Little Jerry Buote from the Creek was here this morning , and I told him I guessed I 'd hire him for the summer . '' Marilla made no reply , but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare , unused to such treatment , whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace . Marilla looked back once as the buggy bounced along and saw that aggravating Matthew leaning over the gate , looking wistfully after them . CHAPTER V. Anne 's History `` Do you know , '' said Anne confidentially , `` I 've made up my mind to enjoy this drive . It 's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will . Of course , you must make it up FIRMLY . I am not going to think about going back to the asylum while we 're having our drive . I 'm just going to think about the drive . Oh , look , there 's one little early wild rose out ! Is n't it lovely ? Do n't you think it must be glad to be a rose ? Would n't it be nice if roses could talk ? I 'm sure they could tell us such lovely things . And is n't pink the most bewitching color in the world ? I love it , but I ca n't wear it . Redheaded people ca n't wear pink , not even in imagination .
Did you ever know XXXXX anybody whose hair was red when she was young , but got to be another color when she grew up ? ''
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