I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves . I ca n't bear Josie or Gertie for names now but before I knew the Pye girls I thought them real pretty . '' `` That 's a lovely idea , Diana , '' said Anne enthusiastically . `` Living so that you beautify your name , even if it was n't beautiful to begin with ... making it stand in people 's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself . Thank you , Diana . '' XXII Odds and Ends `` So you had tea at the stone house with Lavendar Lewis ? '' said Marilla at the breakfast table next morning . `` What is she like now ? It 's over fifteen years since I saw her last ... it was one Sunday in Grafton church . I suppose she has changed a great deal . Davy Keith , when you want something you ca n't reach , ask to have it passed and do n't spread yourself over the table in that fashion . Did you ever see Paul Irving doing that when he was here to meals ? '' `` But Paul 's arms are longer 'n mine , '' brumbled Davy . `` They 've had eleven years to grow and mine 've only had seven . ` Sides , I DID ask , but you and Anne was so busy talking you did n't pay any ` tention . ` Sides , Paul 's never been here to any meal escept tea , and it 's easier to be p ` lite at tea than at breakfast . You ai n't half as hungry . It 's an awful long while between supper and breakfast . Now , Anne , that spoonful ai n't any bigger than it was last year and I 'M ever so much bigger . '' `` Of course , I do n't know what Miss Lavendar used to look like but I do n't fancy somehow that she has changed a great deal , '' said Anne , after she had helped Davy to maple syrup , giving him two spoonfuls to pacify him .
`` Her hair is snow-white but her face is fresh and almost girlish , and she has the sweetest brown eyes ... such a pretty shade of wood-brown XXXXX little golden glints in them ... and her voice makes you think of white satin and tinkling water and fairy bells all mixed up together . ''
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