I want to know ? '' `` I daresay it will , '' said Anne gravely . `` You ARE a handsome boy , Davy , '' ... Marilla looked volumes of disapproval ... `` but you must live up to it and be just as nice and gentlemanly as you look to be . '' `` And you told Minnie May Barry the other day , when you found her crying 'cause some one said she was ugly , that if she was nice and kind and loving people would n't mind her looks , '' said Davy discontentedly . `` Seems to me you ca n't get out of being good in this world for some reason or ` nother . You just HAVE to behave . '' `` Do n't you want to be good ? '' asked Marilla , who had learned a great deal but had not yet learned the futility of asking such questions . `` Yes , I want to be good but not TOO good , '' said Davy cautiously . `` You do n't have to be very good to be a Sunday School superintendent . Mr. Bell 's that , and he 's a real bad man . '' `` Indeed he 's not , '' said Marila indignantly . `` He is ... he says he is himself , '' asseverated Davy . `` He said it when he prayed in Sunday School last Sunday . He said he was a vile worm and a miserable sinner and guilty of the blackest ` niquity . What did he do that was so bad , Marilla ? Did he kill anybody ? Or steal the collection cents ? I want to know . '' Fortunately Mrs. Lynde came driving up the lane at this moment and Marilla made off , feeling that she had escaped from the snare of the fowler , and wishing devoutly that Mr. Bell were not quite so highly figurative in his public petitions , especially in the hearing of small boys who were always `` wanting to know . ''
Anne , left alone XXXXX her glory , worked with a will .
Barry Davy as at from in niquity of that to