Mrs. Morgan 's heroines NEVER get into scrapes or are taken at a disadvantage , and they are always so selfpossessed and such good housekeepers . They seem to be BORN good housekeepers . You remember that Gertrude in ` Edgewood Days ' kept house for her father when she was only eight years old . When I was eight years old I hardly knew how to do a thing except bring up children . Mrs. Morgan must be an authority on girls when she has written so much about them , and I do want her to have a good opinion of us . I 've imagined it all out a dozen different ways ... what she 'll look like , and what she 'll say , and what I 'll say . And I 'm so anxious about my nose . There are seven freckles on it , as you can see . They came at the A.V.I S. picnic , when I went around in the sun without my hat . I suppose it 's ungrateful of me to worry over them , when I should be thankful they 're not spread all over my face as they once were ; but I do wish they had n't come ... all Mrs. Morgan 's heroines have such perfect complexions . I ca n't recall a freckled one among them . '' `` Yours are not very noticeable , '' comforted Diana . `` Try a little lemon juice on them tonight . '' The next day Anne made her pies and lady fingers , did up her muslin dress , and swept and dusted every room in the house ... a quite unnecessary proceeding , for Green Gables was , as usual , in the apple pie order dear to Marilla 's heart . But Anne felt that a fleck of dust would be a desecration in a house that was to be honored by a visit from Charlotte E. Morgan . She even cleaned out the `` catch-all '' closet under the stairs , although there was not the remotest possibility of Mrs. Morgan 's seeing its interior . `` But I want to FEEL that it is in perfect order , even if she is n't to see it , '' Anne told Marilla . `` You know , in her book ` Golden Keys , ' she makes her two heroines Alice and Louisa take for their motto that verse of Longfellow 's , ` In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part , For the gods see everywhere , ' and so they always kept their cellar stairs scrubbed and never forgot to sweep under the beds . I should have a guilty conscience if I thought this closet was in disorder when Mrs. Morgan was in the house . Ever since we read ` Golden Keys , ' last April , Diana and I have taken that verse for our motto too . ''
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