I just put my whole soul into it . Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line , ` Now for my father 's arm , ' she said , ` my woman 's heart farewell , ' just made her blood run cold . '' `` Well now , you might recite it for me some of these days , out in the barn , '' suggested Matthew . `` Of course I will , '' said Anne meditatively , `` but I wo n't be able to do it so well , I know . It wo n't be so exciting as it is when you have a whole schoolful before you hanging breathlessly on your words . I know I wo n't be able to make your blood run cold . '' `` Mrs. Lynde says it made HER blood run cold to see the boys climbing to the very tops of those big trees on Bell 's hill after crows ' nests last Friday , '' said Marilla . `` I wonder at Miss Stacy for encouraging it . '' `` But we wanted a crow 's nest for nature study , '' explained Anne . `` That was on our field afternoon . Field afternoons are splendid , Marilla . And Miss Stacy explains everything so beautifully . We have to write compositions on our field afternoons and I write the best ones . '' `` It 's very vain of you to say so then . You 'd better let your teacher say it . '' `` But she DID say it , Marilla . And indeed I 'm not vain about it . How can I be , when I 'm such a dunce at geometry ? Although I 'm really beginning to see through it a little , too . Miss Stacy makes it so clear .
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