`` Well , you 'd better go and give that cake to the pigs , '' said Marilla . `` It is n't fit for any human to eat , not even Jerry Boute . '' CHAPTER XXII . Anne is Invited Out to Tea `` And what are your eyes popping out of your head about . Now ? '' asked Marilla , when Anne had just come in from a run to the post office . `` Have you discovered another kindred spirit ? '' Excitement hung around Anne like a garment , shone in her eyes , kindled in every feature . She had come dancing up the lane , like a wind-blown sprite , through the mellow sunshine and lazy shadows of the August evening . `` No , Marilla , but oh , what do you think ? I am invited to tea at the manse tomorrow afternoon ! Mrs. Allan left the letter for me at the post office . Just look at it , Marilla . ` Miss Anne Shirley , Green Gables . ' That is the first time I was ever called ` Miss. ' Such a thrill as it gave me ! I shall cherish it forever among my choicest treasures . '' `` Mrs. Allan told me she meant to have all the members of her Sunday-school class to tea in turn , '' said Marilla , regarding the wonderful event very coolly . `` You need n't get in such a fever over it . Do learn to take things calmly , child . '' For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature .
All `` spirit and fire and dew , '' XXXXX she was , the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity .
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