In all essential respects the little gable chamber was unchanged . The walls were as white , the pincushion as hard , the chairs as stiffly and yellowly upright as ever . Yet the whole character of the room was altered . It was full of a new vital , pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons , and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table . It was as if all the dreams , sleeping and waking , of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine . Presently Marilla came briskly in with some of Anne 's freshly ironed school aprons . She hung them over a chair and sat down with a short sigh . She had had one of her headaches that afternoon , and although the pain had gone she felt weak and `` tuckered out , '' as she expressed it . Anne looked at her with eyes limpid with sympathy . `` I do truly wish I could have had the headache in your place , Marilla . I would have endured it joyfully for your sake . '' `` I guess you did your part in attending to the work and letting me rest , '' said Marilla . `` You seem to have got on fairly well and made fewer mistakes than usual . Of course it was n't exactly necessary to starch Matthew 's handkerchiefs ! And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp . But that does n't seem to be your way evidently . '' Headaches always left Marilla somewhat sarcastic . `` Oh , I 'm so sorry , '' said Anne penitently . `` I never thought about that pie from the moment I put it in the oven till now , although I felt INSTINCTIVELY that there was something missing on the dinner table . I was firmly resolved , when you left me in charge this morning , not to imagine anything , but keep my thoughts on facts .
I did pretty well until I put the pie in , and then an irresistible temptation came to me to imagine I was an enchanted princess shut up in a lonely tower XXXXX a handsome knight riding to my rescue on a coal-black steed .
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