It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty . '' Chapter XXXV The Last Redmond Year Opens `` Here we are , all back again , nicely sunburned and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race , '' said Phil , sitting down on a suitcase with a sigh of pleasure . `` Is n't it jolly to see this dear old Patty 's Place again -- and Aunty -- and the cats ? Rusty has lost another piece of ear , has n't he ? '' `` Rusty would be the nicest cat in the world if he had no ears at all , '' declared Anne loyally from her trunk , while Rusty writhed about her lap in a frenzy of welcome . `` Are n't you glad to see us back , Aunty ? '' demanded Phil . `` Yes . But I wish you 'd tidy things up , '' said Aunt Jamesina plaintively , looking at the wilderness of trunks and suitcases by which the four laughing , chattering girls were surrounded . `` You can talk just as well later on . Work first and then play used to be my motto when I was a girl . '' `` Oh , we 've just reversed that in this generation , Aunty . OUR motto is play your play and then dig in . You can do your work so much better if you 've had a good bout of play first . '' `` If you are going to marry a minister , '' said Aunt Jamesina , picking up Joseph and her knitting and resigning herself to the inevitable with the charming grace that made her the queen of housemothers , `` you will have to give up such expressions as ` dig in . ' '' `` Why ? '' moaned Phil . `` Oh , why must a minister 's wife be supposed to utter only prunes and prisms ? I sha n't . Everybody on Patterson Street uses slang -- that is to say , metaphorical language -- and if I did n't they would think me insufferably proud and stuck up . ''
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