All His pictures are like that , if you 've noticed . But I do n't believe He could really have looked so sad or the children would have been afraid of Him . '' `` Anne , '' said Marilla , wondering why she had not broken into this speech long before , `` you should n't talk that way . It 's irreverent -- positively irreverent . '' Anne 's eyes marveled . `` Why , I felt just as reverent as could be . I 'm sure I did n't mean to be irreverent . '' `` Well I do n't suppose you did -- but it does n't sound right to talk so familiarly about such things . And another thing , Anne , when I send you after something you 're to bring it at once and not fall into mooning and imagining before pictures . Remember that . Take that card and come right to the kitchen . Now , sit down in the corner and learn that prayer off by heart . '' Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner-table -- Marilla had eyed that decoration askance , but had said nothing -- propped her chin on her hands , and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes . `` I like this , '' she announced at length . `` It 's beautiful . I 've heard it before -- I heard the superintendent of the asylum Sunday school say it over once . But I did n't like it then . He had such a cracked voice and he prayed it so mournfully . I really felt sure he thought praying was a disagreeable duty . This is n't poetry , but it makes me feel just the same way poetry does .
` Our Father who art XXXXX heaven hallowed be Thy name . '
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