Oh , do let me ! '' `` Goodness , I do n't care . But where on earth is the sense of naming a geranium ? '' `` Oh , I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums . It makes them seem more like people . How do you know but that it hurts a geranium 's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else ? You would n't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time . Yes , I shall call it Bonny . I named that cherry-tree outside my bedroom window this morning . I called it Snow Queen because it was so white . Of course , it wo n't always be in blossom , but one can imagine that it is , ca n't one ? '' `` I never in all my life saw or heard anything to equal her , '' muttered Marilla , beating a retreat down to the cellar after potatoes . `` She is kind of interesting as Matthew says . I can feel already that I 'm wondering what on earth she 'll say next . She 'll be casting a spell over me , too . She 's cast it over Matthew . That look he gave me when he went out said everything he said or hinted last night over again . I wish he was like other men and would talk things out . A body could answer back then and argue him into reason . But what 's to be done with a man who just LOOKS ? ''
Anne had relapsed into reverie , XXXXX her chin in her hands and her eyes on the sky , when Marilla returned from her cellar pilgrimage .
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