Milty says when company comes his mother gives them cheese and cuts it herself ... one little bit apiece and one over for manners . '' `` If Milty Boulter talks like that about his mother at least you need n't repeat it , '' said Marilla severely . `` Bless my soul , '' ... Davy had picked this expression up from Mr. Harrison and used it with great gusto ... `` Milty meant it as a compelment . He 's awful proud of his mother , cause folks say she could scratch a living on a rock . '' `` I ... I suppose them pesky hens are in my pansy bed again , '' said Marilla , rising and going out hurriedly . The slandered hens were nowhere near the pansy bed and Marilla did not even glance at it . Instead , she sat down on the cellar hatch and laughed until she was ashamed of herself . When Anne and Paul reached the stone house that afternoon they found Miss Lavendar and Charlotta the Fourth in the garden , weeding , raking , clipping , and trimming as if for dear life . Miss Lavendar herself , all gay and sweet in the frills and laces she loved , dropped her shears and ran joyously to meet her guests , while Charlotta the Fourth grinned cheerfully . `` Welcome , Anne . I thought you 'd come today . You belong to the afternoon so it brought you . Things that belong together are sure to come together . What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it . But they do n't ... and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that DO N'T belong . And you , Paul ... why , you 've grown ! You 're half a head taller than when you were here before . '' `` Yes , I 've begun to grow like pigweed in the night , as Mrs. Lynde says , '' said Paul , in frank delight over the fact . `` Grandma says it 's the porridge taking effect at last . Perhaps it is .
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