`` Dora will sleep with me and you can put Davy in the west gable . You 're not afraid to sleep alone , are you , Davy ? '' `` No ; but I ai n't going to bed for ever so long yet , '' said Davy comfortably . `` Oh , yes , you are . '' That was all the much-tried Marilla said , but something in her tone squelched even Davy . He trotted obediently upstairs with Anne . `` When I 'm grown up the very first thing I 'm going to do is stay up ALL night just to see what it would be like , '' he told her confidentially . In after years Marilla never thought of that first week of the twins ' sojourn at Green Gables without a shiver . Not that it really was so much worse than the weeks that followed it ; but it seemed so by reason of its novelty . There was seldom a waking minute of any day when Davy was not in mischief or devising it ; but his first notable exploit occurred two days after his arrival , on Sunday morning ... a fine , warm day , as hazy and mild as September . Anne dressed him for church while Marilla attended to Dora . Davy at first objected strongly to having his face washed . `` Marilla washed it yesterday ... and Mrs. Wiggins scoured me with hard soap the day of the funeral . That 's enough for one week . I do n't see the good of being so awful clean . It 's lots more comfable being dirty . '' `` Paul Irving washes his face every day of his own accord , '' said Anne astutely . Davy had been an inmate of Green Gables for little over forty-eight hours ; but he already worshipped Anne and hated Paul Irving , whom he had heard Anne praising enthusiastically the day after his arrival . If Paul Irving washed his face every day , that settled it . He , Davy Keith , would do it too , if it killed him .
The same consideration induced him to submit meekly XXXXX the other details of his toilet , and he was really a handsome little lad when all was done .
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