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“ Well now , I reckoned you’d come to see it like that , Marilla , ” he said . “ She’s such an interesting little thing . ” “ But mind , Matthew , you’re not to interfere with my methods , ” said Marilla . “ Perhaps an old maid doesn’t know much about bringing up a child , but I guess she knows more than an old bachelor . ” “ There , there , Marilla , you can have your own way , ” said Matthew . “ Only be as good and kind to her as you can without spoiling her . I kind of think she’s one of the sort you can do anything with , if you only get her to love you . ” Marilla did not tell Anne the news that night . Instead , when Anne was ready for bed , Marilla told her to say her prayers . Anne had never said a prayer in her life , because Mrs Thomas had told her that God had made her hair red on purpose , and after that Anne had never cared about Him much . So she knelt down and made up a prayer of her own . She thanked the Gracious Heavenly Father for the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters , asked to be allowed to stay at Green Gables and to be good - looking when she grew up , and ended with the words “ Yours respectfully , Anne Shirley . ” Marilla decided that the child must be taught a proper prayer at once . But on her way downstairs , for the first time in years , she wanted to laugh . V . Red Hair and a Bad Temper The next afternoon Marilla told Anne that she could stay . She had decided to say it while Anne was washing the dishes , so that the child would have something to do with her hands . Anne stood perfectly still , and then her eyes filled with tears . “ Why , child , whatever is the matter ? ” asked Marilla . “ I’m crying because I’m so glad , ” said Anne . “ Glad doesn’t seem the right word at all , though . I was glad about the White Way and the cherry flowers , but this is something more than glad . I’ll try to be very good . It will be uphill work , because Mrs Thomas often told me that I was desperately wicked . Can you tell me why I’m crying ? ” “ I suppose it’s because you’re all excited and worked up , ” said Marilla . “ Now sit down on that chair and try to calm yourself . I’m afraid you cry and laugh far too easily . You can call me Marilla , because I’m not used to being called Miss Cuthbert , and it would make me nervous . ” So Anne stayed at Green Gables . She learnt the Lord’s Prayer from a card that hung in the kitchen , and she said that parts of it were just like music . She told Marilla about her imaginary friends : Katie Maurice , a girl who had lived in the glass door of a bookcase at Mrs Thomas’s house , and Violetta , an echo who had answered her from a green valley near the Hammonds ’ house . And she asked about the little girl at Orchard Slope , across the brook .
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