She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?