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"So you had tea at the stone house with Lavendar Lewis?" said Marilla at the breakfast table next"What is she like now? It's over fifteen years since I saw her lastit was one Sunday in Grafton church I suppose she has changed a great deal Davy Keith, when you want so you can't reach, ask to have it passed and don't spread yourself over the table in that fashion Did you ever see Paul Irving doing that when he was here to er'n row and mine've only had seven 'Sides, I DID ask, but you and Anne was so busy talking you didn't pay any 'tention 'Sides, Paul's never been here to any meal escept tea, and it's easier to be p'lite at tea than at breakfast You ain't half as hungry It's an awful long while between supper and breakfast Now, Anne, that spoonful ain't any bigger than it was last year and I'M ever so er"
"Of course, I don't knohat Miss Lavendar used to look like but I don't fancy soreat deal," said Anne, after she had helped Davy tohim two spoonfuls to pacify hiirlish, and she has the sweetest brown eyessuch a pretty shade of wood-broith little golden glints in themand her voicewater and fairy bells all reat beauty when she was a girl," said Marilla "I never knew her very well but I liked her as far as I did know her Soht her peculiar even then DAVY, if ever I catch you at such a trick again you'll be made to wait for your meals till everyone else is done, like the French"
Most conversations between Anne and Marilla in the presence of the twins, were punctuated by these rebukes Davy-ward In this instance, Davy, sad to relate, not being able to scoop up the last drops of his syrup with his spoon, had solved the difficulty by lifting his plate in both hands and applying his sue to it Anne looked at him with such horrified eyes that the little sinner turned red and said, half shamefacedly, half defiantly, "There ain't any wasted that way"
"People who are different from other people are always called peculiar," said Anne "And Miss Lavendar is certainly different, though it's hard to say just where the difference comes in Perhaps it is because she is one of those people who never grow old"