But I 'm glad it 's not rainy today because it 's easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day . I feel that I have a good deal to bear up under . It 's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically , but it 's not so nice when you really come to have them , is it ? '' `` For pity 's sake hold your tongue , '' said Marilla . `` You talk entirely too much for a little girl . '' Thereupon Anne held her tongue so obediently and thoroughly that her continued silence made Marilla rather nervous , as if in the presence of something not exactly natural . Matthew also held his tongue , -- but this was natural , -- so that the meal was a very silent one . As it progressed Anne became more and more abstracted , eating mechanically , with her big eyes fixed unswervingly and unseeingly on the sky outside the window . This made Marilla more nervous than ever ; she had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child 's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland , borne aloft on the wings of imagination . Who would want such a child about the place ? Yet Matthew wished to keep her , of all unaccountable things ! Marilla felt that he wanted it just as much this morning as he had the night before , and that he would go on wanting it . That was Matthew 's way -- take a whim into his head and cling to it with the most amazing silent persistency -- a persistency ten times more potent and effectual in its very silence than if he had talked it out . When the meal was ended Anne came out of her reverie and offered to wash the dishes . `` Can you wash dishes right ? '' asked Marilla distrustfully . `` Pretty well . I 'm better at looking after children , though . I 've had so much experience at that . It 's such a pity you have n't any here for me to look after . ''
`` I do n't feel as if I wanted any more children to XXXXX after than I 've got at present .
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