`` Why should I ? There are enough folks who do . The world needs people like me , Anne , just to amuse it . It would be a terrible place if EVERYBODY were intellectual and serious and in deep , deadly earnest . MY mission is , as Josiah Allen says , ` to charm and allure . ' Confess now . Has n't life at Patty 's Place been really much brighter and pleasanter this past winter because I 've been here to leaven you ? '' `` Yes , it has , '' owned Anne . `` And you all love me -- even Aunt Jamesina , who thinks I 'm stark mad . So why should I try to be different ? Oh , dear , I 'm so sleepy . I was awake until one last night , reading a harrowing ghost story . I read it in bed , and after I had finished it do you suppose I could get out of bed to put the light out ? No ! And if Stella had not fortunately come in late that lamp would have burned good and bright till morning . When I heard Stella I called her in , explained my predicament , and got her to put out the light . If I had got out myself to do it I knew something would grab me by the feet when I was getting in again . By the way , Anne , has Aunt Jamesina decided what to do this summer ? '' `` Yes , she 's going to stay here . I know she 's doing it for the sake of those blessed cats , although she says it 's too much trouble to open her own house , and she hates visiting . ''
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