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.