As for the things I want, they're so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all so I will only mention the two most important.

Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up.
I remain, "Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.
"There, did I do all right ?" she asked eagerly, getting up.

"I could have made it much more flowery if I'd had a little more time to think it over." Poor Marilla was only preserved from complete collapse by remembering that it was not irreverence, but simply spiritual ignorance on the part of Anne that was responsible for this extraordinary petition.

She tucked the child up in bed, mentally vowing that she should be taught a prayer the very next day, and was leaving the room with the light when Anne called her back.
"I've just thought of it now.

I should have said, 'Amen' in place of 'yours respectfully,' shouldn't I ?--the way the ministers do.