Just look at it, Marilla.

'Miss Anne Shirley, Green Gables.' That is the first time I was ever called 'Miss.' Such a thrill as it gave me! I shall cherish it forever among my choicest treasures." "Mrs.Allan told me she meant to have all the members of her Sunday-school class to tea in turn," said Marilla, regarding the wonderful event very coolly.

"You needn't get in such a fever over it.
Do learn to take things calmly, child." For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature.

All "spirit and fire and dew," as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity.

Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.