Anne of Avonlea

by L.M. Montgomery

She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick."

"Now, we must set the table," said Anne, in the tone of a priestess about to perform some sacred rite in honor of a divinity.

"If you mean ECONOMICAL, it's a VERY different thing from being stingy.

"Oh, of course there's a resk in marrying anybody," conceded Charlotta the Fourth, "but, when all's said and done, Miss Shirley, ma'am, there's many a worse thing than a husband."