'What's your name?'
The child hesitated for a moment.
'Will you please call me Cordelia?' she said eagerly.
'CALL you Cordelia? Is that your name?'
'No-o-o, it's not exactly my name, but I would love to be called Cordelia. It's such a perfectly elegant name.'
'I don't know what on earth you mean. If Cordelia isn't your name, what is?'
'Anne Shirley,' reluctantly faltered forth the owner of that name, 'but, oh, please do call me Cordelia. It can't matter much to you what you call me if I'm only going to be here a little while, can it? And Anne is such an unromantic name.'
'Unromantic fiddlesticks!' said the unsympathetic Marilla. 'Anne is a real good plain sensible name. You've no need to be ashamed of it.'
'Oh, I'm not ashamed of it,' explained Anne, 'only I like Cordelia better. I've alwa... (查看原文)
It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. (查看原文)
