Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.   But he had never expected to enjoy the society of a little girl. Women were bad enough in all conscience , but little girls were worse. He detested the way they had of    sidling    pat him timidily, with sidewise glance, as if they expected him to gobble them up at mouthful if they ventured to say a word. This was the Avonlea type of well-bred little girl. But this freckled witch wa very different, and although he found it rather difficult for his slower intelligence to keep up with her brisk mental processes he though that he "kind of liked her chatter." So he said as shyly as usual:   "Oh, you can talk as much as you like. I don't mind."                                                                        <Liu Yifei>    "Oh, I&#