from Anne of Avonlea

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Respond to this quote in what way you wish:

(regarding Miss Lavendar Lewis)
"I think her parents gave her the only right and fitting name that could possible be given her," said Anne. If they had been so blind as to name her Elizabeth or Nellie or Muriel, she must have been called Lavendar just the same, I think. Its so suggestive of and old-fashioned graces and 'silk attire'. Now, my name just smacks of bread and butter, patchwork and chores.
Oh, I don't think so," said Diana. Anne seems to me real stately and like a queen. But I'd like Kerrenhappuch if it happened to be your name. I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves. I can't bear Josie or Gertie for names now but before I knew the Pye girls I thought them real pretty"

By the way, I just love the way L.M. Montgomery writes. She writes exactly the way I feel sometimes, but she makes it sound so lovely that I wish I had come up with the words for it myself.