lucy maud montgomery anne of green gables

It was not to be found and she returned to the kitchen. Marilla went to her room and made a thorough search, not only over the bureau but in every other place she thought the brooch might possibly be. If it isn’t I’ll know you didn’t, that’s all!” “If you put that brooch back it’s there still. “I’ll go and have another look,” said Marilla, determining to be just. But I’m perfectly certain I put it back.”

“I don’t just remember whether I stuck it on the pincushion or laid it in the china tray. “I did put it back,” said Anne quickly-pertly, Marilla thought. “That brooch isn’t anywhere on the bureau. I never do the same naughty thing twice.” I didn’t think about its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch but I see now that it was and I’ll never do it again. You shouldn’t have gone into my room in the first place and you shouldn’t have touched a brooch that didn’t belong to you in the second. It’s very wrong in a little girl to meddle. “You had no business to do anything of the sort. “Y-e-e-s,” admitted Anne, “I took it up and I pinned it on my breast just to see how it would look.” “Did you touch it?” said Marilla sternly. “I was passing your door when I saw it on the cushion, so I went in to look at it.” “I-I saw it this afternoon when you were away at the Aid Society,” said Anne, a little slowly. “Anne,” she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the spotless table and singing, “Nelly of the Hazel Dell” with a vigor and expression that did credit to Diana’s teaching, “did you see anything of my amethyst brooch? I thought I stuck it in my pincushion when I came home from church yesterday evening, but I can’t find it anywhere.”

ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room with a troubled face. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.

Lucy maud montgomery anne of green gables