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The roses and buttercups were so sweet and pretty I thought they'd look lovely on my hat.

Lots of the little girls had artificial flowers on their hats.

I'm afraid I'm going to be a dreadful trial to you.

Maybe you'd better send me back to the asylum.

That would be terrible; I don't think I could endure it; most likely I would go into consumption; I'm so thin as it is, you see.

But that would be better than being a trial to you."

"Nonsense," said Marilla, vexed at herself for having made the child cry.

"I don't want to send you back to the asylum, I'm sure.

All I want is that you should behave like other little girls and not make yourself ridiculous.

Don't cry any more.

I've got some news for you.

Diana Barry came home this afternoon.

I'm going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs. Barry, and if you like you can come with me and get acquainted with Diana."

Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.

"Oh, Marilla, I'm frightened-now that it has come I'm actually frightened. What if she shouldn't like me! It would be the most tragical disappointment of my life."

"Now, don't get into a fluster.

And I do wish you wouldn't use such long words.

It sounds so funny in a little girl.

I guess Diana'll like you well enough.

It's her mother you've got to reckon with.

If she doesn't like you it won't matter how much Diana does.

If she has heard about your outburst to Mrs. Lynde and going to church with buttercups round your hat I don't know what she'll think of you.

You must be polite and well behaved, and don't make any of your startling speeches.

For pity's sake, if the child isn't actually trembling!"

Anne WAS trembling. Her face was pale and tense.

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