Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse . '' `` But we 're so careful to put a moral into them all , Marilla , '' explained Anne . `` I insist upon that . All the good people are rewarded and all the bad ones are suitably punished . I 'm sure that must have a wholesome effect . The moral is the great thing . Mr. Allan says so . I read one of my stories to him and Mrs. Allan and they both agreed that the moral was excellent . Only they laughed in the wrong places . I like it better when people cry . Jane and Ruby almost always cry when I come to the pathetic parts . Diana wrote her Aunt Josephine about our club and her Aunt Josephine wrote back that we were to send her some of our stories . So we copied out four of our very best and sent them . Miss Josephine Barry wrote back that she had never read anything so amusing in her life . That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and almost everybody died . But I 'm glad Miss Barry liked them . It shows our club is doing some good in the world . Mrs. Allan says that ought to be our object in everything . I do really try to make it my object but I forget so often when I 'm having fun . I hope I shall be a little like Mrs. Allan when I grow up .
Do you think there is any prospect of it , XXXXX ? ''
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