`` 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 ca n't find it anywhere . '' `` I -- I saw it this afternoon when you were away at the Aid Society , '' said Anne , a little slowly . `` I was passing your door when I saw it on the cushion , so I went in to look at it . '' `` Did you touch it ? '' said Marilla sternly . `` Y-e-e-s , '' admitted Anne , `` I took it up and I pinned it on my breast just to see how it would look . '' `` You had no business to do anything of the sort . It 's very wrong in a little girl to meddle . You should n't have gone into my room in the first place and you should n't have touched a brooch that did n't belong to you in the second . Where did you put it ? '' `` Oh , I put it back on the bureau . I had n't it on a minute . Truly , I did n't mean to meddle , Marilla . I did n'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 . That 's one good thing about me . I never do the same naughty thing twice . '' `` You did n't put it back , '' said Marilla . `` That brooch is n't anywhere on the bureau . You 've taken it out or something , Anne . ''
`` I did put it back , '' said Anne quickly -- pertly , XXXXX thought .
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