It just goes with my hair and complexion beautifully , bringing out the red-brown shades and what Miss Oliver calls my ` creaminess ' so well . Only once before in my life have I come across that precise shade of green . When I was twelve I had a little beaver hat of it , and all the girls in school were wild over it . Well , as soon as I saw this hat I felt that I simply must have it -- and have it I did . The price was dreadful . I will not put it down here because I do n't want my descendants to know I was guilty of paying so much for a hat , in war-time , too , when everybody is -- or should be -- trying to be economical . `` When I got home and tried on the hat again in my room I was assailed by qualms . Of course , it was very becoming ; but somehow it seemed too elaborate and fussy for church going and our quiet little doings in the Glen -- too conspicuous , in short . It had n't seemed so at the milliner 's but here in my little white room it did . And that dreadful price tag ! And the starving Belgians ! When mother saw the hat and the tag she just looked at me . Mother is some expert at looking . Father says she looked him into love with her years ago in Avonlea school and I can well believe it -- though I have heard a weird tale of her banging him over the head with a slate at the very beginning of their acquaintance . Mother was a limb when she was a little girl , I understand , and even up to the time when Jem went away she was full of ginger . But let me return to my mutton -- that is to say , my new green velvet hat . '' ` Do you think , Rilla , ' mother said quietly -- far too quietly -- ` that it was right to spend so much for a hat , especially when the need of the world is so great ? ' '' ' I paid for it out of my own allowance , mother , ' I exclaimed . '' ` That is not the point . Your allowance is based on the principle of a reasonable amount for each thing you need .
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