`` I took the amethyst brooch , '' said Anne , as if repeating a lesson she had learned . `` I took it just as you said . I did n't mean to take it when I went in . But it did look so beautiful , Marilla , when I pinned it on my breast that I was overcome by an irresistible temptation . I imagined how perfectly thrilling it would be to take it to Idlewild and play I was the Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald . It would be so much easier to imagine I was the Lady Cordelia if I had a real amethyst brooch on . Diana and I make necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts ? So I took the brooch . I thought I could put it back before you came home . I went all the way around by the road to lengthen out the time . When I was going over the bridge across the Lake of Shining Waters I took the brooch off to have another look at it . Oh , how it did shine in the sunlight ! And then , when I was leaning over the bridge , it just slipped through my fingers -- so -- and went down -- down -- down , all purply-sparkling , and sank forevermore beneath the Lake of Shining Waters . And that 's the best I can do at confessing , Marilla . '' Marilla felt hot anger surge up into her heart again . This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly reciting the details thereof without the least apparent compunction or repentance . `` Anne , this is terrible , '' she said , trying to speak calmly . `` You are the very wickedest girl I ever heard of . '' `` Yes , I suppose I am , '' agreed Anne tranquilly . `` And I know I 'll have to be punished .
It 'll be your duty XXXXX punish me , Marilla .
So as at beneath if in into of to without