`` I could n't -- I had such a cold ! '' and with this she fairly fled to the gable chamber , where she cast herself on the bed and wept as one who refuses to be comforted . Presently a light step sounded on the stairs and somebody entered the room . `` Oh , Marilla , '' sobbed Anne , without looking up , `` I 'm disgraced forever . I shall never be able to live this down . It will get out -- things always do get out in Avonlea . Diana will ask me how my cake turned out and I shall have to tell her the truth . I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment . Gil -- the boys in school will never get over laughing at it . Oh , Marilla , if you have a spark of Christian pity do n't tell me that I must go down and wash the dishes after this . I 'll wash them when the minister and his wife are gone , but I can not ever look Mrs. Allan in the face again . Perhaps she 'll think I tried to poison her . Mrs. Lynde says she knows an orphan girl who tried to poison her benefactor . But the liniment is n't poisonous . It 's meant to be taken internally -- although not in cakes . Wo n't you tell Mrs. Allan so , Marilla ? '' `` Suppose you jump up and tell her so yourself , '' said a merry voice . Anne flew up , to find Mrs. Allan standing by her bed , surveying her with laughing eyes . `` My dear little girl , you must n't cry like this , '' she said , genuinely disturbed by Anne 's tragic face . `` Why , it 's all just a funny mistake that anybody might make . ''
`` Oh , no , it takes me XXXXX make such a mistake , '' said Anne forlornly .
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