I could n't , I know . I think amethysts are just sweet . They are what I used to think diamonds were like . Long ago , before I had ever seen a diamond , I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like . I thought they would be lovely glimmering purple stones . When I saw a real diamond in a lady 's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried . Of course , it was very lovely but it was n't my idea of a diamond . Will you let me hold the brooch for one minute , Marilla ? Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets ? '' CHAPTER XIV . Anne 's Confession ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room with a troubled face . `` 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 XXXXX the second .
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