Her grandmother brought it out from England and Miss Lavendar was awful choice of it . I was dusting it just as careful , Miss Shirley , ma'am , and it slipped out , so fashion , afore I could grab holt of it , and bruk into about forty millyun pieces . I tell you I was sorry and scared . I thought Miss Lavendar would scold me awful , ma'am ; and I 'd ruther she had than take it the way she did . She just come in and hardly looked at it and said , ` It 's no matter , Charlotta . Take up the pieces and throw them away . ' Just like that , Miss Shirley , ma'am ... ` take up the pieces and throw them away , ' as if it was n't her grandmother 's bowl from England . Oh , she is n't well and I feel awful bad about it . She 's got nobody to look after her but me . '' Charlotta the Fourth 's eyes brimmed up with tears . Anne patted the little brown paw holding the cracked pink cup sympathetically . `` I think Miss Lavendar needs a change , Charlotta . She stays here alone too much . Ca n't we induce her to go away for a little trip ? '' Charlotta shook her head , with its rampant bows , disconsolately . `` I do n't think so , Miss Shirley , ma'am . Miss Lavendar hates visiting . She 's only got three relations she ever visits and she says she just goes to see them as a family duty . Last time when she come home she said she was n't going to visit for family duty no more . ` I 've come home in love with loneliness , Charlotta , ' she says to me , ` and I never want to stray from my own vine and fig tree again .
My relations try so hard to make an old lady XXXXX me and it has a bad effect on me . '
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