But I can not ask Mrs. Lynde to forgive me . '' `` We 're not in the habit of shutting people up in dark damp dungeons , '' said Marilla drily , `` especially as they 're rather scarce in Avonlea . But apologize to Mrs. Lynde you must and shall and you 'll stay here in your room until you can tell me you 're willing to do it . '' `` I shall have to stay here forever then , '' said Anne mournfully , `` because I ca n't tell Mrs. Lynde I 'm sorry I said those things to her . How can I ? I 'm NOT sorry . I 'm sorry I 've vexed you ; but I 'm GLAD I told her just what I did . It was a great satisfaction . I ca n't say I 'm sorry when I 'm not , can I ? I ca n't even IMAGINE I 'm sorry . '' `` Perhaps your imagination will be in better working order by the morning , '' said Marilla , rising to depart . `` You 'll have the night to think over your conduct in and come to a better frame of mind . You said you would try to be a very good girl if we kept you at Green Gables , but I must say it has n't seemed very much like it this evening . '' Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne 's stormy bosom , Marilla descended to the kitchen , grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul . She was as angry with herself as with Anne , because , whenever she recalled Mrs. Rachel 's dumbfounded countenance her lips twitched with amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh . CHAPTER X. Anne 's Apology Marilla said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening ; but when Anne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be made to account for her absence from the breakfast table . Marilla told Matthew the whole story , taking pains to impress him with a due sense of the enormity of Anne 's behavior . `` It 's a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down ; she 's a meddlesome old gossip , '' was Matthew 's consolatory rejoinder . `` Matthew Cuthbert , I 'm astonished at you . You know that Anne 's behavior was dreadful , and yet you take her part !
I suppose you 'll be saying next thing that she ought n't XXXXX be punished at all ! ''
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