`` And now about the Sunday school . I behaved well , just as you told me . Mrs. Lynde was gone , but I went right on myself . I went into the church , with a lot of other little girls , and I sat in the corner of a pew by the window while the opening exercises went on . Mr. Bell made an awfully long prayer . I would have been dreadfully tired before he got through if I had n't been sitting by that window . But it looked right out on the Lake of Shining Waters , so I just gazed at that and imagined all sorts of splendid things . '' `` You should n't have done anything of the sort . You should have listened to Mr. Bell . '' `` But he was n't talking to me , '' protested Anne . `` He was talking to God and he did n't seem to be very much inter-ested in it , either . I think he thought God was too far off though . There was a long row of white birches hanging over the lake and the sunshine fell down through them , ` way , ` way down , deep into the water . Oh , Marilla , it was like a beautiful dream ! It gave me a thrill and I just said , ` Thank you for it , God , ' two or three times . '' `` Not out loud , I hope , '' said Marilla anxiously . `` Oh , no , just under my breath . Well , Mr. Bell did get through at last and they told me to go into the classroom with Miss Rogerson 's class . There were nine other girls in it . They all had puffed sleeves .
I tried XXXXX imagine mine were puffed , too , but I could n't .
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