Mr. Allan says so . I read one of my stories to him and Mrs. Allan and they both agreed that the moral was excellent . Only they laughed in the wrong places . I like it better when people cry . Jane and Ruby almost always cry when I come to the pathetic parts . Diana wrote her Aunt Josephine about our club and her Aunt Josephine wrote back that we were to send her some of our stories . So we copied out four of our very best and sent them . Miss Josephine Barry wrote back that she had never read anything so amusing in her life . That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and almost everybody died . But I 'm glad Miss Barry liked them . It shows our club is doing some good in the world . Mrs. Allan says that ought to be our object in everything . I do really try to make it my object but I forget so often when I 'm having fun . I hope I shall be a little like Mrs. Allan when I grow up . Do you think there is any prospect of it , Marilla ? '' `` I should n't say there was a great deal '' was Marilla 's encouraging answer . `` I 'm sure Mrs. Allan was never such a silly , forgetful little girl as you are . '' `` No ; but she was n't always so good as she is now either , '' said Anne seriously . `` She told me so herself -- that is , she said she was a dreadful mischief when she was a girl and was always getting into scrapes . I felt so encouraged when I heard that .
Is it very wicked of me , Marilla , to feel encouraged when I hear XXXXX other people have been bad and mischievous ?
So about as because in into like of that to