I love you in every dress ... you seem more adorable in each new dress than the last . '' ` Dearest teacher , good night . The sun has set and the stars are shining ... stars that are as bright and beautiful as your eyes . I kiss your hands and face , my sweet . May God watch over you and protect you from all harm . '' `` Your afecksionate pupil , '' ` Annetta Bell . ' '' `` This extraordinary letter puzzled me not a little . I knew Annetta could n't have composed it any more than she could fly . When I went to school the next day I took her for a walk down to the brook at recess and asked her to tell me the truth about the letter . Annetta cried and ` fessed up freely . She said she had never written a letter and she did n't know how to , or what to say , but there was bundle of love letters in her mother 's top bureau drawer which had been written to her by an old ` beau . ' '' ` It was n't father , ' sobbed Annetta , ` it was someone who was studying for a minister , and so he could write lovely letters , but ma did n't marry him after all . She said she could n't make out what he was driving at half the time . But I thought the letters were sweet and that I 'd just copy things out of them here and there to write you . I put `` teacher '' where he put `` lady '' and I put in something of my own when I could think of it and I changed some words . I put `` dress '' in place of `` mood . '' I did n't know just what a `` mood '' was but I s ` posed it was something to wear . I did n't s ` pose you 'd know the difference . I do n't see how you found out it was n't all mine . You must be awful clever , teacher . '
`` I told Annetta it was very wrong to copy another person 's letter and pass it off XXXXX her own .
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