`` She 's actually delighted when anyone writes her name up in a take-notice for all she pretends to be so mad . But I 'm afraid that is an uncharitable speech . Mrs. Allan says we should never make uncharitable speeches ; but they do slip out so often before you think , do n't they ? I simply ca n't talk about Josie Pye without making an uncharitable speech , so I never mention her at all . You may have noticed that . I 'm trying to be as much like Mrs. Allan as I possibly can , for I think she 's perfect . Mr. Allan thinks so too . Mrs. Lynde says he just worships the ground she treads on and she does n't really think it right for a minister to set his affections so much on a mortal being . But then , Diana , even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else . I had such an interesting talk with Mrs. Allan about besetting sins last Sunday afternoon . There are just a few things it 's proper to talk about on Sundays and that is one of them . My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties . I 'm striving very hard to overcome it and now that I 'm really thirteen perhaps I 'll get on better . '' `` In four more years we 'll be able to put our hair up , '' said Diana . `` Alice Bell is only sixteen and she is wearing hers up , but I think that 's ridiculous . I shall wait until I 'm seventeen . '' `` If I had Alice Bell 's crooked nose , '' said Anne decidedly , `` I would n't -- but there ! I wo n't say what I was going to because it was extremely uncharitable . Besides , I was comparing it with my own nose and that 's vanity . I 'm afraid I think too much about my nose ever since I heard that compliment about it long ago .
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