`` Did you really say it ? Or did I only imagine that you did ? '' `` I think you 'd better learn to control that imagination of yours , Anne , if you ca n't distinguish between what is real and what is n't , '' said Marilla crossly . `` Yes , you did hear me say just that and no more . It is n't decided yet and perhaps we will conclude to let Mrs. Blewett take you after all . She certainly needs you much more than I do . '' `` I 'd rather go back to the asylum than go to live with her , '' said Anne passionately . `` She looks exactly like a -- like a gimlet . '' Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech . `` A little girl like you should be ashamed of talking so about a lady and a stranger , '' she said severely . `` Go back and sit down quietly and hold your tongue and behave as a good girl should . '' `` I 'll try to do and be anything you want me , if you 'll only keep me , '' said Anne , returning meekly to her ottoman . When they arrived back at Green Gables that evening Matthew met them in the lane . Marilla from afar had noted him prowling along it and guessed his motive . She was prepared for the relief she read in his face when he saw that she had at least brought back Anne back with her . But she said nothing , to him , relative to the affair , until they were both out in the yard behind the barn milking the cows . Then she briefly told him Anne 's history and the result of the interview with Mrs. Spencer . `` I would n't give a dog I liked to that Blewett woman , '' said Matthew with unusual vim . `` I do n't fancy her style myself , '' admitted Marilla , `` but it 's that or keeping her ourselves , Matthew . And since you seem to want her , I suppose I 'm willing -- or have to be .
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