`` I told Annetta it was very wrong to copy another person 's letter and pass it off as her own . But I 'm afraid that all Annetta repented of was being found out . '' ` And I do love you , teacher , ' she sobbed . ` It was all true , even if the minister wrote it first . I do love you with all my heart . ' `` It 's very difficult to scold anybody properly under such circumstances . `` Here is Barbara Shaw 's letter . I ca n't reproduce the blots of the original . '' ` Dear teacher , '' `` You said we might write about a visit . I never visited but once . It was at my Aunt Mary 's last winter . My Aunt Mary is a very particular woman and a great housekeeper . The first night I was there we were at tea . I knocked over a jug and broke it . Aunt Mary said she had had that jug ever since she was married and nobody had ever broken it before . When we got up I stepped on her dress and all the gathers tore out of the skirt . The next morning when I got up I hit the pitcher against the basin and cracked them both and I upset a cup of tea on the tablecloth at breakfast . When I was helping Aunt Mary with the dinner dishes I dropped a china plate and it smashed . That evening I fell downstairs and sprained my ankle and had to stay in bed for a week . I heard Aunt Mary tell Uncle Joseph it was a mercy or I 'd have broken everything in the house .
When I got better it was time XXXXX go home .
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