Birds sang around Green Gables ; the Madonna lilies in the garden sent out whiffs of perfume that entered in on viewless winds at every door and window , and wandered through halls and rooms like spirits of benediction . The birches in the hollow waved joyful hands as if watching for Anne 's usual morning greeting from the east gable . But Anne was not at her window . When Marilla took her breakfast up to her she found the child sitting primly on her bed , pale and resolute , with tight-shut lips and gleaming eyes . `` Marilla , I 'm ready to confess . '' `` Ah ! '' Marilla laid down her tray . Once again her method had succeeded ; but her success was very bitter to her . `` Let me hear what you have to say then , Anne . '' `` I took the amethyst brooch , '' said Anne , as if repeating a lesson she had learned . `` I took it just as you said . I did n't mean to take it when I went in . But it did look so beautiful , Marilla , when I pinned it on my breast that I was overcome by an irresistible temptation . I imagined how perfectly thrilling it would be to take it to Idlewild and play I was the Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald . It would be so much easier to imagine I was the Lady Cordelia if I had a real amethyst brooch on . Diana and I make necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts ? So I took the brooch . I thought I could put it back before you came home . I went all the way around by the road to lengthen out the time . When I was going over the bridge across the Lake of Shining Waters I took the brooch off to have another look at it .
Oh , how it did shine XXXXX the sunlight !
So across as at before by in on over to