I should think you 'd be grateful to get most anything after those skimpy wincey things you 've been wearing . '' `` Oh , I AM grateful , '' protested Anne . `` But I 'd be ever so much gratefuller if -- if you 'd made just one of them with puffed sleeves . Puffed sleeves are so fashionable now . It would give me such a thrill , Marilla , just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves . '' `` Well , you 'll have to do without your thrill . I had n't any material to waste on puffed sleeves . I think they are ridiculous-looking things anyhow . I prefer the plain , sensible ones . '' `` But I 'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself , '' persisted Anne mournfully . `` Trust you for that ! Well , hang those dresses carefully up in your closet , and then sit down and learn the Sunday school lesson . I got a quarterly from Mr. Bell for you and you 'll go to Sunday school tomorrow , '' said Marilla , disappearing downstairs in high dudgeon . Anne clasped her hands and looked at the dresses . `` I did hope there would be a white one with puffed sleeves , '' she whispered disconsolately . `` I prayed for one , but I did n't much expect it on that account . I did n't suppose God would have time to bother about a little orphan girl 's dress . I knew I 'd just have to depend on Marilla for it . Well , fortunately I can imagine that one of them is of snow-white muslin with lovely lace frills and three-puffed sleeves . '' The next morning warnings of a sick headache prevented Marilla from going to Sunday-school with Anne .
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