She kept me in at recess and talked to me . She said I had done very wrong in two respects . First , I was wasting the time I ought to have put on my studies ; and secondly , I was deceiving my teacher in trying to make it appear I was reading a history when it was a storybook instead . I had never realized until that moment , Marilla , that what I was doing was deceitful . I was shocked . I cried bitterly , and asked Miss Stacy to forgive me and I 'd never do such a thing again ; and I offered to do penance by never so much as looking at Ben Hur for a whole week , not even to see how the chariot race turned out . But Miss Stacy said she would n't require that , and she forgave me freely . So I think it was n't very kind of her to come up here to you about it after all . '' `` Miss Stacy never mentioned such a thing to me , Anne , and its only your guilty conscience that 's the matter with you . You have no business to be taking storybooks to school . You read too many novels anyhow . When I was a girl I was n't so much as allowed to look at a novel . '' `` Oh , how can you call Ben Hur a novel when it 's really such a religious book ? '' protested Anne . `` Of course it 's a little too exciting to be proper reading for Sunday , and I only read it on weekdays . And I never read ANY book now unless either Miss Stacy or Mrs. Allan thinks it is a proper book for a girl thirteen and three-quarters to read . Miss Stacy made me promise that . She found me reading a book one day called , The Lurid Mystery of the Haunted Hall . It was one Ruby Gillis had lent me , and , oh , Marilla , it was so fascinating and creepy . It just curdled the blood in my veins .
But Miss Stacy said it was a very silly , unwholesome book , and she asked me not XXXXX read any more of it or any like it .
So about after by in of on that to until