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 to read any more of it or any like it . I did n't mind promising not to read any more like it , but it was AGONIZING to give back that book without knowing how it turned out . But my love for Miss Stacy stood the test and I did . It 's really wonderful , Marilla , what you can do when you 're truly anxious to please a certain person . '' `` Well , I guess I 'll light the lamp and get to work , '' said Marilla . `` I see plainly that you do n't want to hear what Miss Stacy had to say .
You 're more interested XXXXX the sound of your own tongue than in anything else . ''
So after for in like of on unless with without