Anne 's Impressions of Sunday-School `` Well , how do you like them ? '' said Marilla . Anne was standing in the gable room , looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed . One was of snuffy colored gingham which Marilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer because it looked so serviceable ; one was of black-and-white checkered sateen which she had picked up at a bargain counter in the winter ; and one was a stiff print of an ugly blue shade which she had purchased that week at a Carmody store . She had made them up herself , and they were all made alike -- plain skirts fulled tightly to plain waists , with sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as sleeves could be . `` I 'll imagine that I like them , '' said Anne soberly . `` I do n't want you to imagine it , '' said Marilla , offended . `` Oh , I can see you do n't like the dresses ! What is the matter with them ? Are n't they neat and clean and new ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Then why do n't you like them ? '' `` They 're -- they 're not -- pretty , '' said Anne reluctantly . `` Pretty ! '' Marilla sniffed . `` I did n't trouble my head about getting pretty dresses for you . I do n't believe in pampering vanity , Anne , I 'll tell you that right off . Those dresses are good , sensible , serviceable dresses , without any frills or furbelows about them , and they 're all you 'll get this summer . The brown gingham and the blue print will do you for school when you begin to go . The sateen is for church and Sunday school .
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