We felt extremely solemn , Marilla . And we decided that we would try to be very careful indeed and form respectable habits and learn all we could and be as sensible as possible , so that by the time we were twenty our characters would be properly developed . It 's perfectly appalling to think of being twenty , Marilla . It sounds so fearfully old and grown up . But why was Miss Stacy here this afternoon ? '' `` That is what I want to tell you , Anne , if you 'll ever give me a chance to get a word in edgewise . She was talking about you . '' `` About me ? '' Anne looked rather scared . Then she flushed and exclaimed : `` Oh , I know what she was saying . I meant to tell you , Marilla , honestly I did , but I forgot . Miss Stacy caught me reading Ben Hur in school yesterday afternoon when I should have been studying my Canadian history . Jane Andrews lent it to me . I was reading it at dinner hour , and I had just got to the chariot race when school went in . I was simply wild to know how it turned out -- although I felt sure Ben Hur must win , because it would n't be poetical justice if he did n't -- so I spread the history open on my desk lid and then tucked Ben Hur between the desk and my knee . I just looked as if I were studying Canadian history , you know , while all the while I was reveling in Ben Hur . I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy coming down the aisle until all at once I just looked up and there she was looking down at me , so reproachful-like . I ca n't tell you how ashamed I felt , Marilla , especially when I heard Josie Pye giggling . Miss Stacy took Ben Hur away , but she never said a word then . She kept me in at recess and talked to me .
She said I had done very wrong XXXXX two respects .
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