They 're very often just nasty and stupid . '' `` It was awful funny to see Marilla and you looking down the well , though , '' said Davy , hugging his knees . Anne kept a sober face until she got downstairs and then she collapsed on the sitting room lounge and laughed until her sides ached . `` I wish you 'd tell me the joke , '' said Marilla , a little grimly . `` I have n't seen much to laugh at today . '' `` You 'll laugh when you hear this , '' assured Anne . And Marilla did laugh , which showed how much her education had advanced since the adoption of Anne . But she sighed immediately afterwards . `` I suppose I should n't have told him that , although I heard a minister say it to a child once . But he did aggravate me so . It was that night you were at the Carmody concert and I was putting him to bed . He said he did n't see the good of praying until he got big enough to be of some importance to God . Anne , I do not know what we are going to do with that child . I never saw his beat . I 'm feeling clean discouraged . '' `` Oh , do n't say that , Marilla . Remember how bad I was when I came here . '' `` Anne , you never were bad ... NEVER . I see that now , when I 've learned what real badness is . You were always getting into terrible scrapes , I 'll admit , but your motive was always good .
Davy is just bad from sheer love XXXXX it . ''
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