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Today's story is a chapter from the classic novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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Chapter 10, Anne's Apology

Marilla said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening, but when Anne proved still refractory the next morning, an explanation had to be made to account for her absence from the breakfast table.

Marilla told Matthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of the enormity of Anne's behavior.

It's a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down.

She's a meddlesome old gossip, was Matthew's consolatory rejoinder.

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