Chapter 15 Chapter 14 The Pin Incident

On Monday night, the first two days of the outing, Marilla came out of her room anxiously.At this moment, Annie was sitting at the clean table, humming loudly while peeling the green peas.She sang very heartily, cheerfully, and expressively, and it can be said that this is entirely the result of Diana's good guidance. "Annie, have you seen my amethyst brooch? I remember putting it in the needle bag after I came back from church last night, but I can't find it now." "How is it possible? I saw it when Marilla went to the Women's Association in the afternoon." Anne said slowly. "At that time, I happened to pass by the door of Marilla's room and saw it was being stuck in the needle bag, so I walked in curiously to have a look."

"Did you touch it?" Marilla asked hastily. "Yes." Annie admitted without hesitation. "I just took it in my hand and wanted to see what it would look like on my chest." "How can you be so messy? It's disgusting to dare to flip through this and that at such a young age. First of all, it's not right to break into my room casually, and it's even more wrong to mess with other people's things. Tell me, where did you put it?" "Just put it on the closet just like that, didn't take it out at all, didn't mess it up, and I'm telling the truth, Marilla. If I knew it was wrong to go into the house and play with pins, I would never Do."

"It's not there. I've searched all over the closet, up and down, front and back, but there are no pins. Didn't you take it outside?" "It's really not there, it's indeed back where it was." Annie was a little impatient.Attitude hardened. "However, whether it was inserted in the needle bag or placed on the plate, I don't remember clearly, but it must have been put back." "Look again, this pin can't grow wings and fly by itself? If you put it back in place, it should still be there. If not, you didn't put it back, right?"

After Marilla finished speaking, she went back to her room and searched thoroughly, not only the closet, but also every place where pins could be placed, but the result still disappointed her, so Marilla went to the kitchen again. "Annie, I still haven't found it. Didn't you just admit that you touched it for the last time? To be honest, where is the pin? Did it get lost outside?" "That's not the case at all." Annie said seriously, looking straight into Marilla's eyes. "I have never been taken out. Even if I was sent to the guillotine, I would still say the same thing." Annie tried her best to defend herself, but she also revealed a trace of resistance to Marilla.

"I always thought you were lying," Marilla said with a straight face. "Well, if you plan to hide it, you don't have to say it, but you must stay in your room, and you are not allowed to come out unless you confess." "Can you take the green peas?" Anne asked dejectedly. "No need, I can peel the skin myself, do as I say!" Anne is gone.Marilla fidgeted about this and that, but still couldn't get over the precious pin. "What if Annie really lost the pin? Is Annie really the kind of child who thinks she can deny it without being seen? If so, it's really enough to pretend to be innocent and innocent." Disgusting." Marilla was thinking wildly as she anxiously peeled the green peas.

"I didn't expect such a thing to happen. Naturally, Annie definitely didn't have the idea of ​​stealing it. She just took it out for fun. Maybe it was used as a fantasy prop. If you say Qiandao, it must be the child who took it. Yes. Before I went out this afternoon, no one but her had entered the room. Didn't Anne admit it herself? In short, the pin must have been lost, but Anne has been afraid to admit it for fear of being told. Anne still Lying is more disturbing than being grumpy, and it's no small responsibility to keep an untrustworthy child at home. The child is so good at acting that it's impossible to tell a lie. She will be sad about it , but if she had told the truth, I might not be so angry."

That night, Marilla searched several times but still found nothing. Before going to bed, she went to the East Wing again, trying to get some clues from Annie, but Annie still said the same thing—don't know.This made Marilla even more convinced that Anne had something to do with it. The next morning, Marilla told Marshall what had happened, and Marshall had nothing to do.Marshall always believed in Anne, but in this matter, Anne was indeed suspicious. "Didn't you fall behind the closet?" Marshall got up to check the closet. "The wardrobe was moved, all the drawers were pulled out one by one, and all corners were searched, but nothing was found. It is obvious that the child is lying. Unfortunately, we can only admit this fact, brother .”

"So, what are you going to do?" asked Marshall dejectedly. "If she doesn't confess, she won't be allowed out of the room." Marilla replied with a sullen face. She had succeeded in this way before. "What to do in the future, think about it after the fact. If you know where the pin is, you may still find it, but the child will not be punished too severely." "It's up to you," said Marshall, tugging at his hat. "It's all the rules that have been set early. I won't interfere with anything. It's what you said." At this moment, Marilla felt a sense of being abandoned. No one cared about this matter, and she couldn't go to Mrs. Linde's house to discuss and ask for advice, so she had to go to the East Wing with a heavy heart. But when she came out, she had a serious face It was worse, for Anne remained obstinate, and began to cry, which again aroused Marilla's pity, but she immediately reproached herself for being too soft-hearted.

In the evening, Marilla was exhausted, but she still kept saying to Annie: "You can't come out without confessing!" "But, Marilla, there's a picnic to-morrow," cried Anne. "Can you let me go on an outing? Just let me go out for a while in the afternoon.If you agree, you can lock me up as much as you want, and I'll stay here happily, how about it?I'd like to go on an outing anyway. " "As long as you don't confess, you are not allowed to participate in outings or other activities!" "So unkind, Marilla?" said Anne in embarrassment.However, Marilla didn't want to talk to her anymore, and had already closed the door and gone out.

The weather on Wednesday morning was particularly good, as if it was specially prepared for an outing.Around Green Gaybruzzi, the birds were chirping non-stop, and the fragrance of lilies in the courtyard floated into the house through the doors and windows in the breeze, sending blessings, and then floated to every corner of the corridor and the room. corner.The birch trees in the hollow seemed to be waiting for the usual greeting from Anne in the East Wing, swaying happily in the wind. However, there was no shadow of Anne by the window of the East Wing. When Marilla went to deliver breakfast, Anne was sitting on the bed, her lips were tightly closed, her eyes flickered, and she looked stiff as if she had made up her mind. Zhang Tieqing's face.

"Marilla, I confess." "Okay." Marilla put down the meal, and this time Marilla succeeded again, but the taste of success was bitter. "Then tell me about it, Anne." "I took the amethyst brooch out," said Anne timidly, sounding like she was reciting. "It's the same as when Marilla went out. I wore it out. When I first saw it, I didn't have that kind of thought, but when I wore it on my chest, I felt very beautiful. I finally couldn't stand the temptation and took it outside. I thought, if I wore a real amethyst brooch, wouldn't I be the Marchioness of Cordelia Fitzgullard? Diana and I made rosehip necklaces together, but with Compared with the amethyst brooch, there is a world of difference! "So I took the pins and went outside to fantasize as much as I could, and put them back and put them away until Marilla came back. It was a long time, I suppose, though I think. I Wearing it across the street, I turned a big corner and hurried back. When I passed the small bridge on the 'Bibo Lake', I wanted to appreciate the pin again, so I took it off lightly. Under the sunlight , the pin was shining very brightly, so I leaned on the bridge and was fascinated by it. Unexpectedly, the pin slipped from my fingers and fell into the water, and it gradually sank with purple light, sinking to the "Bibo Lake" ' bottom of the lake. That's how it happened, Marilla." Marilla was furious when she heard that.Annie took out her most important pin and lost it, and she didn't feel any regret or conscience condemnation, and she didn't care about it and described the incident vividly. "Annie, you have caused such a big trouble, and you are still so indifferent, I'm really mad!" "I know that I will be punished sooner or later anyway, so I might as well hurry up and finish the punishment sooner, so that I can go on an outing." Anne said calmly. "Also mention outings! No outings are allowed! This is my punishment for you! Even this is not enough to calm the anger in my heart!" "What, you are not allowed to go on an outing!?" Annie jumped up and grabbed Marilla's hand. "Didn't you say it well? If I confess, I can go out. Oh, please. I want to go anyway, so I confess. You can punish me as much as you want, but please forgive me for this." Come on. Please, let me go, maybe I'll never get that ice cream again." Marilla violently shook off Annie's grip. "It's useless to beg, Annie, the same sentence, you are not allowed to go! Do you understand? I don't want to hear another word from you!" Anne knew very well that once Marilla made up her mind, ten horses would not be able to pull her back.Annie was disappointed and desperate. She clenched her fists and threw herself on the bed with a scream. She twisted her body desperately and cried endlessly. Marilla couldn't bear this, and quickly escaped from the room. "The child must be mad. A decent child would never do such a thing lightly. If not, she must be a bad child to the core. Oh! What is to be done? Or Rachel said It makes sense, now that I am riding a tiger, since I am already like this, I have no choice but to persevere, even now, regretting is useless.” In order to get rid of her troubles, Marilla worked desperately. There was nothing else to do, so she went to clean the balcony and the shelf where the milk was processed.There was no need for scrubbing, but Marilla couldn't bear it if she didn't do it. After lunch was ready, Marilla came to the stairs to greet Annie for dinner. After a while, Annie appeared at the handrail with tears streaming down her face, looking at Marilla sadly. "Annie, come down for lunch." "I don't want to eat lunch, Marilla," replied Anne, sobbing. "I can't eat anything. My chest hurts now. How can you eat when you are in pain? But if you regret punishing me, I will forgive you. I really can't eat anything." I can’t eat it, especially stewed meat and vegetables.” Marilla, who was strongly stimulated, had to go to the kitchen and lost her temper with Marshall.Marshall was embarrassed, but despite this, he still sympathized with Anne, but he had to defend Marilla.In this way, he was in a dilemma between Marilla and Annie, and he was splinted. "Anne's wrong, that's for sure. She shouldn't have taken the pin out in the first place, and she shouldn't be lying and talking nonsense now," said Marshall.But I saw the intact stewed meat and vegetables in the plate.He felt sorry for Anne again. "Marilla, that child is still very young, so innocent, lively, and lovely. She is so eager to go on an outing, but you insist on going, isn't it a bit too much?" "That's enough, brother. I think even that is too lenient for her, and besides, the child doesn't seem to understand at all how much trouble he has done, which is the most worrying thing. If Anne really If you admit your mistake, maybe you can still be saved. Brother, it’s not like you don’t understand, you can see what’s going on in your heart from your face.” "You're not right, that child is still young." Marshall weakly defended repeatedly. "It's all because you turned a blind eye to her before, closed your eyes, tolerated her again and again, and didn't discipline her properly." "Isn't it just asking you to discipline him now?" Marilla retorted. If Marilla scolded him like this normally, Marshall would never agree, but this time he didn't say a word.The lunch was very quiet, and the only one who had a good appetite was Curie Bute, who was hired as a helper, which angered Marilla even more. After lunch and tidying up, Marilla fermented the flour and fed the chickens again, only then did she remember that a small piece of the black-edged go-ahead shawl she wore when she came back from the Women's Association on Monday was torn. "Yes, mend it." Marilla said to herself. The shawl was placed in the box in the suitcase. Marilla picked up the shawl, and the sunlight that came in through the ivy by the window shone on something rolled up by the shawl. What was that, flashing Shining purple.what!It turned out to be an amethyst brooch!The metal clip of the pin got caught in the thread on the inside of the shawl. "Hey, what's going on here?" Marilla said to herself. "I thought it sank to the bottom of Barry's pool, but isn't it here? The pin was not taken out and lost. What the hell is that kid going to do? Is Glyn Gybrutz bewitched? It must have been on the wardrobe when I got the shawl out on Monday, and the pin got caught on it, that must be the case." Marilla took the pin and came to the east wing, but Anne, who was tired from crying, was sitting by the window dejectedly, staring outside. "Anne Jerry, I've found the pin. It's hanging on the black-edged shawl. I just found it," said Marilla calmly. "What's going on with those few sentences you made up this morning?" "Didn't you say you wouldn't let me out unless you confessed?" Anne replied wearily. "So I decided to make up some nonsense, thinking that if I did that, I could go on an outing. After going to bed last night, I began to think about how to confess, and tried to make up some sense, so as not to forget these nonsense. I repeated I practiced several times, but I still couldn't participate in the outing, and my efforts were ultimately in vain." Marilla couldn't help laughing, and at the same time, she felt that she was a little sorry for Anne. "Annie, I really gave up on you as a child. However, I understand that you are not lying. You should believe what Annie said. Of course, it is wrong to confess what you did not do. I blame me for this. Then Annie, if you If you can forgive me, I will forgive you too. From now on, I will love you more. Come on, hurry up and get ready for an outing." Annie jumped to her feet. "Marilla, is there still time?" "No problem, it's only two o'clock, and everyone has just assembled, and there is still an hour before afternoon tea. Wash your face, comb your hair, change into plaid clothes, and I have prepared snacks Many, I put them in the basket for you, and I asked Curie to prepare a carriage and let him take you there." "Great! Marilla." Annie shouted excitedly, and then flew to wash her face.Five minutes ago, she was still immersed in extreme sorrow, and she was still thinking how good it would be if she didn't come to this world, but now she is suddenly overjoyed, and she is so happy that she doesn't know what to do. That night, the exhausted Annie returned to Green Gaybruzzi with indescribable satisfaction. "Oh, Marilla, I'm in a great mood. I just learned that phrase today, and it was used by Melia Alice Bell. It pretty much expresses how I actually feel." ? "Everything is so wonderful and wonderful. The tea is very fragrant and delicious. After tasting the tea, Uncle Harmon Andreus prepared a boat for us in the 'Bibo Lake', let us each group of six people They took turns to ride around. Anne Andreus almost fell into the pool. Fortunately, the uncle grabbed her clothes quickly with his eyesight. How nice I should be, isn't it very romantic to almost drown, and tell others about it from time to time, how exciting it is. "In addition, I also ate ice cream. Heh! The taste can't be described in words. Anyway, it's delicious." That night Marilla told Marshall all the facts as she sewed. "I made a mistake, and this is a good lesson," Marilla concluded frankly. "However, I can't help laughing when I think of Anne's confession. The child is really incomprehensible in some ways, but I think she will have something, don't you believe it? As long as there is With this child around, we won’t feel bored or lonely.”