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The punishment she disliked most was that on Saturday afternoon, instead
of being allowed to go out, she was sent to her room in disgrace. She
was sitting doleful by a window, neglecting the task assigned her, when
Milly came in. Milly was one of the larger girls who went out as a
seamstress.
"You kept in, ain't you?" she said, sitting down and beginning to make
buttonholes.
Anne nodded.
"What's come over you?" Milly asked. "You don't act like the same girl
you used to be. Why, you're downright bad."
Anne smiled knowingly. "That I am," she agreed.
"How come?" Milly inquired.
Anne hesitated, then she poured out the whole story. 'She wanted so much
to go back to Miss Drayton. And didn't Milly think she was 'most bad
enough now?'
Milly threw back her head and laughed till she cried.
"Oh, you Anne! you Anne!" she exclaimed. At last she got breath enough
to explain that Emma had only said that because she was provoked. It was
not true. Anne would not be sent away. Indeed, there was nowhere to send
her. Miss Farlow took charge of her and would keep her because there was
no one else to care for her. She would stay there till she was large
enough to go out and work for herself, as Milly did.
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