The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: history when it was a storybook instead. I had never realized
until that moment, Marilla, that what I was doing was deceitful.
I was shocked. I cried bitterly, and asked Miss Stacy to forgive
me and I'd never do such a thing again; and I offered to do
penance by never so much as looking at Ben Hur for a whole week,
not even to see how the chariot race turned out. But Miss Stacy
said she wouldn't require that, and she forgave me freely. So I
think it wasn't very kind of her to come up here to you about it
after all."
"Miss Stacy never mentioned such a thing to me, Anne, and its
only your guilty conscience that's the matter with you. You have
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