Chapter 10

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you are a very vain little girl.”

“How can I be vain when I know I’m homely?” said protested Anne. “I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn’t pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I’m so sorry I pity it because it isn’t beautiful.”

“Handsome  is as handsome does,” quoted Marilla.

“I’ve had that said to me before but I have my doubts about it,” said Anne remarked skeptical Anne, sniffing at her narcissi. “Oh, aren’t these flowers sweet! It was lovely of Mrs. Lynde to give them to me. I have no hard feelings against