Chapter 6
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“I think you’d better learn to control that imagination of yours, Anne, if you can’t distinguish between what is real and what isn’t,” said Marilla crossly. “Yes, you did hear me say just that and no more. It isn’t decided yet and perhaps we will conclude to let Mrs. Blewett take you after all. She certainly needs you much more than I do.”
“I’d rather go back to the asylum than go to live with her,” said Anne passionately. “She looks exactly like a a gimlet —like a gimlet.”
Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech.
“A little girl like you should be ashamed of talking so about a lady,” she said and a stranger,” she
TEXT ANNOTATION
"gimlet": A tool used for boring holes, with a cross-piece at one end and a sharp screw point at the other; Anne is obviously describing Mrs. Blewett as relentlessly harsh.