[Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery]@TWC D-Link bookAnne Of Green Gables CHAPTER XXIII 9/20
Mercy me, the child has gone and fainted!" It was quite true.
Overcome by the pain of her injury, Anne had one more of her wishes granted to her.
She had fainted dead away. Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.
Anne's ankle was broken. That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white-faced girl was lying, a plaintive voice greeted her from the bed. "Aren't you very sorry for me, Marilla ?" "It was your own fault," said Marilla, twitching down the blind and lighting a lamp. "And that is just why you should be sorry for me," said Anne, "because the thought that it is all my own fault is what makes it so hard.
If I could blame it on anybody I would feel so much better.
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