The affair of the amethyst brooch cured me of meddling with things that didn't belong to me.
"Anne," she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the spotless table and singing, "Nelly of the Hazel Dell" with a vigor and expression that did credit to Diana's teaching, "did you see anything of my amethyst brooch?
" Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual.
Mistawis black and sullen for a week or two, then flaming in sapphire and turquoise, lilac and rose again, laughing through the oriel, caressing its amethyst islands, rippling under winds soft as silk.
I remember we used to meet By an ivied seat, And you warbled each pretty word With the air of a bird; And your voice had a quaver in it, Just like a linnet, And shook, as the blackbird's throat , With its last big note; And your eyes, they were green and grey ,, Like an April day, But lit into amethyst When I stooped and kissed; And your mouth, it would never smile , For a long, long while, Then it rippled all over with laughter
