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Chapter 1 - (VERSO)

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There was a note of boyishness in the laughter.

“So it is,” he said, “but I had to get rid of the accumulated malice and spite of twenty years somehow. It’s all gone now, and I’ll be as amiable amiable as I know how. But since you have gone to the trouble of getting my supper for me, Nancy, you must stay and help me eat it. These strawberries look good. I haven’t had any this summer – been too busy to pick them.”

Nancy stayed. She sat at the head of Peter’s table and poured his tea for him. She talked to him wittily of the Avonlea people and the changes in their old set. Peter followed her lead with an apparent absence of

 



TEXT ANNOTATION

This passage is from the last paragraphs of the story "The End of a Quarrel," also featured in Chronicles of Avonlea (1912).