Chapter 1

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company, though dear knows if they were there’d be enough of them. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)Note K(end superscript) To be sure, they seem contented enough; but then I suppose they’re used to it. A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.”

With this Mrs. Rachel stepped out of the lane into the backyard of Green Gables. Very green and neat (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)and precise(end superscript) was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and on the other with prim Lombardies. Not a stray stick or stone was to be seen. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)Note L(end superscript) Privately Mrs. Rachel was of the opinion that Marilla Cuthbert swept that yard as often as she swept her house. One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt.

LMM Note K:
I'd ruther look at people[.]

LMM Note L:
for Mrs. Rachel would have seen it if there had been. Privately she