Chapter 1 - (VERSO)
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stood at the door outside with the most amiable expression I could assume, but Peter merely sauntered away without a glance in my direction. It would be some comfort to my vanity pride vanity if I could believe it was on account of rankling spite or pride. But the honest truth, dear Weezy, is that it looked to me exactly as if he never thought of it. He was more interested in talking about the hay crop with Oliver Sloane–who, by the way, is more Oliver Sloaneish than ever.”
“If you feel as you said you did the other night, why didn’t you go and speak to him?” Louisa wanted to know.
“But I don’t feel that way
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From "The End of a Quarrel," also featured in Chronicles of Avonlea (1912).
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"Oliver Sloaneish": When Montgomery later added Charlie Sloane to the Avonlea community, she already had a well-developed sense of what she meant by this "Sloaneishness."