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Chapter 1 - (VERSO)

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him to think of hurrying Ludovic Speed, and he knew that Theodora Dix could be depended on to do her part. The comedy would not be dull, whatever its outcome.

The curtain rose on the first act after prayer meeting on the next Thursday night. It was bright moonlight when the people came out of church, and everyone everybody saw it plainly. Arnold Sherman stood upon the steps close to the door, and Ludovic Speed leaned up against a corner of the graveyard fence, as he had done for years. The boys said he had worn the paint off that particular place. Ludovic knew of no reason why he

 


TEXT ANNOTATION

This verso page features material from the first story in Chronicles of Avonlea, "The Hurrying of Ludovic," which was originally published in May of 1905 in Canadian Magazine.