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Chapter 15

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talking about your teacher in that way again,” said Marilla sharply. “You don’t go to school to criticize the master. I guess he can teach you something and it’s your business to learn. And I want you to understand right off that you are not to come home with telling tales about him. That is something I won’t encourage.(begin strikethrough)”(end strikethrough) I hope you were a good girl.”

“Indeed I was,” said Anne (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)comfortably.(end superscript) “It wasn’t as hard as you might imagine, either. I sit with Diana. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)N8|M8 (end superscript)There I’m dreadfully far behind the others. They’re all in the fifth book and I’m only in the fourth. I feel that it’s a kind of disgrace. But there’s not one of them has such an imagination as I have and I soon found that out. We had reading and geography and Canadian History

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note M8
There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinner time. It's so nice to have a lot of little girls to play with. But of course I like Diana best and always will. I adore Diana.

LMM Note N8
Our seat is right by the window and we can look down to the Lake of Shining Waters.


PHOTO ANNOTATION

a red-rust coloured book cover with the Royal Readers title stamped on its cover with an ornate border

"the fifth book": Anne is referring to the series of primers used by schools in the late 19(begin superscript)th(end superscript) and early 20(begin superscript)th(end superscript) centuries. On P.E.I., students typically read from the Royal Readers series that featured extracts from great writers and poets like Shakespeare and Tennyson, as well as general stories from history that foregrounded the British Empire. Here, the cover of the "first reader."
Toronto Public Library