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Chapter 15

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his name that’s written up on the porch wall with Julia Bell’s and a big “Take Notice’ over them?”

“Yes,” but I said Diana tossing her head, “but I’m sure he doesn’t like Julia Bell so very much. I’ve heard him say he studied the multiplication table by her freckles.”

“Oh, don’t speak about freckles to me,” implored Anne. “It isn’t delicate when I’ve got so many. But I do think that writing take-notices up on the wall about the boys and girls is the silliest ever. I should just like to see anybody dare to write my name up with a boy’s. Not, of course,” she hastened to (begin superscript)P8(end superscript) add, “that anybody would.”

“Nonsense,” said Diana. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)Q8(end superscript) “It’s only meant as a joke. And don’t you be too sho sure your name won’t ever be written up. Charlie Sloane is dead gone on you. He told his mother that you

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note P8
Anne sighed. She didn't want her name written up. But it was a little humiliating to know that there was no danger of it.

LMM Note Q8
whose black eyes and glossy tresses had played such havoc with the hearts of Avonlea schoolboys that her name figured on the porch walls in half a dozen take-notices.


TEXT ANNOTATION

"P8": While this note is tucked above the word "add" here in the manuscript, the text of the note appears after Anne's comment "Not, of course, that anybody would," in the published version of the novel.