Chapter 15 - (VERSO)
361 hide her twitching face; but it was no use: she collapsed on the nearest chair and burst into such a hearty and unusual peal of laughter that Matthew, crossing the yard outside, halted in amazement. When had he heard Marilla laugh like that before?
“Well, Anne Shirley,” said Marilla, as soon as she could speak, “if you must borrow trouble, for pity’s sake, borrow it handier home. I should think you had an imagination, sure enough.”
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"361": This should be page 261. Perhaps Montgomery numbered this page in haste.
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"borrow trouble": A common saying, perhaps inspired by that oft-quoted passage of Matthew 6:34: "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."