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Chapter 16 - (VERSO)

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in her eyes, got Diana’s hat and went with her as far as the Barry yard fence. Then she wept all the way back to Green Gables, where she (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)C9(end superscript) got tea ready for Matthew and Jerry, with all the zest gone out of the performance.

The next day was Sunday and as the rain poured down in torrents from dawn to dusk, Anne did not stir abroad from Green Gables. Monday afternoon Marilla sent her down to Mrs. Lynde’s on an errand. In a very short space of time Anne came flying back up the lane, with tears rolling down her cheeks.D9

“Whatever has gone wrong now, Anne?” queried Marilla in doubt and dismay. “I do hope you haven’t gone and been saucy to Mrs. Lynde again.”
E9
Anne sat up, tragedy personified.

“Mrs. Lynde was up to see Mrs. Barry to-day and Mrs. Barry was in an awful state,” she wailed. “She says that I set Diana drunk Saturday and sent her home in a disgraceful condition.

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note C9
sorrowfully put the remainder of the raspberry cordial back into the pantry and

LMM Note D9
Into the kitchen she dashed and flung herself face downwards on the sofa in an agony.

LMM Note E9
No answer from Anne save more tears and stormier sobs!

"Anne Shirley, when I ask you a question I want to be answered. Sit right up this very minute and tell me what you are crying about."


PHOTO ANNOTATION

the corner of a small kitchen with a rocking chair and a brown leather, one-armed sofa

"on the sofa" [in D9:]: Country kitchens of the time would have a sofa where the farmer waiting for a meal could rest, and sometimes for a hired worker to sleep at night. This same kind of sofa was kept in the Macneill kitchen.
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