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Chapter 17

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and ‘thee’ seem so much more romantic than ‘you.’ Diana gave me a lock of her hair and I’m going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck all my life. Please see that it is buried with me for I don’t believe I’ll live very long. Perhaps when she sees me lying (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)cold and (end superscript)dead before her Mrs. Barry may feel remorse for what she has done and will let Diana come to my funeral.”

“I don’t think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne,” said Marilla unsympathetically.

The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on



TEXT ANNOTATION

"a lock of her hair": In the 19(begin superscript)th(end superscript) century, hair was considered sacred to memory. People made wreaths and jewelry from hair or kept locks of hair in rings, lockets, and brooches (like Marilla's). Anne knew she could not afford a locket, but she could afford to sew a small bag to wear around her neck. The pathos of this little bag is as hilarious as it is touching.