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Chapter 2

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(begin strikethrough)”(end strikethrough)Oh, here we are at the bridge. (begin superscript)X1(end superscript) I’m always afraid going over bridges So I shut my eyes. What a jolly  I can’t help imagining that, perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they’ll crumple up like a jack-knife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. (begin superscript)Y1(end superscript) What a jolly rumble it makes! I always like the rumble part of it. Isn’t it splendid there are so many things to like in this world? There, we’re over. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)Now I’ll look back.(end superscript) Good-night, dear Lake of Shining Waters. I always say good-night to the things I love just as I would to people.” Z1

When they had driven up the further hill and around the corner Matthew said,

“We’re pretty near home now. That’s Green Gables over—”

“Oh, don’t tell me,” she interrupted

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note X1
I'm going to shut my eyes tight.

LMM Note Y1
But I always have to open them for all when (begin strikethrough)we get(end strikethrough) I think we're getting near the middle. Because, you see, if the bridge did crumple up I'd want to see it crumple[.]

LMM Note Z1
I think they like it. That water looks as if it was smiling at me[.]