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Chapter 21

328 2368

puffed sleeves were too worldly for a minister’s wife, but I didn’t make any such uncharitable remark, Marilla, because I know what it is to long for puffed sleeves. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)N12(end superscript) They are going to board with Mrs. Lynde until the manse is ready.”

If Marilla, in going down to Mrs. Lynde’s that evening, was actuated by any motive save her avowed one of returning the quilting frames she had borrowed the preceding winter, it was an amiable weakness shared by most of the Avonlea people. Many a thing Mrs. Lynde had lent, sometimes never expecting to see it again, came home that night in charge of the borrower’s thereof. A new minister, was a lawful object and moreover a minister with a wife, was a lawful object of curiosity in a quiet little country settlement

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note N12
Besides, she's only been a minister's wife for a little while, so one should make allowances, shouldn't they?


TEXT ANNOTATION

"368": Note that the first digit here was clearly a 2 corrected to a 3, in pencil. And the first "3" is stroked through so heavily that it almost resembles a "1."

TEXT ANNOTATION

"a lawful object of curiosity": Montgomery is careful, after her marriage and fame, not to focus so much attention on (another) minister's wife. Later in the Anne series, Philippa Gordon's life with her minister husband is never given in any detail.