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Chapter 21

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inveigled into the party only goodness and Anne knew how. He had been in such a state of shyness and nervousness that Marilla had given him up in despair, but Anne took him in hand so successfully that he now sat at the table in his best clothes and white collar and talked to the minister not uninterestingly. A13

All went merry as a marriage bell until Anne’s layer cake was passed. Mrs. Allan, having already been helped to a bewildering variety, declined it. But Marilla, seeing the disappointment on Anne’s face, said smilingly,

“Oh, you must take a piece of this, Mrs. Allan. Anne made it on purpose for you.”

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note A13
He never said a word to Mrs. Allen but perhaps that was not to be expected[.]


TEXT ANNOTATION

"his best clothes and white collar": Matthew's white collar was a boiled, starched, detachable collar. Small studs attached them to shirt. Collars could be laundered separately from shirts (and more frequently).

TEXT ANNOTATION

"merry as a marriage bell": Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812), III.21.188.