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Chapter 21

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Oh, Marilla, don’t tell me if you have a spark of Christian pity, don’t tell me that I must go down and wash the dishes after this. I’ll wash them when the minister and his wife are gone but I cannot ever look Mrs. Allan in the face again. Perhaps she’ll think I tried to poison her. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)D13(end superscript) But the liniment isn’t poisonous. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)E13 (end superscript)Won’t you tell Mrs. Allan so, Marilla?”

“Suppose you jump up and tell her so yourself,” said a merry voice.

Anne flew up to find Mrs. Allan standing by her bed, surveying her with laughing eyes.

“My dear little girl, you mustn’t cry like this,” she said, genuinely disturbed by Anne’s tragic face. “Why, it’s all just a funny mistake that anybody might make.”

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note D13
Mrs. Lynde says she knows an orphan girl who tried to poison her benefactor. (begin strikethrough)But(end strikethrough)

LMM Note E13
It's meant to be taken internally – but not in cakes.