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Chapter 24

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that your fall off the Barry roof hasn’t injured your tongue at all.”

Chapter 24.
Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get up a Concert.

It was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school—a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)delicate(end superscript) mists (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)I14(end superscript) –amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of(begin subscript) ^(end subscript)(begin superscript)many-stemmed(end superscript) the woods to run crisply through. The Birch Path was a canopy of yellow and the ferns were sere and brown all along it. There was a tang in the (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)very(end superscript) air that inspired the hearts of small maidens tripping, unlike snails, swiftly and willingly to school; and it was jolly to be back again at the little brown desk beside Diana, with Ruby Gillis

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note I14
as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain—

[Montgomery's Notes in this chapter range from I14-R14;Notes pages 102-103.]



TEXT ANNOTATION

"unlike snails": A laughing allusion to Shakespeare’s As You Like It, (II.vii.145-46), describing humorously the second of the seven ages of man: "And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel / And shining morning face, creeping like snail / Unwillingly to school."