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Chapter 25 - (VERSO)

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little girls he had seen around her that evening—all gay in waists of red and blue and pink and white—and he wondered why Marilla always kept her so plainly and soberly dressed. gowned.

Of course, it must be all right. Marilla knew best and Marilla was bringing her up. Likely Probably some wise, inscrutal inscrutable motive was to be served thereby. But surely it would do no harm to let the child have one pretty dress—something like Diana Barry always wore. Matthew decided that he would give her one (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)T14(end superscript) Christmas was only a fortnight off. A nice new dress would be the very thing for a present. Math Matthew, with a sigh of satisfaction, put away his pipe and went to bed, while Marilla opened all the doors and aired the house.

The very next evening, Matthew

 

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LMM Note T14
that surely could not be objected to as an unwarranted putting in of his oar.