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Chapter 26 - (VERSO)

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“Perhaps after awhile I’ll get used to it, but I’m afraid concerts spoil people for every-day life existence. life. I suppose that is why Marilla disapproves of them. Marilla is such a sensible woman. It must be a great deal better to be sensible; but still, I don’t believe I’d really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic. Mrs. Lynde says there is no danger of my ever being one but you can never tell. I felt just now that I may grow up to be sensible yet. But perhaps that is only because I am tired.” L15

Eventually, however, Avonlea school slipped back into its old groove and took up its old interests. To be sure, the concert left traces. Ruby Gillis and Emma White, who had quarreled over a point of precedence in their

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note L15
I simply couldn't sleep last night for ever so long. I just lay awake and imagined the concert over and over again. That's one splendid thing about such affairs—it's so lovely to look back to them.