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Chapter 27 - (VERSO)

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Lynde, just the same who’d pick faults in the Angel Gabriel himself if he lived in Avonlea. Just the same, Anne has no business to leave the house like this when I told her she was to stay home this afternoon and look after things. I must say with all her faults I never found her disobedient or untrustworthy before and I’m real sorry to find her so now.”

“Well, now, I dunno,” said Matthew, (begin superscript)W15(end superscript) “Perhaps you’re judging her too hasty, Marilla. Don’t call her untrustworthy until you’re sure she has disobeyed you. Mebbe it can all be explained—Anne’s a great hand at explaining.”

“She’s not here when I told her to stay,” retorted Mailla Marilla. “I

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note W15
who, being patient and wise and, above all, hungry, had (begin strikethrough)dem(end strikethrough) deemed it best to let Marilla talk her wrath out unhindered, having learned by experience that she got through with whatever work was on hand much quicker if not delayed by untimely argument.