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Chapter 27

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so feelingly about them that it touched my heart. I wanted to buy something from him to help him in such a worthy object. Then all at once I saw the bottle of hair dye. The pedlar said it was warranted to dye any hair a beautiful (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)raven(end superscript) black and wouldn’t wash off. In a trice I saw myself with beautful beautiful (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)raven(end superscript) black hair and the temptation was irresistible. But the price of the bottle was seventy-five cents and I had only fifty cents left out of my chicken money. I think the pedlar had a very kind heart, for he said that, seeing it was me, he’d sell it for fifty cents So I and that was just giving it away. So I bought it, and as soon as he was gone I came up here and applied it as the with an old hair-brush as the


TEXT ANNOTATION

"seventy-five cents": Since Marilla gives 10 cents a week in collection at church, 75 cents would have seemed ridiculously extravagant.