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Chapter 28 - (VERSO)

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the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination. That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday. Gilbert had called her “carrots” and had brought about her disgrace before the whole school. Her resentment, (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)J16(end superscript) was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly. She hated Gilbert Blythe! She would never forgive him.

“No,” she said coldly, “I shall never be friends with you, Gilbert Blythe.(begin strikethrough)”(end strikethrough) And I don’t want to be!”

“All right!” Gilbert sprang into his skiff with an angry colour in his cheeks. “I’ll never ask you to be friends again, Anne Shirley. And I don’t care either!”

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note J16
which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause,