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Chapter 28 - (VERSO)

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Mr. and Mrs. Barry being away. Here Ruby Gillis had su succumbed to hiy hysterics, and was left to recover from them as best she might, while Jane and Diana flew through the Haunted Wood and across the brook to Green Gables. There they had found nobody either, for Marilla had gone to Carmody and Matthew was making hay in the back field.

“Oh, Anne,” gasped Diana, fairly falling on the former’s neck and weeping with relief and delight, “Oh, Anne – we thought – you were – drowned – and we felt like murderers – because we had made – you be – Elaine. And Ruby is in hysterics – oh, Anne, how did you escape?”

“I climbed up on one of the piles,” ex-



PHOTO ANNOTATION

soft pencil sketch of a man crumpled on a riverbank near the trees

"we thought – you were – drowned": Gustave Doré's 1867 illustration of "The Remorse of Lancelot" juxtaposes well with the remorse of the Avonlea girls.