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Chapter 29

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“Yes, and, oh, it’s so good to be back,” said Anne joyously. “I could kiss everything, even to the clock. Marilla, a broiled chicken! You don’t mean to say you cooked that for me!”

“Yes, I did,” said Marilla. “I thought you’d be hungry after such a drive and need something real appetizing. Hurry and take off your things, and we’ll have supper as soon as Matthew comes in.” Z16

After supper Anne sat before the fire between Matthew and Marilla, and gave them a full account of her visit.

“I’ve had a splendid time,” she concluded happily, “and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.”

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note Z16
I’m glad you’ve got back, I must say. It’s been fearful lonesome here without you, and I never put in four longer days.”


TEXT ANNOTATION

In this clip from the L.M. Montgomery Institute's CD-ROM, The Bend in the Road (2000), Elizabeth Epperly reads from Montgomery's journals at the University of Guelph Archives in 1999.
Description: Harp music plays gently in the background while a voice explains the arrival of the novel. [Betsy Epperly] "One of the most wonderful moments in L.M. Montgomery’s life was the day that her first novel, Anne of Green Gables, arrived from the publishers, the L.C. Page Company. And here we see the journal entry where she records that moment: Saturday, June 20, Cavendish, PEI. She starts it off 'Today has been, as Anne herself would say ‘an epoch in my life.'" A sequence of images includes the first edition cover of Anne and the inside inscription, the hand-written journal pages, a quick image of Anne in partial profile, the 10 journals stacked on a table, and the final image of the open journal pages.
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