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lace of the year. She was happy, and eager, interested; there were lessons to be be learned and honours to be won; delightful books to read; (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)L17(end superscript) pleasant Saturday afternoons at the manse with Mrs. Allan; and then, almost before Anne realized it, spring had come again to Green Gables and all the world was abloom once more.

Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood-cuts and meadow by-ways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months. Even Anne and Gilbert

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new pieces to be practised for the Sunday School choir;