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Chapter 32 - (VERSO)

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but the multiplication tables kept all his facts firmly in their proper places!

When we went were assigned to our rooms Miss Stacy had to leave us. Jane and I sat together and Jane was so composed I envied her. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)X17(end superscript) I wondered if I looked as I felt. Then a man and if they could hear my heart thumping clear across the room. Then a man came in and began distributing the English examination sheets. My hands grew cold then and my head fairly whirled around as I picked it up. Just one awful moment – Diana, I felt exactly as I did (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)4 years ago(end superscript) when I asked Marilla if I might stay at Green Gables – and then everything cleared up in my mind and my heart began to beat beating again – I

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note X17
No need of the multiplication table for good steady sensible Jane!


PHOTO ANNOTATION

a yellowed paper with a script title reading

"assigned to our rooms": Montgomery preserved the — intimidating — timetable for her "Matriculation Examination into Prince of Wales College and Normal School July 1893." The hopeful students completed three full days of exams in six subjects: English, History, Arithmetic, Geography and Agriculture, Geometry and Algebra, and Latin. As she completed each exam, she wrote "down" next to it. At the bottom, when she finished, she wrote "Hurrah! Hurrah!! Hurrah!!!" (Blue Scrapbook, p. 8; Imagining Anne, p. 22).
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