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Chapter 34 - (VERSO)

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I don’t know them and they don’t know me, Oh and probably don’t want to know me particularly. Oh, it’s lonesome!”

It was lonesomer still when Anne found herself alone in her bedroom that night at twilight. She was not to board with the other girls, who all had relatives in town to take pity on them. Miss Josephine Barry would have liked to board her but Beechwood was so far from the Academy that it was out of the question; so Miss Barry hunted up a boarding house, assuring Matthew and Marilla that it was the very place for Anne.

“The lady who keeps it is a reduced gentlewoman,” explained Miss Barry.



PHOTO ANNOTATION

ink sketch of a skinny young girl looking out a second story window in a sparsely furnished room

"when Anne found herself alone in her bedroom": Hilton Hassel's illustration of Anne's first lonely night at the boardinghouse.