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L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Manuscript Scan

Chapter 34 - (VERSO)

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one would be allotted to Queen’s, but the matter was settled at last, and at the end of the year the graduate who made the highest mark in English and English Literature would win the scholarship—two hundred and fifty dollars a year for four years at Redmond College. No wonder that Anne went to bed that night with tingling cheeks!

“I’ll win that scholarship if hard work can do it,” she resolved. “Wouldn’t Matthew be proud if I got to be a B.A.? Oh, it’s ~~lovely~~ delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them _^^{—that’s the best of it.} Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one _^^glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

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TEXT ANNOTATION

"you see another one _^^glittering higher up still": An echo of Pope's lines about the Alps from Chapter 31, and an echo of "The Fringed Gentian," a poem by an unknown author that Montgomery pasted into her scrapbook. "The Alpine Path" inspired Emily Byrd Starr and the name of Montgomery's 1917 autobiography, The Alpine Path. Its inspiring lines:
"Then whisper blossom, in thy sleep,
How may I upward climb
The Alpine path so hard, so steep, That leads to heights sublime?
How may I reach that far-off goal
Of true and honored fame,
To write upon its shining scroll
A woman's humble name?"

Montgomery's allusions are often, like this one, layered and meaningful.