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Chapter 35

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genius for friendship; girl friends she had in plenty; but she had a vague consciousness that masculine friendship might also be a good thing to round out one’s conceptions of companionship and furnish broader standpoints of judgment and comparison. Not that Anne could have put her feelings into just such clear definition. But she thought that if Gilbert had ever walked home with her from the train S18 they might have had many and merry and interesting conversations about the new world that was opening around them and their hopes and ambitions therein. Gilbert was a clever young fellow, with his own thoughts about things and a determination to get the best out of life (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)and put the best into it.(end superscript) Ruby Gillis told Jane Andrews that she didn’t understand half the things Gilbert Blythe said; he talked just like Anne Shirley did when she had a thoughtful

 

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over the crisp fields and along the ferny byways,