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Chapter 36 - (VERSO)

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of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism. All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years. X18  

Chapter 36.
The Glory and the Dream

On the morning when the final results of all the examinations XXXXXXXXXXX were to be posted on the bulletin board at Queen’s, Anne and Jane walked down the street together. Jane was smiling and happy; the examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)soaring(end superscript) ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note X18
—each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.

[Montgomery's Notes in this chapter range from Y18-C19;Notes pages 131-132.]


AUDIO ANNOTATION

REFERENCE
 Kate Scarth, Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies and Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture at U.P.E.I. and editor of the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, reads the title of this chapter, "The Glory and the Dream."

TEXT ANNOTATION

"The glory and the dream": From Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," end of stanza IV, ll.56-57: "Whither is fled the visionary gleam? / Where it is now, the glory and the dream?" These lines lament (in part) the brevity of childhood and the ability to perceive and to live with the certainty of the eternal all around.