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Chapter 36 - (VERSO)

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so, without trying to break it gently, and whatever you do don’t sympathize with me. Promise me this, Jane.”

Jane promised solemnly; but, as it happened, there was no necessity for such a promise. When they went up the entrance steps of Queen’s they found the hall full of boys who were carrying Gilbert Blythe around on their shoulders and yelling at the tops of their voices, “Hurrah for Blythe, Medallist!”

For a moment Anne felt one sickening pang of defeat and disappointment. So she had failed and Gilbert had won! Well, Matthew would be sorry—he had been so sure they she would win.

And then!

Somebody called out,

“Three cheers for Miss Shirley, winner of the Avery!”



PHOTO ANNOTATION

small newsprint notice that says

"winner of the Avery!": Such an achievement would have surely made any one of the Charlottetown newspapers. For example, this notice from June 3, 1897, in the The Daily Examiner shares a notice about an Island student succeeding in Nova Scotia.
Island Newspapers