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

Chapter 36

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him, but he’s some better this while back and we’ve got a good hired man, so I’m hoping he’ll ~~kind~~ kind of rest and pick up. Maybe he will now you’re home. You always cheer him up.”

Anne leaned across the table and took Marilla’s face in her hands.

“You are not looking as well yourself as I’d like to see you, Marilla. You look tired. I’m afraid you’ve been working too hard. You must take a rest, now that I’m home. I’m just going to take this one day off to visit all the dear old spots _^^{and hunt up my old dreams} and then it will be your turn to be lazy while I do the work.”

Marilla smiled affectionately ay her girl.

“It’s not the work—it’s my head.

PHOTO ANNOTATION

sunny corner of a sewing room with a spinning wheel and a contraption for winding balls of yarn

"I'm afraid you've been working too hard." Much of Marilla's work — sewing, mending, knitting — would require healthy eyesight. Even the sunny sewing room at Green Gables (the same room at Green Gables Heritage House, pictured here) wouldn't help with these tasks.

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