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Chapter 36 - (VERSO)

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Matthew, patting her hand. “Just mind you that—rather than a dozen boys. Well, now, I guess it wasn’t a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl—my girl—my girl that I’m proud of.”

He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)B19(end superscript) Anne always remembered the silvery peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note B19
Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope.