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Chapter 37

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and Charlie Sloane. Jane and Ruby are going to teach and they have both got schools—Jane at Newbridge and Ruby at some place up west.”

“Gilbert Blythe is going to teach too, isn’t he?”

“Yes”—briefly.

“What a nice looking young fellow he is,” said Marilla absently. “I saw him in church last Sunday and he seemed so tall and manly. He looks a lot like his father did at the same age. John Blythe was a nice boy. We used to be real good friends, he and I. People called him my beau.”

Anne looked up with swift interest. “Oh, Marilla—and what


TEXT ANNOTATION

"place up west": Meaning the western side of the Island. The Island's "tilt" in the Gulf of St. Lawrence means those who live on the western side are from "up west" and those from the eastern side are from "down east" (those from "out west" would be from other areas of Canada). Montgomery lived up west when she taught in Bideford, P.E.I., from 1894–1895.