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Chapter 38 - (VERSO)

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there is no need for it. I’m heart-glad over the very thought of staying at dear Green Gables. Nobody could love it as you and I do—so we must keep it.

“You blessed girl!” said Marilla, yielding. “I feel as if you’d given me new life. I guess I ought to stick out and make you go to college—but I know I can’t, so I ain’t going to try. I’ll make it up to you, though, Anne.”

When it was rumored became noised abroad in Avonlea that Anne Shirley had given up the idea of going to college and intended to stay home and teach there was a good deal of discussion on it over it. Most of the good folks, (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)not knowing about Marilla’s eyes,(end superscript) thought she was foolish. Mrs. Allan did not. She told Anne so in approving words that brought


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a dirt path lined with stately old, wide tree trunks and canopied over by theirbranches

"I'm heart-glad over the very thought of staying": One of Montgomery's many "bends in the road" on Lover's Lane.
Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph, L.M. Montgomery Collection