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Notes - (VERSO)

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all. Prissy gave one scared, appealing look at Emmeline and then said, “No, thank you, not to-night.”

Stephen just turned on his heel and went. He was a high-spirited fellow and I knew he would never overlook a public slight like that. If he had had as much sense as he ought to have had he would have known that Emmeline was at the bottom of it; but he didn’t, and he began going to see Althea Gillis, and they were married the next year. Althea was a rather rather nice girl, though giddy, and I think she and Stephen were happy enough together. In real life things are often like that[.]

Nobody even tried to go with Prissy again. I suppose they were


TEXT ANNOTATION

From "The Courting of Prissy Strong."

[As in the manuscript pages, Montgomery's Notes were, at first, written on scrap paper. The first 45 pages of her Notes, corresponding with Chapters 1 through 15, have material from various short stories and poems on their verso sides. After that, the Notes continue front-to-back.]