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and found herself in the yard of the Wright farm!

Passing the house – the house where she had once dreamed of reigning as mistress – Nancy’s curiosity overcame her. Four Winds was not in The place was not in view of any other near house. She deliberately went up to it, intending – low be it spoken – to peep in at the kitchen window. But seeing the door wide open, she went to it instead and halted on the step, looking about her keenly.

The kitchen was certainly pitiful in its disorder. The floor had apparently not been swept for a fortnight. On the bare deal table were the remnants of Peter’s dinner, a meal that could not have been very tempting at


TEXT ANNOTATION

From "The End of a Quarrel."

TEXT ANNOTATION

"Four Winds": Interesting that Montgomery edits out the place name here, even before she, years later, made the place "Avonlea" when adding the story to Chronicles of Avonlea.