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years; they wouldn’t make up for missing this one.

D7. On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and one [sic] Wednesday that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves.

E7. But when a minister says a thing in the pulpit you just have to believe it.

F7. You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”