Notes - (VERSO)

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world with a start and a sigh.

C17 —the ferns and the satin leaves and the crackerberries —

D17 Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them into everything, does it?

E17 It’s perfectly appalling to think of being twenty, Marilla. It sounds so fearfully old and grown up.

F17 —that is, for the last six months, ever since Ruby and Jane began to talk of studying for the entrance.

G17. Not for worlds would Marilla have told Anne just what Miss Stacy had said about her; that would have been to pamper vanity.

H17. Mrs. Lynde isn’t exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there’s no