L.M.M. Notes
The final 93 sheets of paper in the manuscript are comprised of Montgomery's alphanumeric Notes. As in the earliest sheets of the manuscript, the first third of these Note sheets include Anne of Green Gables material on the recto (front) of the sheet and other scrap material on the verso (back). The Notes pages below are numbered by sheet of paper, recto or verso side.
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7 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 ...
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820705 31 self-consciousness, eating his supper like a man whose heart and mind were alike on good terms with him. Nancy felt wretched – and at the same time ridiculously happy. It seemed the ...
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41697 24 and found herself in the yard of the Wright farm! Passing the house - the house where she had once dreamed of reigning as mistress ...
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18302 21 should paste himself up against the church door. Theodora would come out as usual, and he ...
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3574 6 fond of company and conversation. To be sure, when you have talked to nobody but yourself for nearly twenty years it is apt to grow ...
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146359 12 main road in a different direction, but this “back lane” furnished a short cut and his children always went to school that way. The Old Lady shrank hastily back behind a ...
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667124 15 in a dream. Crooked Jack was delving vigorously in the garden; ordinarily the Old Lady did not talk much with Crooked Jack, for she disliked his weakness for gossip; but now ...
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247238 21 in the beech hollow. “His daughter! And she might have been my daughter,” murmere murmured the Old Lady. “Oh, if I could only know her and love her – and perhaps ...
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28947 38 time a more insistent voice than pride spoke to her soul – and for the first time the Old Lady listened to it. It was ...
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24 85000 54 forgot the reception the Old Lady gave her; but, being wise in her day and generation, she left her card, she saying that if ...
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141112 60 60. Presently she resolutely put Andrew Cameron out of her mind. It was desecration to ...
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11959 68 she might pinch and contrive. Old Lady Lloyd worried quite absurdly over this, and it haunted her like a spectre until the ...
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6127908 85 closet. Into the Old Lady’s white face came a sudden faint stain of color, as if a rough hand had struck her cheek. “Yes, I’ve ...
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13281 90 victimized him. Andrew Cameron had not quite done this; he had meant well enough by his uncle at first; and what he had finally done ...
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21147 38 101 manse, came running down the slope from the direction of the Old Lloyd place. Teddy’s freckled face was very pale. “Oh, Miss Gray,” he ...
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40141004 95 Nothing could give him greater pleasure than to grant grant his dear cousin Margaret's request – he only wished it involved more trouble on his ...
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138. 92 hands with him, for Sylvia’s sake she sat down in the chair he offered. But for no living human being’s sake could this determined Old ...
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136 94 her ticket thought Old Lady Lloyd looked uncommonly white and peaked – “as if she hadn’t slept a wink or eaten a bite for a ...
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21536 24. “What a delicious thing he is playing! He has quite a gift for the violin. But how can he play such a thing as that ...
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19534 22 along the path where the red and golden maple leaves were falling very softly, one by one. The Reverend Andrew Stephen Leonard heard it, ...
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99539 27 grandfather, it isn’t Abel’s fault. I came over here on purpose to play, because I thought you had gone to the harbor. I have come ...
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547 35 reach her before the end. Her body was taken home to be buried beside her mother in the little Lends Carmody churchyard. Mr. Leonard wished ...
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911549 37 her very spirit again. From that moment the soul of the old man was knit to the soul of the child, and they loved each ...
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560 48 school she could not and would not be held responsible if he learned more there than arithmetic and Latin. “What do you know of Naomi Clark to like or ...
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570 57 except Mr. Leonard, who went to expostulate with Naomi, and, as Rachel Janet said, for his pains got her door shut in his face. But ...
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578 091 65 on the mysteries of the Trinity. “Christ died for you, Naomi. He bore your sins in His own body on the cross.“ “We bear ...
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581 68 of many a soul, were naught save idle, empty words to Naomi Clark. In his anguish of mind Stephen Leonard gasped ...
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5880 75 poignancy. But on the dying woman’s face was only a strange relief as if some dumb, long-hidden pain had at last won to the ...
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289591 78 forgive my baby if she’d lived, no matter how bad she was, or what she did. The minister told me that but I couldn’t ...
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14400 2 going to bring her out here as soon I can, never saying a word. I’ll fetch her though the spruce lane, ...
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19413 15 “with no advantages and no education,“ said Mrs. Adair scornfully, not understanding that wisdom and knowledge are two entirely ...
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23418 20 sea sparkling and crinkling down at the foot of the green slope, he reflected with satisfaction that all was in perfect ...
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43491 36 with a rich dusky sort of darkness, suggestive of the bloom on purple plums, or the glow of deep red apples among bronze leaves. ...
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44629 48 tiful deeds to admire; but – she wound her arm about his neck and laid her cheek against his - “there ...
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10607 12 sat down on the bench beneath the window. “There’s Marthy Blair with the Garland baby,“ said Robert Lawson to Pa. “I’d like to ...
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1924 33 “As if there was going to be a funeral in the house,“ sniffed Peggy. Peggy and I were up in the south-west ...
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206908 47 contents feverishly about her person. Rings, three broaches, a locket, three chains and a watch all went on – any way and any ...
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200004 41. When Mr. Malcolm MacPherson had gone, after an hour of useless pleading, Aunt Olivia came up to us, pale and prim and ...
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38188 29 Her engagement ring she did wear – it was a rather “loud“ combination of engraved gold and opals. Sometimes we caught her ...
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182148 23 carpet. “I picked these for you in the river field, Nillie,“ he said. “Where will I be getting something to stick ...
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174759 15 Malcolm MacPherson as a real, live man, instead of a nebulous ‘party of the second part’ in the marriage ceremony?“ queried Peggy, ...
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170012 11 until Mr. Malcolm MacPherson comes. But it will not be before September, at the earliest. There will be so much to do. You ...
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165981 6 have told us more about him than did Aunt Olivia’s voice when she pronounced his name. We knew, as if it had been proclaimed ...
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78180 3 growled Thomas. He detests Emmeline Strong, and always did. “She’s that, all right,“ I agreed, “and that is just ...
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147[??]4 21 poking and prying into things while Jane was asleep. The minute she clapped eyes on Prissy she suspected something. It ...
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80166 25 myself and slipped out. Luckily my kitchen was on the off side of the house, but I was a ...
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81098 33 I saw a twinkle in his eye. “Thomas, go over and bring our little ladder over here,“ I said. Thomas forgot he was ...
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While Nancy looked back only over the narrow gap that empty years make. “You haven’t changed much yourself, Nancy,“ she said, looking admiringly at Nancy’s trim figure, in the nurse’s uniform she had donned ...
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“I guess you are better off as you are,“ said Louisa[.] “Oh, I don’t know.“ Nancy looked up at the white house on the hill again. “I have an awfully good time out of ...
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3 Dear friends were we and hand in hand we went Down the green lane where sunshine thickly lay, The soft low voices of the woods were blent, A drowsy cow-bell tinkled far away, ...
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3 Had fought the battle of his native land Bravely and well; the slender boyish form Was ever in the thickest battle storm; His was the dauntless spirit all to dare, Duty or danger ...
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47 Notes as the heart of a diamond. K8 —which, with Anne and Diana, happened about once in a ...
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49 Notes V8 A She should look at him, that red-haired Shirley girl with the little pointed ...
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50 Notes "ackshually never seen anything like it— it was so white, with awful little red spots ...
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52 Notes what. L8. Mrs. Rachel shook her head, as much as to say if she were only at the head of the ...
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56 Notes I took the smallpox and died and I was buried under those poplar trees in the graveyard and ...
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63 Notes H9. The stars in their courses fight against me, Marilla. Diana and I are ...
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65 Notes dull and poky and never seems to have a good time. R9 I'm going round by ...
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69 Notes E10 But it’s a terrible temptation, Matthew. Even when I turn my back on it I ...
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73 Notes U10. And we had fruit cake and pound cake and dogh doughnuts and two kinds ...
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76 Notes Z10. with the air of producing the last shot in her locker, A11. It would ...
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78 Notes the mirth of wood elves came from every quarter. H11 ; and when Mr. Phillips gave ...
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80 Notes N11. stifling a giggle with an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed ...
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90 Notes G12 And Mrs. Thomas’ father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with ...
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92 Notes remorseful for all the times I’d talked in school and drawn pictures of him on ...
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94 Notes W12 setting a particularly well-balsamed twig afloat. X12: Diana’s mother had found out ...
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96 Notes a kindred spirit. G13 Excitement hung around Anne like a garment, shone in her eyes, ...
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98 Notes up together into something unutterably sweet and enchanting. O13 A minister mightn't mind my red hair ...
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100 Notes. W13. If I am killed you are to have my pearl-bead ring. X13 Diana would probably have fallen hair heir to the pearl-bead ring then and there. Y13 —except Ruby Gillis who ...
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102 Notes I14 as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain — J14 when she pronounces my name I feel instinctively that she's spelling it with an ...
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104 Notes the other girls wore. T14 that surely could not be objected to as ...
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109 Notes for the first time in twenty years, J15 Though tonight it struck me she was growing ...
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113 respects. A16. Diana alone of outsiders knew the fatal secret, but she promised solemnly never to tell and it may be stated here and now that she kept her word. B16. And I ...
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115 of years ago, but romance is not appreciated now. M16. It was a September evening and all the gaps and clearings in the woods were brimmed up with ruby ^sunset light. Here and ...
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117 Notes little smoke-blue mists curled curled through the valleys and floated off from the hills. R16 again it ...
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121 Notes L17 new pieces to be practised for the Sunday School choir; M17. ...
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123 Notes course I know it wasn't really necessary but flounces are so stylish this fall and Josie Pye has flounces ...
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125 Notes lucky. I'm not superstitious and I know it can make no difference. But still I wish it ...
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127 Notes C18 slowly deepening from her pallid lustre to burnished silver, D18 and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers ...
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129 Notes the murmur of the sea sounding through it and the darkling cliffs beyond like grim guardians ...
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131 Notes the homelights of Avonlea twinkling beyond, were the best and dearest hours in the whole week. S18 ...
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133 Notes in the homestead garden in her bridal days and for which Matthew had always had ...
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135 Notes come here to question and sympathize and talk about it. M19. And even in winter I can come ...
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137 Notes S19. There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over honey-sweet ...
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