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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1 Notes. A. , fringed with alders and jewel weed ladies' eardrops and B. from brooks and children up, C ­­— she had knitted twenty sixteen of them as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to ...
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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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Notes 2 J. , as shy and silent as his son after him, K. I'd ruther look at people[.] L. for Mrs. Rachel would have seen it if there had been. Privately she M. ...
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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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3 Notes. well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard-of innovation. R. This had been done without her advice being asked and must perforce be disapproved. S. – the mail-man brought it from 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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4 Notes. W. if so be's as he ever had a grandfather which is doubtful. X – if they ever were children which is hard to believe when one looks at them. Y or ...
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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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5 Notes I do love to imagine I'm nice and plump with dimples in my elbows. G1. fringed with blooming wild cherry trees and slim white birches, H1 — because when you are imagining ...
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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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6 Notes no scope for imagination then, would there? K1 I can stop when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult. L1 and did not expect him to do any keep ...
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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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7 Notes not far away and birds singing in your branches you could grow, ^couldn't you? But you can't where you are. I know just exactly how you feel, little trees.' I felt sorry ...
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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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8 Notes R1. nor had Matthew done anything astonishing. S1. planted years ago by an eccentric old farmer. T1 accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of. ...
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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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9 Notes master like that around when I was born then. X1 I'm going to shut my eyes tight. Y1 But I always have to open them for all when we get I think ...
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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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10 Notes it was all a dream. Then I'd pinch myself to see if it was real – until suddenly I remembered that even supposing it was only a dream I'd better go on ...
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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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11 Notes H2. –at least, I have of late years. When I was young I used to imagine it was Geraldine, but I like Cordelia better now.” I2 asked Marilla with another rusty smile ...
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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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12 Notes But one can dream just as well in them as in lovely trailing ones, with frills around the neck, that is one consolation." M2. Anne's white face and big eyes appeared over ...
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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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13 Notes Q2. To bed went Matthew. And to bed, when she had put her dishes away, went Marilla, frowning most resolutely. And upstairs, in the east gable, a lonely, heart-hungry, friendless child cried ...
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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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14 Notes U2 But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts[.] V2 and a comfortable consciousness pervading her soul that she had fulfilled ...
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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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15 Notes dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again. Z2 May I call it – let me see ...
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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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16 Notes D3. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make your mind up firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up firmly[.] E3 Don't ...
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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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17 Notes imaginings. Just you stick to bald facts. Begin at the beginning. Where were you born and how old are you?" "I was eleven last March." said Anne, H3. Aren't Walter and Bertha ...
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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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18 Notes believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk skunk cabbage. I suppose my father could have been a good man even if he had ...
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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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19 Notes L3. Her sensitive little face flushed suddenly scarlet and embarrassment sat on her brow. M3. Anne gave herself up to a ^silent rapture over the shore road, and Marilla guided the sorrel ...
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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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20 Notes P3 She knew Mrs. Peter Blewett only by sight as a small shrewish faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones. But she had heard of her. "A terrible ...
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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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21 Notes S3 not daring to make any speculations regarding the spelling thereof. T3. Well, if I take you you'll have to be a good girl, you know—good and smart and respectful. I'll expect ...
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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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21 Notes S3. Marilla Cuthbert, you're fairly in for it. Did you ever suppose you'd see the day when you'd be adopting an orphan ^girl? It's surprising enough; but not so surprising as that ...
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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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22 Notes V3. Marilla looked horrified astonishment. W3 "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is. X3. after I get into bed I'll imagine out a real nice prayer to say always. ...
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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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23 Notes Z3. I'm really extremely grateful for them. A4 "I could have made it much more flowery if I'd had a little more time to think it over. B4 set the candle firmly ...
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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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24 Notes E4. It's a dreadful feeling. Please tell me." F4, unable to find any excuse for deferring her explanation longer, G4. I couldn't said Marilla grimly. "Do you never imagine things different from ...
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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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25 Notes I4. I've been trying to imagine it all out—her edging a little nearer all the time until she was quite close to Him; and then He would look at her and put ...
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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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21 Notes M4 I never really supposed I would but so many of my loveliest dreams have come true all at once that perhaps this one will, too. N4. Marilla was as fond of ...
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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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22 Notes Q4 But don't let Mrs. Barry hear you talking about your Katie Maurices and your Violettas or she'll think you tell stories." "Oh, I won't. I couldn't talk of them to everybody. ...
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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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23 Notes and gold, and I am reclining ^gracefully on it. I can see my reflection in that m splendid big mirror hanging on the wall. I am tall and regal, clad in a ...
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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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24 Notes nowhere in particular isn't it?" She bent forward, kissed her reflection affectionately, and betook herself to the open window. T4. Mrs. Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for ...
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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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25 Notes W4 "I don't suppose you are any more surprised than I am myself," said Marilla, "I'm getting over my surprise now." X4 And I must say I like her myself—although I admit ...
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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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26 Notes A5 But Anne continued to face Mrs. Rachel undauntedly, head up, eyes blazing, hands clenched, passionate indignation exhaling from her like an atmosphere. B5 slammed it until the tins on the porch ...
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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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27 Notes that would be the most effective language for that kind of child. E5 —to the efficiency of which all Mrs. Rachel's own children could have born smarting testimony— F5 quite oblivious of ...
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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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28 Notes J5. I'm sorry I've vexed you; but I'm glad I told her just what I did. K5. After each meal Marilla carried a well-filled tray to the east gable and brought it ...
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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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29 Notes should do if Anne did not give in. O5 her eyes fixed on the sunset sky and P5 —and I've disgraced the dear friends, Matthew and Marilla, who have let me stay ...
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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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30 Notes T5 Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection. She had also an uneasy feeling that she ought to scold Anne for apologizing so well; but then, that ...
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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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31 Notes W5. —and then I'll fly over to Mrs Lynde's garden and set the flowers dancing — and then I'll blow go with one great swoop over the clover field— X5. I don't ...
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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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32 Notes A6 Don't stare at people and don't fidget. I shall expect me [corrected to "you" in the published novel] to tell me the text when you come home." B6 Avonlea little girls ...
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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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33 Notes D6 Anne ha Her wreath having faded Anne had discarded it in the lane, so Marilla was spared the knowledge of that for a time. E6 There was a long row of ...
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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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34 Notes well be[.] G6. I didn't think he was very a bit interesting. The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn't any enough imagination. H6 especially about the minister's sermons and ...
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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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35 Notes slipped unheeded to the floor. L6 It would be the most tragical disappointment of my life." "Now, don't get into a fluster. And I do wish you wouldn’t use such long words. ...
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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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36 Notes O6. She reads entirely too much"–this to Marilla, as the little girls went out—"and I can't prevent her for her father aids and abets her. She's always poring over a book. I'm ...
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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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37 Notes T6 When Marilla and Anne went home, Diana went with them as far as the log bridge. The two little girls walked with their arms about each other. At the brook they ...
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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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38 Notes a spring called that. A dryad is a sort of grown-up fairy I think." X6 unbraided hair streaming behind her in a torrent of brightness. Y6 and – and I don't mind ...
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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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39 Notes B7 I got that name out of a book Diana lent me. That was a thrill thrilling book, Marilla. The heroine had five lovers. ^I'd be satisfied with one, wouldn't you? She ...
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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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340 Notes 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 ...
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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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41 Notes. G7 She would have thought it rather sacrilegious to leave it off – as bad as forgetting her Bible or her collection dime. That amethyst brooch H7 It was an old-fashioned oval, ...
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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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42 Notes laid it in the china tray. But M7 determining to be just, N7 —although I'm not very certain what a block is. O7 I suppose she has lost it and is afraid ...
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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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[43 Notes] S7 It would be so much easier to imagine I was the Lady Cordelia if I had a real amethyst brooch on. Diana and I made necklaces of roseberries but what are ...
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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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44                              Notes it a food unsuited to crises of feeling. X7. The only cheerful thing about it was Jerry Buote, ...
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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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42 45                    Notes D8 Scrumptious is a new word I learned to-day. I heard Mary Alice Bell use it. Isn't it very expressive? E8. and ...
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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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46                      Notes G8. Anne thought those walks to and from school with Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. Going around by the ...
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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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48                       Notes P8. Anne sighed. She didn't want her name written up. But it was a little humiliating to know that there was no ...
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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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49B                            Notes passions from the hearts of small, imperfect mortals. Z8. Diana hadn't any the least idea what Anne meant but ...
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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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51 carrying matters with a rather high hand. But it would never do to say so to her. H8. "Tillie Boulter was in on her way home from school and told me about it." ...
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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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53 Notes of dark red and bronzy green. Q8 "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't ...
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54                                                    Notes very thing. U8. and a cooky to ...
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55                               Notes the wart with the pebble and then throw it away over your left shoulder at the time of ...
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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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57                                Notes told me to set it on the pantry shelf and cover it. I meant to cover it ...
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58                                      Notes and I fully intended to ask her when she came in if I'd give ...
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59                                          Notes Ross to think I was a ladylike little girl, even if I ...
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60                                        Notes us. Marilla turned red as fire but she never said a word She ...
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61+                                                 Notes 62 tears and stormier sobs! “Anne Shirley, when I ...
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63                                      Notes H9. The stars in their courses fight against me, Marilla. Diana and I are ...
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64                     Notes M9 Oh, this is wonderful! It's a ray of light which will forever shine on the darkness of a path severed from thee, ...
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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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66                                     Notes favourable reception. Anne was graciously pleased to accept it and rewarded the donor with a ...
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67                                        Notes as her loves. V9 with a toss of her long red braids, W9 ...
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68                                              Notes all right.” Matthew would have thought anyone who praised Anne ...
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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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70                                    Notes found at the bottom, embedded in melted grease, the next day by Marilla, who gathered ...
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71                                                Notes J10 all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy ...
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72                              Notes what to do for Minnie May. I'm real sorry I was ever cross with Mrs Hammond for having ...
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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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74 + 75.                                   Notes Your tongues going the whole blessed time, clickety clack. So I don't think you're ...
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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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77 Notes life and when the other girls talk about them in school I feel so out of it. You didn’t know just how I felt about it but you see Matthew did. Matthew ...
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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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79                                 Notes When he came to the line, "There’s another, not a sister," he looked right down at you." ...
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80                                      Notes N11. stifling a giggle with an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed ...
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981+ 87 Notes V11 Have you any imagination, Miss Barry? If you have, just put yourself in our place[.] W11 to Miss Marilla Cuthbert. Miss Marilla Cuthbert is a very kind lady who has ...
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88                                                  Notes come to town you visit you’re to visit ...
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89                                     Notes Lake of Shining Waters and D12. Headaches always left Marilla somewhat sarcastic. E12 I was ...
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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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91                                Notes against each other brought out the perspiration in beads on her forehead. The swoop of bats in ...
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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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93                                    Notes was undignified, and you must have some dignity about a minister, mustn’t you, Matthew? R12 ...
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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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[??]1 95                                                      Notes a feast for the eye ...
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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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97                                   Notes I know all the rules of etiquette, although I've been studying the rules given in the ...
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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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99                               Notes S13 Lauretta said she expected to be asked herself someday. I just gazed at her in awe[.] T13 ...
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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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101 Notes still I like him and I'm awfully sorry I ever criticized his prayers. I believe now he really does mean them only he has got into the habit of saying them as ...
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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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103                                    Notes. in the garret. Don't be alarmed if you hear me groaning. I have to groan ...
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104                                        Notes the other girls wore. T14 that surely could not be objected to as ...
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105+                                 Notes 106 "It'll be a real satisfaction to see that poor child wearing something decent for once. The ...
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107                                              Notes her mistake. I suppose she's trying to cultivate a spirit ...
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108                                             Notes C15 I don't like green Christmases. They're not green–they're just nasty ...
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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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110                                Notes M15. You've been thirteen for a month; so I suppose it doesn't seem such a novelty to ...
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111                                                Notes overcome it and now that I'm really thirteen perhaps ...
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112                                         Notes cessary. W15 who, being patient and wise and, above all, hungry, had dem ...
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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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114                              Notes G.16 You know the piles are just old tree trunks and there are lots of knots and old ...
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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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116                                     Notes I went to bed. But I repented of that and got up in the middle ...
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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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118 Notes dark men I saw after that, but I didn’t care much for any of them, and anyhow I suppose it’s too early to be looking out for him yet. W16. I was ...
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119                                             Notes world with a start and a sigh. C17 —the ferns and ...
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120                           Notes. doubt she says a great many very true things. I17 Ruby says she will only teach for two years after ...
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121                                           Notes L17 new pieces to be practised for the Sunday School choir; M17. ...
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122                               Notes. will gobble him up and then we’ll be left and have to turn to and break in another ...
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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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124                                 Notes elopements and mysteries. Miss Stacy sometimes has us write a story for training in composition but she ...
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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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126 Notes her home from the post-office every after noon began seriously to wonder if he hadn't better vote Grit at the next election. Anne then B18. That night Anne, who had wound up ...
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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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128 G18 languidly anticipating "such fun" from the displays of local talent on the programme. H18 —who did not notice the rather guilty little start of surprise the white-lace girl gave and would not ...
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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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130                                           Notes. M18 —if it was luck. I don't believe it was any such ...
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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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132 Notes A19 The woods were all gloried through with sunset and the rosy warm splendor of it streamed down through the hill gaps of the west. B19 Outside the Snow Queen was mistily ...
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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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134                                      Notes almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our ...
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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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136                     Notes. O19. They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odour ...
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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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