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In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things;

and over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time.

His face just looks like one of those long, narrow stones in the graveyard, doesn't it? 'Sacred to the memory' ought to be written on his forehead.

Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures?

Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

Is there laughter in your face yet, Rilla? I hope so. The world will need laughter and courage more than ever in the years that will come next. I don't want to preach—this isn't any time for it.

Lawful heart, did any one ever see such freckles? And hair as red as carrots!

A child who was more or less under-nourished -- not in body, but in soul. More of a moonbeam than a sunbeam.

I've no doubt, enjoying himself same as ever. Just like a man.

The other day I found this statement in a book. 'Her voice would have made the multiplication table charming!' I thought of it when I heard yours. I didn't believe it before, but I do now.

By a Free Methodist!" groaned Mrs. Frederick — as if to have been married by an imprisoned Methodist would have been a shade less disgraceful.

It was nearly as long as a minister's and so poetical.

John Meredith paced up and down the parlour for a few minutes; then he went back to his study and sat down. But he did not return to his German theology.

It's not the first time I've been glad," retorted Marilla. "You do like to rub things in, Matthew Cuthbert.

Well, we could have a jolly funeral, you know, said Dan. We looked at him in such horror that Dan hastened to apologize.

1906 Anne of Green Gables is rejected by four publishers. Montgomery puts the manuscript away in a hatbox.

At least it removed her dread of being laughed at, though the deeper hurt of an outraged ideal remained.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously;

almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.

Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness

Thereupon Anne held her tongue so obediently and thoroughly that her continued silence made Marilla rather nervous, as if in the presence of something not exactly natural.

Whenever he got stuck for an idea, he would bang the Bible and shout very bitterly, 'Curse ye Meroz.' Poor Meroz got thoroughly cursed that day, whoever he was, Mrs. Dr. dear, said Susan.

when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.