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Speaker 1: Chapter thirty three of Anne of Green Gables. This is
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Speaker 1: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Chapter thirty three,
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Speaker 1: the hotel concert. Put on your white Organdy by all means,
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Speaker 1: Anne advised Diana. Decidedly they were together in the east
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Speaker 1: gable chamber. Outside it was only twilight, a lovely yellowish
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Speaker 1: green twilight, with a clear blue, cloudless sky. A big
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Speaker 1: round moon slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver,
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Speaker 1: hung over the haunted wood. The air was full of
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Speaker 1: sweet summer sounds, sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, far away voices,
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Speaker 1: and laughter. But in Anne's room, the blind was drawn
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Speaker 1: and the lamp lighted for an important toilet was being made.
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Speaker 1: The east gable was a very different place from what
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Speaker 1: it had been on that night four years before, when
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Speaker 1: Anne had felt its bareness penetrate to the marrow of
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Speaker 1: her spirit with its inhospitable chill. Changes had crept in
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Speaker 1: Marilla conniving at them, resignedly until it was as sweet
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Speaker 1: and dainty a nest as a young girl could desire.
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Speaker 1: The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink
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Speaker 1: silk curtains of Anne's early visions had certainly never materialized,
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Speaker 1: but her dreams had kept pace with her growth, and
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Speaker 1: it is not probable she lamented them. The floor was
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Speaker 1: covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened
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Speaker 1: the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were
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Speaker 1: of pale green art muslin. The walls hung not with
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Speaker 1: gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty apple
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Speaker 1: blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given
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Speaker 1: Anne by missus Allen. Miss Stacy's photograph occupied the place
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Speaker 1: of honor, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping
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Speaker 1: fresh flowers on the bracket under it. Tonight, a spike
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Speaker 1: of white lilies faintly perfumed the room, like the dream
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Speaker 1: of a fragrance. There was no mahogany furniture, but there
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Speaker 1: was a white painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned
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Speaker 1: wicker rocker, a toilet table befrilled with white muslin, a
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Speaker 1: quaint gilt framed mirror with chubby pink cupids and purple
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Speaker 1: grapes painted over its arched top that used to hang
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Speaker 1: in the spare room, and a low white bed. Anne
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Speaker 1: was dressing for a concert at the White Sands Hotel.
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Speaker 1: The guests had got it up in aid of the
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Speaker 1: Charlottetown Hospital and had hunted out all the available amateur
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Speaker 1: talent in the surrounding districts to help it along. Bertha
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Speaker 1: Sampson and Pearl Clay of the White Sands Baptist Choir
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Speaker 1: had been asked to sing a duet. Milton Clark of
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Speaker 1: Newbridge was to give a violin solo, Winnie Adela Blair
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Speaker 1: of Carmody was to sing a Scotch ballad, and Laura
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Speaker 1: Spencer of Spencervale and Anne Shirley of Avonlea were to recite.
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Speaker 1: As Anne would have said at one time, it was
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Speaker 1: an epoch in her life and she was deliciously a
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Speaker 1: thrill with the excitement of it. Matthew was in the
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Speaker 1: Sea Seventh Heaven of gratified pride over the honor conferred
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Speaker 1: on his Anne, and Marilla was not far behind, although
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Speaker 1: she would have died rather than admit it, and said
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Speaker 1: she didn't think it was very proper for a lot
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Speaker 1: of young folks to be gadding over to the hotel
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Speaker 1: without any responsible person with them. Anne and Diana were
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Speaker 1: to drive over with Jane Andrews and her brother Billy
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Speaker 1: in their double seated buggy, and several other Avonlea girls
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Speaker 1: and boys were going too. There was a party of
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Speaker 1: visitors expected out from town, and after the concert a
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Speaker 1: supper was to be given to the performers. Do you
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Speaker 1: really think the organdy will be best queried? Anne anxiously.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's as pretty as my blue flowered muslin,
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Speaker 1: and it certainly isn't so fashionable, but it suits you
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Speaker 1: ever so much better, said Diana. It's so soft and
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Speaker 1: frilly and clinging. The muslin is stiff and makes you
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Speaker 1: look too dressed up, but the Oregondy seems as if
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Speaker 1: it grew on you. Anne sighed and yielded. Diana was
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Speaker 1: beginning to have a reputation for notable taste in dressing,
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Speaker 1: and her advice on such subjects was much sought after.
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Speaker 1: She was looking very pretty herself on this particular night,
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Speaker 1: and a dress of the lovely wild rose pink, from
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Speaker 1: which Anne was forever debarred, but she was not to
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Speaker 1: take any part in the concert, so her appearance was
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Speaker 1: of minor importance. All her pains were bestowed upon Anne,
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Speaker 1: who she vowed, must, for the credit of Avonlea, be
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Speaker 1: dressed and combed and adorned to the Queen's taste. Pull
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Speaker 1: out that frill a little more so here, let me
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Speaker 1: tie your sash now for your slippers. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: braid your hair in two thick braids and tie them
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Speaker 1: half way up with big white bows. No, don't pull
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Speaker 1: out a single curl over your forehead. Just have the
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Speaker 1: soft part. There is no way you do. Your hair
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Speaker 1: suits you so well, Anne, and missus Allan says you
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Speaker 1: look like a madonna when you part it. So I
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Speaker 1: shall fasten this little white house rose just behind your ear.
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Speaker 1: There was just one on my bush, and I saved
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Speaker 1: it for you. Shall I put my pearl beads on?
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Speaker 1: Asked Anne. Matthew brought me a string from town last week,
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Speaker 1: and I know he'd like to see them on me.
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Speaker 1: Diana pursed up her lips, put her black head on
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Speaker 1: one side critically, and finally pronounced in favor of the beads,
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Speaker 1: which were thereupon tide around Anne's slim, milk white throat.
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Speaker 1: There's something so stylish about you, Anne, said Diana with
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Speaker 1: unenvious admiration. You hold your head with such an air.
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Speaker 1: I suppose it's your figure. I am just a dumpling.
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Speaker 1: I've always been afraid of it, and now I know
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Speaker 1: it is so well. I suppose I shall just have
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Speaker 1: to resign myself to it. But you have such dimples,
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Speaker 1: said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty vivacious face so
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Speaker 1: near her own lovely dimples like little dnse and cream.
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Speaker 1: I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple
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Speaker 1: dream will never come true. But so many of my
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Speaker 1: dreams have that I mustn't complain, am I all ready? Now?
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Speaker 1: Already assured Diana, as Marilla appeared in the doorway, a
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Speaker 1: gaunt figure with grayer hair than of yore, and no
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Speaker 1: fewer angles, but with a much softer face. Come right
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Speaker 1: in and look at our elocutionist, Marilla. Doesn't she look lovely?
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Speaker 1: Marilla emitted a sound between a sniff and a grunt.
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Speaker 1: She looks neat and proper. I like that way of
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Speaker 1: fixing her hair. But I expect she'll ruin that dress
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Speaker 1: driving over there in the dust and do with it.
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Speaker 1: And it looks most too thin for these damp nights.
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Speaker 1: Organdy's the most unserviceable stuff in the world anyhow, And
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Speaker 1: I told Matthew so when he got it. But there's
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Speaker 1: no use in saying anything to Matthew nowadays. Time was
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Speaker 1: when he would take my advice, but now he just
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Speaker 1: buys things for Anne regardless. And the clerks at Carmody
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Speaker 1: know they can palm anything off on him. Just let
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Speaker 1: them tell him a thing is pretty and fashionable, and
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Speaker 1: Matthew plunks his money down for it. Mind you keep
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Speaker 1: your skirt clear of the wheel, Anne, and put your
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Speaker 1: warm jacket on. Then Marilla stalked downstairs, thinking proudly how
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Speaker 1: sweet Anne looked with that one moonbeam from the forehead
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Speaker 1: to the crown, and regretting that she could not go
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Speaker 1: to the concert herself to hear her girl recite. I
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Speaker 1: wonder if it is too damp for my dress, said
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Speaker 1: Anne anxiously. Not a bit of it, said Diana, pulling
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Speaker 1: up the window blind. It's a perfect night and there
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Speaker 1: won't be any do look at the moonlight. I'm so
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Speaker 1: glad my window looks east into the sunrising, said Anne,
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Speaker 1: going over to Diana. It's so splendid to see the
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Speaker 1: morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through
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Speaker 1: those sharp fur tops. It's new every morning, and I
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Speaker 1: feel as if I washed my very soul in that
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Speaker 1: bath of earliest sunshine. Oh, Diana, I love this little
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Speaker 1: room so dearly. I don't know how I'll get along
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Speaker 1: without it when I go to town next month. Don't
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Speaker 1: speak of your going away tonight, begged Diana. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to think of it. It makes me so miserable,
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Speaker 1: and I do want to have a good time this evening.
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Speaker 1: What are you going to recite? Anne? And are you nervous?
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Speaker 1: Not a bit I've recited so often in public. I
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Speaker 1: don't mind at all. Now I've decided to give the
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Speaker 1: maiden's vow. It's so pathetic. Lara Spencer's going to give
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Speaker 1: a comic recitation, but I'd rather make people cry than laugh.
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Speaker 1: Will you recite if they encore you? They won't dream
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Speaker 1: of encoring me, scoffed Anne, who was not without her
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Speaker 1: own secret, hopes that they would and already visioned herself
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Speaker 1: telling Matthew all about it at the next morning's breakfast table.
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Speaker 1: There are Billy and Jane. Now I hear the wheels
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Speaker 1: come on. Billy Andrews insisted that Anne should ride on
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Speaker 1: the front seat with him, so she unwillingly climbed up.
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Speaker 1: She would have much preferred to sit back with the girls,
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Speaker 1: where she could have laughed and chattered to her heart's content.
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Speaker 1: There is not much of either laughter or chatter in Billy.
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Speaker 1: He was a big, fat, stolid youth of twenty, with
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Speaker 1: a round, expressionless face and a painful lack of conversational gifts.
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Speaker 1: But he admired Anne immensely, and was puffed up with
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Speaker 1: pride over the prospect of driving to White Sands with
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Speaker 1: that slim upright figure beside him. Anne, by dint of
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Speaker 1: talking over her shoulder to the girls and occasionally passing
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Speaker 1: a sop of civility to Billy, who grinned and chuckled
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Speaker 1: and never could think of any reply until it was
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Speaker 1: too late, contrived to enjoy the drive. In spite of all,
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Speaker 1: it was a night for enjoyment. The road was full
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Speaker 1: of buggies, all bound for the hotel, and laughter silver
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Speaker 1: clear echoed and re echoed along it. When they reached
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Speaker 1: the hotel. It was a blaze of light from top
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Speaker 1: to bottom. They were met by the ladies of the
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Speaker 1: concert committee, one of whom took Anne off to the
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Speaker 1: performer's dressing room, which was filled with the members of
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Speaker 1: a Charlottetown symphony club, among whom Anne felt suddenly shy
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Speaker 1: and frightened and countrified. Her dress, which in the East
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Speaker 1: Gable had seemed so dainty and pretty, now seemed simple
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Speaker 1: and plain. Too simple and plain, she thought, among all
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Speaker 1: the silks and laces that glistened and run her, what
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Speaker 1: were her pearl beads compared to the diamonds of the big,
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Speaker 1: handsome lady near her? And how poor her one wee
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Speaker 1: white rose must look beside all the hat house flowers
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Speaker 1: the others wore. Anne laid her hat and jacket away
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Speaker 1: and shrank miserably into a corner. She wished herself back
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Speaker 1: in the white room at Green Gables. It was still worse.
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Speaker 1: On the platform of the big concert hall of the hotel,
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Speaker 1: where she presently found herself. The electric lights dazzled her eyes,
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Speaker 1: the perfume and hum bewildered her. She wished she were
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Speaker 1: sitting down in the audience with Diana and Jane, who
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Speaker 1: seemed to be having a splendid time away. At the back,
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Speaker 1: she was wedged in between a stout lady in pink
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Speaker 1: silk and a tall, scornful looking girl in a white
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Speaker 1: lace dress. The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely
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Speaker 1: around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely
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Speaker 1: sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud,
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Speaker 1: and the white lace girl kept talking audibly to her
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Speaker 1: next door neighbor about the country bumpkins and rustic bells.
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Speaker 1: In the audience, languidly anticipating such fun from the displays
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Speaker 1: of local talent on the program, Anne believed that she
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Speaker 1: would hate that white lace girl to the end of life.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for Anne, a professional elocutionist was staying at the
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Speaker 1: hotel and had consented to recite. She was a lithe,
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Speaker 1: dark eyed woman and a wonderful gown of shimmering gray
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Speaker 1: stuff like woven moonbeams, with gems on her neck and
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Speaker 1: in her dark hair. She had a marvelously flexible voice
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Speaker 1: and wonderful power of expression. The audience went wild over
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Speaker 1: her selection. Anne forgetting all about herself and her troubles
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Speaker 1: for the time listened with rapt and shining eyes, But
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Speaker 1: when the recitation ended, she suddenly put her hands over
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Speaker 1: her face. She could never get up and recite after that.
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Speaker 1: Never had she ever thought she could recite Oh, if
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Speaker 1: she were only back at Green Gables at this unpropitious moment,
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Speaker 1: her name was called somehow, Anne, who did not notice
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Speaker 1: the rather guilty little start of surprise the white lace
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Speaker 1: girl gave, and would not have understood this subtle compliment
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Speaker 1: implied therein if she had got on her feet and
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Speaker 1: moved dizzily out to the front. She was so pale
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Speaker 1: that Diana and Jane down in the audience clasped each
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Speaker 1: other's hands in nervous sympathy. Anne was the victim of
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Speaker 1: an overwhelming attack of stage fright. Often as she had
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Speaker 1: recited in public, She had never before faced such an
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Speaker 1: audience as this, and the sight of it paralyzed her
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Speaker 1: energi's com completely. Everything was so strange, so brilliant, so bewildering,
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Speaker 1: the rose of ladies in evening dress, the critical faces,
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Speaker 1: the whole atmosphere of wealth and culture about her. Very
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Speaker 1: different was this from the plain benches at the debating club.
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Speaker 1: Filled with the homely, sympathetic faces of friends and neighbors.
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Speaker 1: These people, she thought would be merciless critics. Perhaps like
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Speaker 1: the white lace girl, they anticipated amusement from her rustic efforts.
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Speaker 1: She felt hopelessly, helplessly, ashamed and miserable. Her knees trembled,
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Speaker 1: her heart fluttered, A horrible faintness came over her. Not
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Speaker 1: a word could she utter, and the next moment she
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Speaker 1: would have fled from the platform, despite the humiliation which
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Speaker 1: she felt must ever after be her portion if she
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Speaker 1: did so. But suddenly, as as her dilated, frightened eyes
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Speaker 1: gazed out over the audience, she saw Gilbert blythe away
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Speaker 1: at the back of the room, bending forward with a
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Speaker 1: smile on his face, a smile which seemed to Anne
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Speaker 1: at once triumphant and taunting. In reality, it was nothing
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Speaker 1: of the kind. Gilbert was merely smiling with appreciation of
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Speaker 1: the whole affair in general, and of the effect produced
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Speaker 1: by Anne's slender, white form and spiritual face against a
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Speaker 1: background of palms. In particular, Josie Pye, whom he had
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Speaker 1: driven over, sat beside him, and her face certainly was
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Speaker 1: both triumphant and taunting. But Anne did not see Josie
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Speaker 1: and would not have cared if she had. She drew
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Speaker 1: a long breath and flung her head up proudly, courage
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Speaker 1: and determination tingling over her like an electric shock. She
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Speaker 1: would not fail. Before Gilbert blythe he should never be
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Speaker 1: able to laugh at her, never never. Her fright and
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Speaker 1: nervousness vanished, and she began her recitation, her clear, sweet
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Speaker 1: voice reaching to the farthest corner of the room without
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Speaker 1: a tremor or a brake. Self possession was fully restored
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Speaker 1: to her, and in the reaction from that horrible moment
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Speaker 1: of powerlessness, she recited as she had never done before.
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Speaker 1: When she finished, there were bursts of honest applause. Anne,
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Speaker 1: stepping back to her seat, blushing with shyness and delight,
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Speaker 1: found her hand vigorously clasped and shaken by the stout
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Speaker 1: lady in pink silk. My dear, you did splendidly, she puffed.
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Speaker 1: I've been crying like a baby. Actually I have there.
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Speaker 1: They're uncoring you. They're bound to have you back. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I can't go, said Anne, confusedly. But yet I must
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Speaker 1: or Matthea, he will be disappointed, he said. They would
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Speaker 1: encore me. Then don't disappoint Matthew, said the pink lady, laughing, smiling, blushing,
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Speaker 1: limpid eyed Anne tripped back and gave a quaint, funny
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Speaker 1: little selection that captivated her audience still further. The rest
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Speaker 1: of the evening was quite a little triumph for her.
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Speaker 1: When the concert was over, the stout pink lady, who
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Speaker 1: was the wife of an American millionaire, took her under
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Speaker 1: her wing and introduced her to everybody, and everybody was
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Speaker 1: very nice to her. The professional elocutionist, Missus Evans, came
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Speaker 1: and chatted with her, telling her that she had a
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Speaker 1: charming voice and interpreted her selections beautifully. Even the white
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Speaker 1: lace girl paid her a languid little compliment. They had
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Speaker 1: supper in the big, beautifully decorated dining room. Diana and
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Speaker 1: Jane were invited to partake of this also, since they
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Speaker 1: had come with Anne, but Billy was nowhere to be found,
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Speaker 1: having decamped in mortal fear of some such invitation. He
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Speaker 1: was in waiting for them with the team. However, when
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Speaker 1: it was all over and the three girls came merrily
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Speaker 1: out into the calm, white moonshine radiance, Anne breathed deeply
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Speaker 1: and looked into the clear sky beyond the dark boughs
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Speaker 1: of the firs. Oh, who is good to be out
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Speaker 1: again in the purity and silence of the night. How
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Speaker 1: great and still and wonderful everything was, with the murmur
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Speaker 1: of the sea sounding through it, and the darkling cliffs
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Speaker 1: beyond like grim giants guarding enchanted coasts. Hasn't it been
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Speaker 1: a perfectly splendid time, sighed Jane as they drove away.
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Speaker 1: I just wish I was a rich American and could
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Speaker 1: spend my summer at a hotel and wear jewels and
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Speaker 1: low necked dresses and have ice cream and chicken salad
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Speaker 1: every blessed day. I'm sure it would be ever so
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Speaker 1: much more fun than teaching school. Anne, your recitation was
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Speaker 1: simply great, although I thought at first you were never
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Speaker 1: going to begin. I think it was better than missus Evans's.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, don't say things like that, Jane, said Anne quickly,
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Speaker 1: because it sounds silly. It couldn't be better than missus Evans's,
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Speaker 1: you know, for she is a professional and I'm only
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Speaker 1: a schoolgirl with a little knack of reciting. I'm quite
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Speaker 1: satisfied if the people just liked mine pretty well, I've
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Speaker 1: a compliment for you, Anne, said Diana. At least I
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Speaker 1: think it must be a compliment because of the tone
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Speaker 1: he said it. In part of it was. Anyhow, there
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Speaker 1: was an American sitting behind Jane and me, such a
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Speaker 1: romantic looking man with coal black hair and eyes. Josie
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Speaker 1: Pye says he is a distinguished artist, and that her
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Speaker 1: mother's cousin in Boston is married to a man that
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Speaker 1: used to go to school with him. Well, we heard
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Speaker 1: him say, didn't we Jane? Who is that girl on
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Speaker 1: the platform with the splendid Titian hair? She has a
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Speaker 1: face I should like to paint there now, Anne, But
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Speaker 1: what does Titian hair mean being interpreted? It means plain red,
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Speaker 1: I guess, laughed Anne. Titian was a very famous artist
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Speaker 1: who liked to paint red haired women. Did you see
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Speaker 1: all the diamonds those ladies wore, sighed Jane. They were
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Speaker 1: simply dazzling. Wouldn't you just love to be rich? Girls?
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Speaker 1: We are rich, said Anne staunchly. Why we have sixteen
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Speaker 1: years to our credit, and we're happy as queen's and
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Speaker 1: we've all got imaginations more or less. Look at that sea, girls,
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Speaker 1: all silver and shadow and vision of things. Not seen,
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Speaker 1: we couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more. If if we
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Speaker 1: had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds, you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: change into any of those women if you could. Would
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Speaker 1: you want to be that white lace girl and wear
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Speaker 1: a sour look all your life as if you'd been born,
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Speaker 1: turning up your nose at the world. Or the pink lady,
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Speaker 1: kind and nice as she is, so stout and short
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Speaker 1: that you'd really no figure at all, Or even missus
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Speaker 1: Evans with that sad, sad look in her eyes. She
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Speaker 1: must have been dreadfully unhappy sometime to have such a look.
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Speaker 1: You know you wouldn't, Jane Andrews. I don't know exactly,
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Speaker 1: said Jane, unconvinced. I think diamonds would comfort a person
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Speaker 1: for a good deal. Well, I don't want to be
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Speaker 1: any one but myself, even if I go uncomforted by
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Speaker 1: diamonds all my life, declared Anne. I'm quite content to
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Speaker 1: be Anne of Green Gables with my string of pearl beads.
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Speaker 1: I know Matthew gave me as much love with them
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Speaker 1: as ever went into Madame The Pink Ladies Jewels end
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Speaker 1: of chapter thirty three. The Hotel concert