When she pronounces my name I feel INSTINCTIVELY that she's spelling it with an E.We had recitations this afternoon.

I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite 'Mary, Queen of Scots.' I just put my whole soul into it.

Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, 'Now for my father's arm,' she said, 'my woman's heart farewell,' just made her blood run cold." "Well now, you might recite it for me some of these days, out in the barn," suggested Matthew.
"Of course I will," said Anne meditatively, "but I won't be able to do it so well, I know.

It won't be so exciting as it is when you have a whole schoolful before you hanging breathlessly on your words.

I know I won't be able to make your blood run cold." "Mrs.Lynde says it made HER blood run cold to see the boys climbing to the very tops of those big trees on Bell's hill after crows' nests last Friday," said Marilla.