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Anne Of Green Gables

CHAPTER XXXIII
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We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

You wouldn't change into any of those women if you could.

Would you want to be that white-lace girl and wear a sour look all your life, as if you'd been born turning up your nose at the world?
Or the pink lady, kind and nice as she is, so stout and short that you'd really no figure at all?
Or even Mrs.Evans, with that sad, sad look in her eyes?
She must have been dreadfully unhappy sometime to have such a look.

You KNOW you wouldn't, Jane Andrews!" "I DON'T know--exactly," said Jane unconvinced.

"I think diamonds would comfort a person for a good deal." "Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne.


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