Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson

Author:Budge Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Orphans -- Fiction, Large type books, Prince Edward Island -- Fiction
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2008-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

and make up your own stories to go with them.”

If Miss Henderson had brought her three big bags full of diamonds, Anne wouldn’t have looked half as thrilled as she did now. She picked up the books — one by one — patting them, smoothing them, leafing through the pages, hugging them to her chest.

“Oh, Miss Henderson!” she gasped. “I think I’m maybe going to die from too much happiness. Ever since I learned that I wouldn’t be able to go to school, I almost never smile. Certainly not on purpose. If you do it on purpose, that means that you care what other people think. I don’t care anymore what people think. I don’t try no, not for one single moment — to make Mrs. Thomas think that I’m happy. And I don’t smile to make Mr. Thomas feel less guilty about drinking up the food money and losing another job and having a life that he says doesn’t add up. No. I want him to feel bad. I love Noah, and of course I smile at him a lot. And hug him and all that. And of course Lochinvar. Katie Maurice never does anything wrong, so you’d think I might spend a lot of time smiling at her. But mostly when I talk to her, I’m telling her why I’m so unhappy. And that’s not a smil-

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