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We'll be continuing anne of the island.
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By Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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Chapter 30 Mrs.
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Skinner's Romance anne stepped off the train at Valley Road Station.
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And looked about to see if anyone.
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Had come to meet her.
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She was to board with a certain Miss Janet suite, but she saw no one who answered in the least to.
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Her preconception of the lady as formed from Esther's letter.
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The only person in sight was an elderly woman sitting in a wagon with.
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Mailbags piled around her.
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200 would have been a charitable guess at her weight.
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Her face was as round and red as a harvest moon and almost as featureless.
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She wore a tight black cashmere dress made in the fashion of ten years ago.
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A little dusty black straw hat trimmed with bows of yellow ribbon and faded black.
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Lay Smith.
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Hear you.
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She called, waving her whip at Anne.
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Are you?
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The New Valley Road School, ma'am.
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Yes.
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Well, I thought so.
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Valley Road is noted for its good looking school, ma'am, just as Millersville is noted for its humbly ones.
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Janet Sweet asked me this morning as I could bring you out.
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I said certain I can, if she don't mind being scrunched up some this rig of mines kinder small for the mail bags and I'm some heftier than Thomas.
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Just wait, Miss, till I shift these bags a bit, and I'll tuck you in somehow.
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It's only 2 miles to Janet's.
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Her next door neighbors hired boys coming for your trunk tonight.
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My name is Skinner.
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Amelia Skinner.
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Anne was eventually tucked in, exchanging amused smiles with herself during the process.
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Juggleong black mare, commanded Mrs.
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Skinner, gathering up the reins in her pudgy hands.
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This is my first trip on the mail route.
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Thomas wanted to HOA his turnips today, so he asked me to come.
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So I just sat down and took a standing up snack and started.
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I sort of like it.
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Of course, it's rather tejious part of the time I sit and thinks, and the rest I just sit jog along.
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Blackmail.
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I want to get home early.
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Thomas is terrible lonesome when I'm away.
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You see, we haven't been married very long.
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Oh, said Anne politely, just a month.
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Thomas courted me for quite a spell, though it was real romantic.
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Anne tried to picture Mrs.
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Skinner on speaking terms with romance and failed.
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Oh, she said again.
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Yes.
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You see, there was another man after me.
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Jump along, black mare.
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I'd been a widower so long, folks had given up expecting me to marry again.
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But when my daughter, she's a schoolman like you went out west to teach, I felt real lonesome and wasn't know why I sought against the idea.
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By and by, Thomas began to come up, and so did the other feller, william Opaidiah Semen, his name was.
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For a long time, I couldn't make up my mind which of them to take, and they kept coming and coming, and I kept worrying.
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You see, w o was rich.
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He had a fine place and carried considerable style.
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He was by far the best match.
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Dongleong black mare.
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Why didn't you marry him?
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Asked Anne.
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Well, you see, he didn't love me.
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Answered Mrs.
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Skinner solemnly.
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Anne opened her eyes widely and looked at Mrs.
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Skinner, but there was not a glint of humor on that lady's face.
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Evidently, Mrs.
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Skinner saw nothing amusing in her own case.
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He'd been a witter man for three years, and his sister kept house for him.
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Then she got married, and he just wanted someone to look after his house.
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It was worth looking after two.
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Mind you, that it's.
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A handsome house.
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Juggleong black Mare as for Thomas, he was poor, and if his house didn't leak in dry weather, it was about all that could be said for it, though it looks kind of picturesque.
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But you see, I loved Thomas, and I didn't care one red scent for Wo, so I argued it out with myself.
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Sarah Crowe say I my first was a crow.
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You can marry your rich man if you like, but you won't be happy.
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Folks can't get along together in this world without a bit of love.
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You just better tie up to Thomas, for he loves you and you love him, and nothing else ain't going to do you.
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Jon long Blackmare so I told Thomas I'd take him all the time I was getting ready.
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I never dared drive past Wo's place for fear the side of that fine house of his would put me in the swithers again.
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But now I never think of it at all.
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And I'm just that comfortable and happy with Thomas.
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Jong along.
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Black Mare how did William Obadiah take it?
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Queried Anne.
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Oh, he rumpest a bit, but he's going to see a skinny old maid in Millersville now, and I guess she'll take him fast enough.
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She'll make him a better wife than his first did.
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W o never wanted to marry her.
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He just asked her to marry him because his father wanted him to.
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Never dreaming but that she'd say no.
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But mind you, she said yes.
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There was a predicament for you, Dog long black mare.
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She was a great housekeeper, but most awful mean.
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She wore the same bonnet for 18 years.
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Then she got a new one and wo met her on the road and didn't know her.
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Jog along, blackmare I feel that I.
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Had a narrower escape.
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I might have married him and been most awful miserable, like my poor cousin Jane Anne.
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Jane Anne married a rich man she didn't care anything about, and she hasn't the life of a dog.
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She come to see me last week and says says she, Sarah Skinner, I envy you.
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I'd rather live in a little hut on the side of the road with the man I was fond of than in my big house with the one I've got.
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Jane Ann's Man aunt such a bad sort.
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Nother though he's so contrary that he wears his fur coat when the thermometer is at 90.
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The only way to get him to do anything is to coax him to do the opposite.
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But there ain't any love to smooth things down and it's a poor way of living dog long black mare.
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There's Janet's place in the hollow wayside, she calls it.
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Quite pictures.
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Skew, ain't it?
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I guess you'll be glad to get out of this with all the mailbags jamming around you.
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Yes, but I have enjoyed my drive with you very much, said Anne sincerely.
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Get away now, said Mrs.
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Skinner.
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Highly flattered.
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Wait till I tell Thomas that.
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He always feels dreadful tickled when I get a compliment.
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Jog along, blackmare well, here we are.
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I hope you'll get on well in the school, miss.
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There's a shortcut to it through the Mashback of Janet's, if you take that way.
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Be awful careful.
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If you once got stuck in that black mud, you'd be sucked right down and never seen or heard tell of again till the Day of Judgment.
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Like Adam Palmer's cow jog long black mare.
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