1/3/2024 0 Comments Because i love her chapter 21![]() Our new minister’s wife was dressed in blue muslin with lovely puffed sleeves and a hat trimmed with roses. Lynde says the minister’s wife over at Newbridge sets a very bad example because she dresses so fashionably. Not exactly regally lovely, of course-it wouldn’t do, I suppose, for a minister to have a regally lovely wife, because it might set a bad example. Phillips going away I couldn’t help taking a little interest in a new minister, could I? His wife is very pretty. But one can’t feel quite in the depths of despair with two months’ vacation before them, can they, Marilla? And besides, we met the new minister and his wife coming from the station. Carrie Sloane kept saying every few minutes, ‘The time has come for us to part,’ and that would start us off again whenever we were in any danger of cheering up. The girls cried all the way home from school. I can tell you I wished I’d been a model pupil like Minnie Andrews. Oh, I felt dreadfully sorry and remorseful for all the times I’d talked in school and drawn pictures of him on my slate and made fun of him and Prissy. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, ‘The time has come for us to part.’ It was very affecting. Well, she was worse than any of us and had to borrow a handkerchief from her brother-of course the boys didn’t cry-because she hadn’t brought one of her own, not expecting to need it. Phillips went away and she declared she’d never shed a tear. Jane Andrews has been talking for a month about how glad she’d be when Mr. Phillips made me sit with Gil-with a, boy and the time he spelled my name without an e on the blackboard and how he said I was the worst dunce he ever saw at geometry and laughed at my spelling and all the times he had been so horrid and sarcastic but somehow I couldn’t, Marilla, and I just had to cry too. Then all the girls began to cry, one after the other. Phillips, but just as soon as he got up to make his farewell speech she burst into tears. Ruby Gillis has always declared she hated Mr. “I just cried because all the others did. ![]() “I don’t think I was crying because I was really so very fond of him,” reflected Anne. Phillips that you’d require two handkerchiefs to dry your tears just because he was going away,” said Marilla. ![]() “Wasn’t it fortunate, Marilla, that I took an extra handkerchief to school today? I had a presentiment that it would be needed.” Lynde says,” remarked Anne plaintively, putting her slate and books down on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red eyes with a very damp handkerchief. “Dear me, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as Mrs. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]()
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