Ch. 6:
fractious - (typical of children) irritable and quarrelsome
Yes, I suppose I might as well take her off your hands, Miss Cuthbert. The baby's awful fractious, and I'm clean worn out attending to him. If you like I can take her right home now.
~ Mrs. Blewett
Ch. 7:
Marilla says to herself that she must find her old
Peep of Day series for Anne to study.
Matthew Cuthbert, it's about time somebody adopted that child and taught her something. She's next door to a perfect heathen. Will you believe that she never said a prayer in her life till tonight? I'll send her to the manse tomorrow and borrow the Peep of the Day series, that's what I'll do. And she shall go to Sunday-school just as soon as I can get some suitable clothes made for her. I foresee that I shall have my hands full. Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it. ~ Marilla
Ch. 8:
Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time...have you ever noticed that? ~ Anne
Ch. 9:
coppice-a thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs
Oldest Maple in Canada
Mountain Ash
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Water Fern
Starflowers
Ch. 10:
obdurate - stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action
Breakfast, dinner, and supper were very silent meals—for Anne still remained obdurate.
White Narcissi
Ch. 11:
But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself. ~ Anne
Buttercups
Fuscia
Then all the other little girls recited a paraphrase. She asked me if I knew any. I told her I didn't, but I could recite, 'The Dog at His Master's Grave' if she liked. That's in the Third Royal Reader. It isn't a really truly religious piece of poetry, but it's so sad and melancholy that it might as well be. ~ Anne
Spoiler: Sad Poem
The Dog at His Master’s
Grave
by Mrs. Sigourney
"He will not
come" said the gentle child,
And she patted the poor
dog's head.
And pleasantly called
him, and fondly smiled,
But he heeded her not,
in his anguish wild,
Nor arose from his lowly
bed.
'Twas his master's
grave, where he chose to rest,
He guarded it night and
day
The love that glowed in
his grateful breast,
For the friend that had
fed, controlled, caressed,
Might never fade away.
And when the long grass
rustled near,
Beneath some traveller's
tread,
He started up with a
quivering ear,
For he thought 'twas the
step of that master dear,
Returning from the dead.
And sometimes, when a
storm drew nigh,
And the clouds were dark
and fleet,
He tore the turf with a
mournful cry,
As if he would force his
way, or die,
To his much loved
master's feet.
So, there through the
summer's heat he lay,
Till autumn nights were
bleak;
Till his eye grew dim
with his hope's decay,
And he pined, and pined,
and wasted away.
A skeleton gaunt and
weak.
And pitying children
often brought
Their offerings of meat
and bread,
And to coax him away to
their homes they sought,
But his buried friend he
ne'er forgot,
Nor strayed from his
lonely bed.
Cold winter came with an
angry sway,
And the snow lay deep
and sore;
And his moaning grew
fainter day by day,
Till there on the spot
where his master lay,
He fell, to rise no
more.
And when he struggled
with mortal pain,
And death was by his
side,
With one loud cry that
shook the plain,
He called for his
master, but all in vain,
Then stretched himself
and died.
I sat just as still as I could and the text was Revelations, third chapter, second and third verses. It was a very long text. If I was a minister I'd pick the short, snappy ones. ~ Anne
Revelations 3:2-3
"Awake, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of God. Remember then what youi received and heard; keep that, and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you."
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