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August
august slipped away into a moment of time
she is not my aunt,
I always thought Marilla would be more of an aunt to her, even though she didn’t want to be called aunt. Since Matthew considered her his daughter, that is.
Gilbert Blythe,
the love of my life
were to be, nobody had any very clear idea except Anne and Gilbert. They had talked them over and planned them out until an ideal Avonlea existed in their minds, if nowhere else.
I love knowing they work together towards their dreams.
ANNE DROVE OVER
bye bye horsie
torn between his real convictions and his wish to measure up to Anne’s ideal, “there’s something to be said on both sides. I don’t believe in whipping children much. I think, as you say, Anne, that there are better ways of managing as a rule, and that corporal punishment should be a last resort. But on the other hand, as Jane says, I believe there is an occasional child who can’t be influenced in any other way and who, in short, needs a whipping and would be improved by it. Corporal punishment as a last resort is to be my rule.”
I like how he takes into consideration who he knows Anne wants him to be, and actually puts that into play with his opinion. while staying true to himself, he is also working to be a better man who she would like because he wants to like her. it’s not in a way like he is changing himself for her, but improving.
