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Tonight, I will be continuing this story,

Anne of Green Gables,

by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

So lie down, close your eyes,

and let me read you a story.

Chapter 26. The Story Club is formed.

Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again.

To Anne, in particular, things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable, after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks.

Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before the concert?

At first, as she told Diana, she do not really think she could. I'm positively certain, Diana, that life can never be quite the same again

as it was in those olden days, she said mournfully, as if referring to a period of at least 50 years

back. Perhaps after a while I get used to it, of at least 50 years back.

Perhaps after a while I get used to it,

but I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

I suppose that is why Marilla disproves of them.

Marilla is such a sensible woman.

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