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Tonight, I will be continuing the story, Anne of Green Gables.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 23.

Anne comes to grief and an affair of honor.

Anne had to live through more than two weeks as it happened.

Almost a month having elapsed since the Lineman Cake episode,

it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absent-mindingly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry, instead

of into the pig's bucket, and walking clean over the edge

of a log bridge into the brook, while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth

counting.

A week after the tea at the manse, Diana Barry gave a party.

Small and select, Anne assured Marilla, just the girls in our class.

They had a very good time and nothing onto where it happened until after the tea,

when they found themselves in the Barry Garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe

for any enticing form of mischief, which might present itself. This presently took

the form of a daring. Daring was the fashionable amusement among the Avonlea small fry just then.

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