1908-LCP-4th-versus-DIG-GUT-0000-non-trivial-3-chapters.txt

diff --git a/chapters/01-I.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Surprised.utf8 b/chapters/01-I.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Surprised.utf8
index 144b1a1..341577b 100644
--- a/chapters/01-I.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Surprised.utf8
+++ b/chapters/01-I.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Surprised.utf8
@@ -5 +5 @@ Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a litt
************* CHANGING COMMAS
-There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours’ business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
+There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbor’s business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -8 +8 @@ Yet with all this Mrs. Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitche
-Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel’s all-seeing eye.
+Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel’s all-seeing eye.

@@ -12 +12 @@ The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope be
-Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
+Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -19 +19 @@ Now, where was Matthew Cuthbert going and why was he going there?
-Had it been any other man in Avonlea Mrs. Rachel, deftly putting this and that together, might have given a pretty good guess as to both questions.
+Had it been any other man in Avonlea, Mrs. Rachel, deftly putting this and that together, might have given a pretty good guess as to both questions.

************* INSERTING WORDS
@@ -43 +43 @@ With this Mrs. Rachel stepped out of the lane into the backyard of Green Gables.
-Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and on the other with prim Lombardies.
+Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies.

************* EXTRA SPACES
@@ -100,3 +100,3 @@ This had been done without her advice being asked, and must perforce be disappro
-“Well, we’ve been thinking about it for some time—all winter in fact,” returned Marilla.
-“Mrs. Alexander Spencer was up here one day before Christmas and she said she was going to get a little girl from the asylum over in Hopetown in the spring.
-Her cousin lives there and Mrs. Spencer has visited her and knows all about it.
+“Well, we’ve been thinking about it for some time—all winter in fact,”  returned Marilla.
+“Mrs. Alexander Spencer was up here one day before Christmas and she said she was going to get a little girl from the asylum over in Hopeton in the spring.
+Her cousin lives there and Mrs. Spencer has visited here and knows all about it.

************* USING 'Home boy' MEANS IT CAN'T BE AN EARLY EDITION. 'Home' first appeard in 1925, not 1908.
@@ -109 +109 @@ There’s never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boy
-At first Matthew suggested getting a Barnado boy.
+At first Matthew suggested getting a Home boy.

************* INSERTING WORDS
@@ -133 +133 @@ If you had asked my advice in the matter—which you didn’t do, Marilla—I’
-This Job’s comforting seemed neither to offend nor alarm Marilla.
+This Job’s comforting seemed neither to offend nor to alarm Marilla.

************* DELETING WORDS
@@ -157 +157 @@ Mrs. Rachel would have liked to stay until Matthew came home with his imported o
-But reflecting that it would be a good two hours at least before his arrival she concluded to go up the road to Robert Bell’s and tell them the news.
+But reflecting that it would be a good two hours at least before his arrival she concluded to go up the road to Robert Bell’s and tell the news.

@@ -164 +164 @@ Well, I’m sorry for that poor young one and no mistake.
-Matthew and Marilla don’t know anything about children and they’ll expect him to be wiser and steadier than his own grandfather, if so be’s he ever had a grandfather, which is doubtful.
+Matthew and Marilla don’t know anything about children and they’ll expect him to be wiser and steadier that his own grandfather, if so be’s he ever had a grandfather, which is doubtful.





diff --git a/chapters/02-II.-Matthew-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8 b/chapters/02-II.-Matthew-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8
index 0440203..a24efac 100644
--- a/chapters/02-II.-Matthew-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8
+++ b/chapters/02-II.-Matthew-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8
@@ -10 +10 @@ The one day of summer in all the year.
******* ERROR ******* misspelling Prince Edward Island, as 'island'
-Matthew enjoyed the drive after his own fashion, except during the moments when he met women and had to nod to them—for in Prince Edward Island you are supposed to nod to all and sundry you meet on the road whether you know them or not.
+Matthew enjoyed the drive after his own fashion, except during the moments when he met women and had to nod to them—for in Prince Edward island you are supposed to nod to all and sundry you meet on the road whether you know them or not.

************* MISSING ITALICS
@@ -41 +41 @@ Said you and your sister were adopting her from an orphan asylum and that you wo
-That’s all _I_ know about it—and I haven’t got any more orphans concealed hereabouts.”
+That’s all I know about it—and I haven’t got any more orphans concealed hereabouts.”

************* EDITORIAL CHANGE
@@ -57 +57 @@ She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back,
-Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, that looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others.
+Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, which looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others.

************* MISSING ITALICS
@@ -99 +99 @@ But there is so little scope for the imagination in an asylum—only just in the
-It _was_ pretty interesting to imagine things about them—to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess.
+It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them—to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -106 +106 @@ With this Matthew’s companion stopped talking, partly because she was out of b
-Not another word did she say until they had left the village and were driving down a steep little hill, the road part of which had been cut so deeply into the soft soil that the banks, fringed with blooming wild cherry-trees and slim white birches, were several feet above their heads.
+Not another word did she say until they had left the village and were driving down a steep little hill, the road part of which had been cut so deeply into the soft soil, that the banks, fringed with blooming wild cherry-trees and slim white birches, were several feet above their heads.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -133 +133 @@ I wasn’t a bit sick coming over in the boat.
-Neither was Mrs. Spencer, although she generally is.
+Neither was Mrs. Spencer although she generally is.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -146 +146 @@ She said I must have asked her a thousand already.
-I suppose I had, too, but how are you going to find out about things if you don’t ask questions?
+I suppose I had, too, but how you going to find out about things if you don’t ask questions?

@@ -154 +154 @@ It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world.
-It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?
+It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?

************* ITALICS IN THE WRONG PLACE
@@ -160 +160 @@ If you say so I’ll stop.
-I _can_ stop when I make up my mind to it, although it’s difficult.”
+I can _stop_ when I make up my mind to it, although it’s difficult.”

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -166,2 +166,2 @@ Women were bad enough in all conscience, but little girls were worse.
-He detested the way they had of sidling past him timidly, with side-wise glances, as if they expected him to gobble them up at a mouthful if they ventured to say a word.
-This was the Avonlea type of well-bred little girl.
+He detested the way they had of sidling past him timidly, with sidewise glances, as if they expected him to gobble them up at a mouthful if they ventured to say a word.
+That was the Avonlea type of well-bred little girl.

************* CHANGING WORDS (slightly)
@@ -194 +194 @@ I used to say to them, ‘Oh, you _poor_ little things!
-If you were out in a great big woods with other trees all around you and little mosses and Junebells growing over your roots and a brook not far away and birds singing in your branches, you could grow, couldn’t you?
+If you were out in a great big woods with other trees all around you and little mosses and June bells growing over your roots and a brook not far away and birds singing in you branches, you could grow, couldn’t you?

************* CHANGING PUNCTUATION
@@ -204 +204 @@ I forgot to ask Mrs. Spencer that.”
-“Fancy!
+“Fancy.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -221 +221 @@ The girl let the braid drop back with a sigh that seemed to come from her very t
-Nobody could who had red hair.
+Nobody could who has red hair.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -228 +228 @@ I think to myself, ‘Now my hair is a glorious black, black as the raven’s wi
-But all the time I _know_ it is just plain red, and it breaks my heart.
+But all the time I _know_ it is just plain red and it breaks my heart.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -230 +230 @@ It will be my lifelong sorrow.
-I read of a girl once in a novel who had a lifelong sorrow, but it wasn’t red hair.
+I read of a girl once in a novel who had a lifelong sorrow but it wasn’t red hair.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -272 +272 @@ She could keep silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.
-“I guess you’re feeling pretty tired and hungry,” Matthew ventured at last, accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of.
+“I guess you’re feeling pretty tired and hungry,” Matthew ventured to say at last, accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -288 +288 @@ It’s the first thing I ever saw that couldn’t be improved upon by imaginatio
-It just satisfied me here”—she put one hand on her breast—“it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache.
+It just satisfies me here”—she put one hand on her breast—“it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -293 +293 @@ Did you ever have an ache like that, Mr. Cuthbert?”
-“I have it lots of times—whenever I see anything royally beautiful.
+“I have it lots of time—whenever I see anything royally beautiful.

************* MISSING ITALICS
@@ -359 +359 @@ But when Diana was born there was a schoolmaster boarding there and they gave hi
-“I wish there had been a schoolmaster like that around when _I_ was born, then.
+“I wish there had been a schoolmaster like that around when I was born, then.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -363 +363 @@ I’m always afraid going over bridges.
-I can’t help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they’ll crumple up like a jack-knife and nip us.
+I can’t help imagining that perhaps just as we get to the middle, they’ll crumple up like a jack-knife and nip us.

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -370 +370 @@ Isn’t it splendid there are so many things to like in this world?
-There, we’re over.
+There we’re over.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -417 +417 @@ By the time they arrived at the house Matthew was shrinking from the approaching
-It was not of Marilla or himself he was thinking or of the trouble this mistake was probably going to make for them, but of the child’s disappointment.
+It was not of Marilla or himself he was thinking of the trouble this mistake was probably going to make for them, but of the child’s disappointment.





diff --git a/chapters/03-III.-Marilla-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8 b/chapters/03-III.-Marilla-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8
index a32d175..6b36cb6 100644
--- a/chapters/03-III.-Marilla-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8
+++ b/chapters/03-III.-Marilla-Cuthbert-Is-Surprised.utf8

************* CHANGING PUNCTUATION
@@ -63 +63 @@ The child hesitated for a moment.
-“_Call_ you Cordelia!
+“_Call_ you Cordelia?

************* CHANGING COMMAS
@@ -72 +72 @@ If Cordelia isn’t your name, what is?”
-“Anne Shirley,” reluctantly faltered forth the owner of that name, “but oh, please do call me Cordelia.
+“Anne Shirley,” reluctantly faltered forth the owner of that name, “but, oh, please do call me Cordelia.

************* MISSING ITALICS
@@ -83 +83 @@ When I was young I used to imagine it was Geraldine, but I like Cordelia better
-But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an _e_.”
+But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E.”

************* MISSING ITALICS
@@ -91 +91 @@ I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished.
-If you’ll only call me Anne spelled with an _e_ I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.”
+If you’ll only call me Anne spelled with an E I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.”

************* MISSING ITALICS
@@ -93 +93 @@ If you’ll only call me Anne spelled with an _e_ I shall try to reconcile mysel
-“Very well, then, Anne spelled with an _e_, can you tell us how this mistake came to be made?
+“Very well, then, Anne spelled with an E, can you tell us how this mistake came to be made?

************* EXTRA SPACE
@@ -107 +107 @@ If I hadn’t seen the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters it wo
-“She—she’s just referring to some conversation we had on the road,” said Matthew hastily.
+“She—she’s just referring to some conversation we had on the road,”  said Matthew hastily.

************* CHANGE TO SENTENCE STRUCTURE, WORDS
@@ -114,2 +114 @@ Have tea ready when I come back.”
-Lily is only five years old and she is very beautiful.
-She has nut-brown hair.
+Lily is only five years old and she is very beautiful and had nut-brown hair.

************* CHANGE WORDS
@@ -185,2 +183,2 @@ In one corner was the bed, a high, old-fashioned one, with four dark, low-turned
-In the other corner was the aforesaid three-cornered table adorned with a fat, red velvet pincushion hard enough to turn the point of the most adventurous pin.
-Above it hung a little six by eight mirror.
+In the other corner was the aforesaid three-corner table adorned with a fat, red velvet pin-cushion hard enough to turn the point of the most adventurous pin.
+Above it hung a little six-by-eight mirror.

************* INCORRECT WORD
@@ -204 +202 @@ Matthew was smoking—a sure sign of perturbation of mind.
-He seldom smoked, for Marilla set her face against it as a filthy habit; but at certain times and seasons he felt driven to it and then Marilla winked at the practice, realizing that a mere man must have some vent for his emotions.
+He seldom smoked, for Marilla set her face against it as a filthy habit; but at certain times and seasons he felt driven to it and them Marilla winked at the practice, realizing that a mere man must have some vent for his emotions.

************* CHANGE COMMAS
@@ -224 +222 @@ Marilla’s astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a
-“Well now, no, I suppose not—not exactly,” stammered Matthew, uncomfortably driven into a corner for his precise meaning.
+“Well, now, no, I suppose not—not exactly,” stammered Matthew, uncomfortably driven into a corner for his precise meaning.






diff --git a/chapters/04-IV.-Morning-at-Green-Gables.utf8 b/chapters/04-IV.-Morning-at-Green-Gables.utf8
index 392db9c..3b1c86d 100644
--- a/chapters/04-IV.-Morning-at-Green-Gables.utf8
+++ b/chapters/04-IV.-Morning-at-Green-Gables.utf8
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Morning at Green Gables
+Morning at Green Gables GUT
@@ -6 +6 @@ For a moment she could not remember where she was.
-First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.
+First came a delightful thrill, as something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.
@@ -29 +29 @@ Off to the left were the big barns and beyond them, away down over green, low-sl
-Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in; she had looked on so many unlovely places in her life, poor child; but this was as lovely as anything she had ever dreamed.
+Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in. She had looked on so many unlovely places in her life, poor child; but this was as lovely as anything she had ever dreamed.
@@ -71 +71 @@ As a matter of fact, however, she had forgotten to turn back the bedclothes.
-“I’m pretty hungry this morning,” she announced, as she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her.
+“I’m pretty hungry this morning,” she announced as she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her.
@@ -77 +77 @@ You don’t know what’s going to happen through the day, and there’s so much
-But I’m glad it’s not rainy to-day because it’s easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day.
+But I’m glad it’s not rainy today because it’s easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day.
@@ -85 +85 @@ Thereupon Anne held her tongue so obediently and thoroughly that her continued s
-Matthew also held his tongue,—but this at least was natural,—so that the meal was a very silent one.
+Matthew also held his tongue,—but this was natural,—so that the meal was a very silent one.

************* ITALICS NOT THE SAME
@@ -105 +105 @@ It’s such a pity you haven’t any here for me to look after.”
-_You_’re problem enough in all conscience.
+_You’re_ problem enough in all conscience.

************* EXTRA SPACE
@@ -114 +114 @@ I felt that he was a kindred spirit as soon as ever I saw him.”
-“You’re both queer enough, if that’s what you mean by kindred spirits,” said Marilla with a sniff.
+“You’re both queer enough, if that’s what you mean by kindred spirits,”  said Marilla with a sniff.

@@ -121 +121 @@ After you’ve finished the dishes go up-stairs and make your bed.”
-Anne washed the dishes deftly enough, as Marilla, who kept a sharp eye on the process, discerned.
+Anne washed the dishes deftly enough, as Marilla who kept a sharp eye on the process, discerned.
@@ -123 +123 @@ Later on she made her bed less successfully, for she had never learned the art o
-But it was done somehow and smoothed down; and then Marilla, to get rid of her, told her she might go out-of-doors and amuse herself until dinnertime.
+But is was done somehow and smoothed down; and then Marilla, to get rid of her, told her she might go out-of-doors and amuse herself until dinner time.
@@ -137 +137 @@ There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?
-And it’s _so_ hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?
+And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?
@@ -165,2 +165,2 @@ Of course, it won’t always be in blossom, but one can imagine that it is, can
-“I never in all my life saw or heard anything to equal her,” muttered Marilla, beating a retreat down cellar after potatoes.
-“She _is_ kind of interesting, as Matthew says.
+“I never in all my life saw or heard anything to equal her,” muttered Marilla, beating a retreat down to the cellar after potatoes.
+“She is kind of interesting as Matthew says.
@@ -191 +191 @@ Matthew hitched the sorrel into the buggy in due time and Marilla and Anne set o
-Matthew opened the yard gate for them, and as they drove slowly through, he said, to nobody in particular as it seemed:
+Matthew opened the yard gate for them and as they drove slowly through, he said, to nobody in particular as it seemed:
diff --git "a/chapters/05-V.-Anne\342\200\231s-History.utf8" "b/chapters/05-V.-Anne\342\200\231s-History.utf8"
index aa22063..55069ea 100644
--- "a/chapters/05-V.-Anne\342\200\231s-History.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/05-V.-Anne\342\200\231s-History.utf8"
@@ -13 +13 @@ I’m sure they could tell us such lovely things.
-And isn’t pink the most bewitching colour in the world?
+And isn’t pink the most bewitching color in the world?
@@ -15,2 +15,2 @@ I love it, but I can’t wear it.
-Red-headed people can’t wear pink, not even in imagination.
-Did you ever know of anybody whose hair was red when she was young, but got to be another colour when she grew up?”
+Redheaded people can’t wear pink, not even in imagination.
+Did you ever know of anybody whose hair was red when she was young, but got to be another color when she grew up?”
@@ -18 +18 @@ Did you ever know of anybody whose hair was red when she was young, but got to b
-“No, I don’t know as I ever did,” said Marilla mercilessly, “and I shouldn’t think it likely to happen in your case, either.”
+“No, I don’t know as I ever did,” said Marilla mercilessly, “and I shouldn’t think it likely to happen in your case either.”
@@ -23 +23 @@ Anne sighed.
-My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
+‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’
@@ -29 +29 @@ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself w
-I am so fond of romantic things, and a graveyard full of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine, isn’t it?
+I am so fond of romantic things, and a graveyard full of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine isn’t it?
@@ -31 +31 @@ I’m rather glad I have one.
-Are we going across the Lake of Shining Waters to-day?”
+Are we going across the Lake of Shining Waters today?”
@@ -69 +69 @@ I suppose my father could have been a good man even if he had been called Jededi
-Well, my mother was a teacher in the High School, too, but when she married father she gave up teaching, of course.
+Well, my mother was a teacher in the High school, too, but when she married father she gave up teaching, of course.
@@ -74 +74 @@ I’ve never seen that house, but I’ve imagined it thousands of times.
-I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlour window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
+I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
@@ -80 +80 @@ I should think a mother would be a better judge than a poor woman who came in to
-I’m glad she was satisfied with me anyhow; I would feel so sad if I thought I was a disappointment to her—because she didn’t live very long after that, you see.
+I’m glad she was satisfied with me anyhow, I would feel so sad if I thought I was a disappointment to her—because she didn’t live very long after that, you see.
@@ -84 +84 @@ I think it would be so sweet to say ‘mother,’ don’t you?
-And father died four days afterwards from fever, too.
+And father died four days afterwards from fever too.
@@ -101 +101 @@ I’m sure I could never have lived there if I hadn’t had an imagination.
-Mr. Hammond worked a little saw-mill up there, and Mrs. Hammond had eight children.
+Mr. Hammond worked a little sawmill up there, and Mrs. Hammond had eight children.
@@ -110 +110 @@ I had to go to the asylum at Hopeton, because nobody would take me.
-They didn’t want me at the asylum, either; they said they were overcrowded as it was.
+They didn’t want me at the asylum, either; they said they were over-crowded as it was.
@@ -120 +120 @@ I went a little the last year I stayed with Mrs. Thomas.
-When I went up river we were so far from a school that I couldn’t walk it in winter and there was vacation in summer, so I could only go in the spring and fall.
+When I went up river we were so far from a school that I couldn’t walk it in winter and there was a vacation in summer, so I could only go in the spring and fall.
@@ -122 +122 @@ But of course I went while I was at the asylum.
-I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart—‘The Battle of Hohenlinden’ and ‘Edinburgh after Flodden,’ and ‘Bingen on the Rhine,’ and lots of the ‘Lady of the Lake’ and most of ‘The Seasons,’ by James Thompson.
+I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart—‘The Battle of Hohenlinden’ and ‘Edinburgh after Flodden,’ and ‘Bingen of the Rhine,’ and most of the ‘Lady of the Lake’ and most of ‘The Seasons’ by James Thompson.


************* BAD ERROR 
@@ -134 +134 @@ They had a good deal to worry them, you know.
-It’s very trying to have a drunken husband, you see; and it must be very trying to have twins three times in succession, don’t you think?
+It’s  a very trying to have a drunken husband, you see; and it must be very trying to have twins three times in succession, don’t you think?


@@ -157 +157 @@ Down at the base of the cliffs were heaps of surf-worn rocks or little sandy cov
-“Once, when I lived in Marysville, Mr. Thomas hired an express-wagon and took us all to spend the day at the shore ten miles away.
+“Once, when I lived in Marysville, Mr. Thomas hired an express wagon and took us all to spend the day at the shore ten miles away.
diff --git a/chapters/06-VI.-Marilla-Makes-Up-Her-Mind.utf8 b/chapters/06-VI.-Marilla-Makes-Up-Her-Mind.utf8
index f6d44e9..70dd985 100644
--- a/chapters/06-VI.-Marilla-Makes-Up-Her-Mind.utf8
+++ b/chapters/06-VI.-Marilla-Makes-Up-Her-Mind.utf8
@@ -6 +6 @@ Mrs. Spencer lived in a big yellow house at White Sands Cove, and she came to th
-“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for to-day, but I’m real glad to see you.
+“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for today, but I’m real glad to see you.
@@ -15 +15 @@ The fact is, Mrs. Spencer, there’s been a queer mistake somewhere, and I’ve
-We sent word, Matthew and I, for you to bring us a boy from the asylum.
+We send word, Matthew and I, for you to bring us a boy from the asylum.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -19 +19 @@ We told your brother Robert to tell you we wanted a boy ten or eleven years old.
-“Why, Robert sent the word down by his daughter Nancy and she said you wanted a girl—didn’t she, Flora Jane?” appealing to her daughter who had come out to the steps.
+“Why, Robert sent word down by his daughter Nancy and she said you wanted a girl—didn’t she Flora Jane?” appealing to her daughter who had come out to the steps.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -24 +24 @@ We told your brother Robert to tell you we wanted a boy ten or eleven years old.
-“It is too bad; but it certainly wasn’t my fault, you see, Miss Cuthbert.
+“It’s too bad; but it certainly wasn’t my fault, you see, Miss Cuthbert.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -31 +31 @@ I’ve often had to scold her well for her heedlessness.”
-Anyhow, the mistake has been made and the only thing to do now is to set it right.
+Anyhow, the mistake has been made and the only thing to do is to set it right.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -38 +38 @@ Mrs. Peter has a large family, you know, and she finds it hard to get help.
-Anne will be the very girl for her.
+Anne will be the very girl for you.

@@ -51 +51 @@ Marilla felt a qualm of conscience at the thought of handing Anne over to her te
-“And if there isn’t Mrs. Peter coming up the lane this blessed minute!” exclaimed Mrs. Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlour, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.
+“And if there isn’t Mrs. Peter coming up the lane this blessed minute!” exclaimed Mrs. Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -54 +54 @@ Take the armchair, Miss Cuthbert.
-Anne, you sit here on the ottoman and don’t wriggle.
+Anne, you sit here on the ottoman and don’t wiggle.
@@ -65 +65 @@ Mrs. Spencer whisked away, after pulling up the blinds.
-Anne, sitting mutely on the ottoman, with her hands clasped tightly in her lap, stared at Mrs. Blewett as one fascinated.
+Anne sitting mutely on the ottoman, with her hands clasped tightly in her lap, stared at Mrs Blewett as one fascinated.

************* EXTRA SPACE
@@ -70 +70 @@ She was beginning to be afraid she couldn’t keep the tears back when Mrs. Spen
-“It seems there’s been a mistake about this little girl, Mrs. Blewett,” she said.
+“It seems there’s been a mistake about this little girl, Mrs. Blewett,”  she said.


@@ -94,2 +94,2 @@ Marilla felt an uncomfortable conviction that, if she denied the appeal of that
-Moreover, she did not fancy Mrs. Blewett.
-To hand a sensitive, “high-strung” child over to such a woman!
+More-over, she did not fancy Mrs. Blewett.
+To hand a sensitive, “highstrung” child over to such a woman!
@@ -100 +100 @@ No, she could not take the responsibility of doing that!
-In fact, I may say that Matthew is disposed to keep her.
+In fact I may say that Matthew is disposed to keep her.
@@ -104 +104 @@ I feel that I oughtn’t to decide on anything without consulting him.
-If we make up our mind not to keep her we’ll bring or send her over to you to-morrow night.
+If we make up our mind not to keep her we’ll bring or send her over to you tomorrow night.
@@ -112 +112 @@ First the look of despair faded out; then came a faint flush of hope; her eyes g
-The child was quite transfigured; and, a moment later, when Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. Blewett went out in quest of a recipe the latter had come to borrow, she sprang up and flew across the room to Marilla.
+The child was quite transfigured; and, a moment later, when Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. Blewett went out in quest of a recipe the latter had come to borrow she sprang up and flew across the room to Marilla.
@@ -135,2 +135,2 @@ Marilla from afar had noted him prowling along it and guessed his motive.
-She was prepared for the relief she read in his face when he saw that she had at least brought Anne back with her.
-But she said nothing to him, relative to the affair, until they were both out in the yard behind the barn milking the cows.
+She was prepared for the relief she read in his face when he saw that she had at least brought back Anne back with her.
+But she said nothing, to him, relative to the affair, until they were both out in the yard behind the barn milking the cows.
@@ -142 +142 @@ Then she briefly told him Anne’s history and the result of the interview with
-And, since you seem to want her, I suppose I’m willing—or have to be.
+And since you seem to want her, I suppose I’m willing—or have to be.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -161 +161 @@ When I fail it’ll be time enough to put your oar in.”
-“Only be as good and kind to her as you can be without spoiling her.
+“Only be as good and kind to her as you can without spoiling her.

@@ -166 +166 @@ Marilla sniffed, to express her contempt for Matthew’s opinions concerning any
-“I won’t tell her to-night that she can stay,” she reflected, as she strained the milk into the creamers.
+“I won’t tell her tonight that she can stay,” she reflected, as she strained the milk into the creamers.
diff --git a/chapters/07-VII.-Anne-Says-Her-Prayers.utf8 b/chapters/07-VII.-Anne-Says-Her-Prayers.utf8
index 9366522..940764b 100644
--- a/chapters/07-VII.-Anne-Says-Her-Prayers.utf8
+++ b/chapters/07-VII.-Anne-Says-Her-Prayers.utf8
@@ -11 +11 @@ I haven’t any use at all for little girls who aren’t neat.”
-“I’ll fold them nicely to-night.
+“I’ll fold them nicely tonight.
@@ -73 +73 @@ If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do.
-I’d go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep woods, and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness.
+I’d go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness.
@@ -80 +80 @@ She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, “Now I lay me down to sle
-But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humour—which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God’s love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.
+But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God’s love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -86 +86 @@ But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humour—which is
-“Gracious heavenly Father—that’s the way the ministers say it in church, so I suppose it’s all right in a private prayer, isn’t it?” she interjected, lifting her head for a moment.
+“Gracious heavenly Father—that’s the way the ministers say it in church, so I suppose it’s all right in private prayer, isn’t it?” she interjected, lifting her head for a moment.


@@ -90 +90 @@ And that’s all the blessings I can think of just now to thank Thee for.
-As for the things I want, they’re so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all, so I will only mention the two most important.
+As for the things I want, they’re so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all so I will only mention the two most important.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -95 +95 @@ I remain, Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.”
-“There, did I do it all right?” she asked eagerly, getting up.
+“There, did I do all right?” she asked eagerly, getting up.


@@ -102 +102 @@ She tucked the child up in bed, mentally vowing that she should be taught a pray
-I should have said ‘Amen’ in place of ‘yours respectfully,’ shouldn’t I?—the way the ministers do.
+I should have said, ‘Amen’ in place of ‘yours respectfully,’ shouldn’t I?—the way the ministers do.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -110 +110 @@ Good night.”
-“I can say good night to-night with a clear conscience,” said Anne, cuddling luxuriously down among her pillows.
+“I can only say good night tonight with a clear conscience,” said Anne, cuddling luxuriously down among her pillows.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -116,2 +116,2 @@ She’s next door to a perfect heathen.
-Will you believe that she never said a prayer in her life till to-night?
-I’ll send to the manse to-morrow and borrow the Peep of Day series, that’s what I’ll do.
+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.




diff --git "a/chapters/08-VIII.-Anne\342\200\231s-Bringing-up-Is-Begun.utf8" "b/chapters/08-VIII.-Anne\342\200\231s-Bringing-up-Is-Begun.utf8"
index d5a1acb..ce2bd30 100644
--- "a/chapters/08-VIII.-Anne\342\200\231s-Bringing-up-Is-Begun.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/08-VIII.-Anne\342\200\231s-Bringing-up-Is-Begun.utf8"
@@ -5 +5 @@ During the forenoon she kept the child busy with various tasks and watched over
-By noon she had concluded that Anne was smart and obedient, willing to work and quick to learn; her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into day-dreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.
+By noon she had concluded that Anne was smart and obedient, willing to work and quick to learn; her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.
@@ -15 +15 @@ Please tell me.”
-“You haven’t scalded the dish-cloth in clean hot water as I told you to do,” said Marilla immovably.
+“You haven’t scalded the dishcloth in clean hot water as I told you to do,” said Marilla immovably.

************* CHANGING WORDS AND THE MEANING
@@ -18,3 +18,2 @@ Please tell me.”
-Anne went and attended to the dish-cloth.
-Then she returned to Marilla and fastened imploring eyes on the latter’s face.
-
+Anne went and attended to the dishcloth.
+Then she returned to Marilla and fastened imploring eyes of the latter’s face.

@@ -33 +32 @@ I’ll try to be so good.
-It will be up-hill work, I expect, for Mrs. Thomas often told me I was desperately wicked.
+It will be uphill work, I expect, for Mrs. Thomas often told me I was desperately wicked.

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -50 +49 @@ I’m not used to being called Miss Cuthbert and it would make me nervous.”
-“It sounds awfully disrespectful to say just Marilla,” protested Anne.
+“It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla,” protested Anne.

@@ -79 +78 @@ And that reminds me.
-Go into the sitting-room, Anne—be sure your feet are clean and don’t let any flies in—and bring me out the illustrated card that’s on the mantelpiece.
+Go into the sitting room, Anne—be sure your feet are clean and don’t let any flies in—and bring me out the illustrated card that’s on the mantelpiece.

************* CHANGING WORDS (AGGRESSIVELY)
@@ -98,2 +97,2 @@ Anne promptly departed for the sitting-room across the hall; she failed to retur
-She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her hands clasped behind her, her face uplifted, and her eyes astar with dreams.
-The white and green light strained through apple-trees and clustering vines outside fell over the rapt little figure with a half-unearthly radiance.
+She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her eyes a-star with dreams.
+The white and green light strained through apple trees and clustering vines outside fell over the rapt little figure with a half-unearthly radiance.

@@ -101 +100,2 @@ The white and green light strained through apple-trees and clustering vines outs
-“Anne, whatever are you thinking of?” demanded Marilla sharply.
+“Anne, whatever are you thinking of?”
+demanded Marilla sharply.
@@ -114 +114 @@ I’ve been trying to imagine it all out—her edging a little nearer all the ti
-But I wish the artist hadn’t painted Him so sorrowful-looking.
+But I wish the artist hadn’t painted Him so sorrowful looking.
@@ -121 +121 @@ It’s irreverent—positively irreverent.”
-Anne’s eyes marvelled.
+Anne’s eyes marveled.
@@ -126 +126 @@ I’m sure I didn’t mean to be irreverent.”
-“Well, I don’t suppose you did—but it doesn’t sound right to talk so familiarly about such things.
+“Well I don’t suppose you did—but it doesn’t sound right to talk so familiarly about such things.
@@ -132 +132 @@ Now, sit down in the corner and learn that prayer off by heart.”
-Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner table—Marilla had eyed that decoration askance, but had said nothing—propped her chin on her hands, and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes.
+Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner-table—Marilla had eyed that decoration askance, but had said nothing—propped her chin on her hands, and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes.
@@ -136 +136 @@ Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to
-I’ve heard it before—I heard the superintendent of the asylum Sunday-school say it over once.
+I’ve heard it before—I heard the superintendent of the asylum Sunday school say it over once.
@@ -141 +141 @@ This isn’t poetry, but it makes me feel just the same way poetry does.
-‘Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.’
+‘Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name.’

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -151 +151 @@ Anne tipped the vase of apple blossoms near enough to bestow a soft kiss on a pi
-“A—a what kind of a friend?”
+“A—a what kind of friend?”

@@ -182 +182 @@ Next to being beautiful oneself—and that’s impossible in my case—it would
-When I lived with Mrs. Thomas she had a bookcase in her sitting-room with glass doors.
+When I lived with Mrs. Thomas she had a bookcase in her sitting room with glass doors.
@@ -195 +195 @@ There was no bookcase at Mrs. Hammond’s.
-But just up the river a little way from the house there was a long green little valley, and the loveliest echo lived there
+But just up the river a little way from the house there was a long green little valley, and the loveliest echo lived there.
@@ -215,2 +215,2 @@ If I wasn’t a human girl I think I’d like to be a bee and live among the flo
-“Yesterday you wanted to be a sea-gull,” sniffed Marilla.
-“I think you are very fickle-minded.
+“Yesterday you wanted to be a sea gull,” sniffed Marilla.
+“I think you are very fickle minded.
@@ -232 +232 @@ You should have left them on the tree in the first place.”
-“I kind of felt I shouldn’t shorten their lovely lives by picking them— I wouldn’t want to be picked if I were an apple blossom.
+“I kind of felt I shouldn’t shorten their lovely lives by picking them—I wouldn’t want to be picked if I were an apple blossom.
@@ -241 +241 @@ Anne sighed, retreated to the east gable, and sat down in a chair by the window.
-I learned that last sentence coming up-stairs.
+I learned that last sentence coming upstairs.
@@ -263 +263 @@ She bent forward, kissed her reflection affectionately, and betook herself to th
-And good afternoon, dear birches down in the hollow.
+And good afternoon dear birches down in the hollow.
@@ -271 +271 @@ I must be careful to remember them and send them a kiss every day.”
-Anne blew a couple of airy kisses from her finger-tips past the cherry blossoms and then, with her chin in her hands, drifted luxuriously out on a sea of day-dreams.
\ No newline at end of file
+Anne blew a couple of airy kisses from her fingertips past the cherry blossoms and then, with her chin in her hands, drifted luxuriously out on a sea of daydreams.
\ No newline at end of file



diff --git a/chapters/09-IX.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Properly-Horrified.utf8 b/chapters/09-IX.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Properly-Horrified.utf8
index e2f0267..5a700e0 100644
--- a/chapters/09-IX.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Properly-Horrified.utf8
+++ b/chapters/09-IX.-Mrs.-Rachel-Lynde-Is-Properly-Horrified.utf8

************* CHANGING WORDS
@@ -7 +7 @@ Mrs. Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for people who we
-As soon as her doctor allowed her to put her foot out-of-doors she hurried up to Green Gables, bursting with curiosity to see Matthew’s and Marilla’s orphan, concerning whom all sorts of stories and suppositions had gone abroad in Avonlea.
+As soon as her doctor allowed her to put her foot out-of-doors she hurried up to Green Gables, bursting with curiosity to see Matthew and Marilla’s orphan, concerning whom all sorts of stories and suppositions had gone abroad in Avonlea.

************* EXTRA SPACE
@@ -15 +15 @@ She had made friends with the spring down in the hollow—that wonderful deep, c
-That bridge led Anne’s dancing feet up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate “June bells,” those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale, aerial starflowers, like the spirits of last year’s blossoms.
+That bridge led Anne’s dancing feet up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate “June bells,”  those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale, aerial starflowers, like the spirits of last year’s blossoms.

@@ -18 +18 @@ Gossamers glimmered like threads of silver among the trees and the fir boughs an
-All these raptured voyages of exploration were made in the odd half-hours which she was allowed for play, and Anne talked Matthew and Marilla half-deaf over her discoveries.
+All these raptured voyages of exploration were made in the odd half hours which she was allowed for play, and Anne talked Matthew and Marilla half-deaf over her discoveries.
@@ -21 +21 @@ Not that Matthew complained, to be sure; he listened to it all with a wordless s
-Anne was out in the orchard when Mrs. Rachel came, wandering at her own sweet will through the lush, tremulous grasses splashed with ruddy evening sunshine; so that good lady had an excellent chance to talk her illness fully over, describing every ache and pulse-beat with such evident enjoyment that Marilla thought even grippe must bring its compensations.
+Anne was out in the orchard when Mrs. Rachel came, wandering at her own sweet will through the lush, tremulous grasses splashed with ruddy evening sunshine; so that good lady had an excellent chance to talk her illness fully over, describing every ache and pulse beat with such evident enjoyment that Marilla thought even grippe must bring its compensations.
@@ -44,2 +44 @@ But I don’t want to discourage you I’m sure, Marilla.”
-“I’m not feeling discouraged,” was Marilla’s dry response.
-“When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.
+“I’m not feeling discouraged,” was Marilla’s dry response, “when I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.
@@ -49 +48 @@ I’ll call her in.”
-Anne came running in presently, her face sparkling with the delight of her orchard rovings; but, abashed at finding herself in the unexpected presence of a stranger, she halted confusedly inside the door.
+Anne came running in presently, her face sparkling with the delight of her orchard rovings; but, abashed at finding the delight herself in the unexpected presence of a stranger, she halted confusedly inside the door.
@@ -53,2 +52,2 @@ Her freckles were more numerous and obtrusive than ever; the wind had ruffled he
-“Well, they didn’t pick you for your looks, that’s sure and certain,” was Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s emphatic comment.
-Mrs. Rachel was one of those delightful and popular people who pride themselves on speaking their mind without fear or favour.
+“Well, they didn’t pick you for your looks, that’s sure and certain,”  was Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s emphatic comment.
+Mrs. Rachel was one of those delightful and popular people who pride themselves on speaking their mind without fear or favor.
@@ -67 +66 @@ With one bound she crossed the kitchen floor and stood before Mrs. Rachel, her f
-How dare you say I’m freckled and red-headed?
+How dare you say I’m freckled and redheaded?
@@ -87 +86 @@ Stamp!
-“Anne, go to your room and stay there until I come up,” said Marilla, recovering her powers of speech with difficulty.
+“Anne go to your room and stay there until I come up,” said Marilla, recovering her powers of speech with difficulty.
@@ -124 +123 @@ Whereat Mrs. Rachel swept out and away—if a fat woman who always waddled _coul
-On the way up-stairs she pondered uneasily as to what she ought to do.
+On the way upstairs she pondered uneasily as to what she ought to do.
@@ -131 +130 @@ She did not believe she could whip a child.
-No, some other method of punishment must be found to bring Anne to a proper realization of the enormity of her offence.
+No, some other method of punishment must be found to bring Anne to a proper realization of the enormity of her offense.
@@ -135 +134 @@ Marilla found Anne face downward on her bed, crying bitterly, quite oblivious of
-“Anne,” she said, not ungently.
+“Anne,” she said not ungently.
@@ -143 +142,2 @@ Anne squirmed off the bed and sat rigidly on a chair beside it, her face swollen
-“This is a nice way for you to behave, Anne!
+“This is a nice way for you to behave.
+Anne!
@@ -146 +146 @@ Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?”
-“She hadn’t any right to call me ugly and red-headed,” retorted Anne, evasive and defiant.
+“She hadn’t any right to call me ugly and redheaded,” retorted Anne, evasive and defiant.
@@ -172 +172 @@ Marilla was every day of fifty before the sting had gone out of that memory.
-But that is no excuse for such behaviour on your part.
+But that is no excuse for such behavior on your part.
@@ -181 +181 @@ But I cannot ask Mrs. Lynde to forgive me.”
-“We’re not in the habit of shutting people up in dark, damp dungeons,” said Marilla drily, “especially as they’re rather scarce in Avonlea.
+“We’re not in the habit of shutting people up in dark damp dungeons,”  said Marilla drily, “especially as they’re rather scarce in Avonlea.
@@ -184 +184 @@ But apologize to Mrs. Lynde you must and shall and you’ll stay here in your ro
-“I shall have to stay here for ever then,” said Anne mournfully, “because I can’t tell Mrs. Lynde I’m sorry I said those things to her.
+“I shall have to stay here forever then,” said Anne mournfully, “because I can’t tell Mrs. Lynde I’m sorry I said those things to her.
@@ -197 +197 @@ Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne’s stormy bosom, Marilla descende
-She was as angry with herself as with Anne, because, whenever she recalled Mrs. Rachel’s dumfounded countenance her lips twitched with amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh.
\ No newline at end of file
+She was as angry with herself as with Anne, because, whenever she recalled Mrs. Rachel’s dumbfounded countenance her lips twitched with amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git "a/chapters/10-X.-Anne\342\200\231s-Apology.utf8" "b/chapters/10-X.-Anne\342\200\231s-Apology.utf8"
index c2e64c0..db01575 100644
--- "a/chapters/10-X.-Anne\342\200\231s-Apology.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/10-X.-Anne\342\200\231s-Apology.utf8"
@@ -3,2 +3,2 @@ Anne’s Apology
-Marilla said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening; but when Anne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be made to account for her absence from the breakfast-table.
-Marilla told Matthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of the enormity of Anne’s behaviour.
+Marilla said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening; but when Anne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be made to account for her absence from the breakfast table.
+Marilla told Matthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of the enormity of Anne’s behavior.
@@ -9,2 +9,2 @@ Marilla told Matthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sen
-You know that Anne’s behaviour was dreadful, and yet you take her part!
-I suppose you’ll be saying next thing that she oughtn’t to be punished at all.”
+You know that Anne’s behavior was dreadful, and yet you take her part!
+I suppose you’ll be saying next thing that she oughtn’t to be punished at all!”
@@ -15 +15 @@ But don’t be too hard on her, Marilla.
-Recollect she hasn’t ever had any one to teach her right.
+Recollect she hasn’t ever had anyone to teach her right.
@@ -18 +18 @@ You’re—you’re going to give her something to eat, aren’t you?”
-“When did you ever hear of me starving people into good behaviour?” demanded Marilla indignantly.
+“When did you ever hear of me starving people into good behavior?” demanded Marilla indignantly.
@@ -27,3 +27,3 @@ Had Anne eaten anything at all?
-When Marilla went out that evening to bring the cows from the back pasture, Matthew, who had been hanging about the barns and watching, slipped into the house with the air of a burglar and crept up-stairs.
-As a general thing Matthew gravitated between the kitchen and the little bedroom off the hall where he slept; once in a while he ventured uncomfortably into the parlour or sitting-room when the minister came to tea.
-But he had never been up-stairs in his own house since the spring he helped Marilla paper the spare bedroom, and that was four years ago.
+When Marilla went out that evening to bring the cows from the back pasture, Matthew, who had been hanging about the barns and watching, slipped into the house with the air of a burglar and crept upstairs.
+As a general thing Matthew gravitated between the kitchen and the little bedroom off the hall where he slept; once in a while he ventured uncomfortably into the parlor or sitting room when the minister came to tea.
+But he had never been upstairs in his own house since the spring he helped Marilla paper the spare bedroom, and that was four years ago.
@@ -33 +33 @@ He tiptoed along the hall and stood for several minutes outside the door of the
-Anne was sitting on the yellow chair by the window, gazing mournfully out into the garden.
+Anne was sitting on the yellow chair by the window gazing mournfully out into the garden.
@@ -49 +48,0 @@ Matthew recollected that he must say what he had come to say without loss of tim
-
@@ -51 +50 @@ Matthew recollected that he must say what he had come to say without loss of tim
-“It’ll have to be done sooner or later, you know, for Marilla’s a dreadful determined woman—dreadful determined, Anne.
+“It’ll have to be done sooner or later, you know, for Marilla’s a dreadful deter-mined woman—dreadful determined, Anne.
@@ -65,2 +64,2 @@ I know I did because I woke up three times and I was just furious every time.
-But this morning it was all over.
-I wasn’t in a temper any more—and it left a dreadful sort of goneness, too.
+But this morning it was over.
+I wasn’t in a temper anymore—and it left a dreadful sort of goneness, too.
@@ -70 +69 @@ It would be so humiliating.
-I made up my mind I’d stay shut up here for ever rather than do that.
+I made up my mind I’d stay shut up here forever rather than do that.
@@ -74,2 +73,2 @@ But still—I’d do anything for you—if you really want me to—”
-It’s terrible lonesome down-stairs without you.
-Just go and smooth it over—that’s a good girl.”
+It’s terrible lonesome downstairs without you.
+Just go and smooth things over—that’s a good girl.”
@@ -78 +77 @@ Just go and smooth it over—that’s a good girl.”
-“I’ll tell Marilla as soon as she comes in that I’ve repented.”
+“I’ll tell Marilla as soon as she comes in I’ve repented.”
@@ -89 +88 @@ He fled hastily to the remotest corner of the horse pasture lest Marilla should
-Marilla herself, upon her return to the house, was agreeably surprised to hear a plaintive voice calling, “Marilla,” over the banisters.
+Marilla herself, upon her return to the house, was agreeably surprised to hear a plaintive voice calling, “Marilla” over the banisters.
@@ -101 +100 @@ Accordingly, after milking, behold Marilla and Anne walking down the lane, the f
-But half-way down Anne’s dejection vanished as if by enchantment.
+But halfway down Anne’s dejection vanished as if by enchantment.
@@ -123 +122 @@ I behaved terribly to you—and I’ve disgraced the dear friends, Matthew and M
-I’m a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people for ever.
+I’m a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever.
@@ -129,2 +128 @@ Oh, Mrs. Lynde, please, please, forgive me.
-If you refuse it will be a lifelong sorrow to me.
-You wouldn’t like to inflict a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl, would you, even if she had a dreadful temper?
+If you refuse it will be a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl, would you, even if she had a dreadful temper?
@@ -138 +136 @@ Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring.
-But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was revelling in the thoroughness of her abasement.
+But the former under-stood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement.
@@ -190 +188 @@ I hope you’ll try to control your temper now, Anne.”
-“That wouldn’t be so hard if people wouldn’t twit me about my looks,” said Anne with a sigh.
+“That wouldn’t be so hard if people wouldn’t twit me about my looks,”  said Anne with a sigh.
@@ -203,2 +201 @@ I pity it because it isn’t beautiful.”
-
-“I’ve had that said to me before, but I have my doubts about it,” remarked sceptical Anne, sniffing at her narcissi.
+“I’ve had that said to me before, but I have my doubts about it,” remarked skeptical Anne, sniffing at her narcissi.
@@ -209 +206 @@ It gives you a lovely, comfortable feeling to apologize and be forgiven, doesn
-Aren’t the stars bright to-night?
+Aren’t the stars bright tonight?
@@ -234 +231 @@ And you should never find it hard to say your prayers.”
-“But I’m going to imagine that I’m the wind that is blowing up there in those tree-tops.
+“But I’m going to imagine that I’m the wind that is blowing up there in those tree tops.
diff --git "a/chapters/11-XI.-Anne\342\200\231s-Impressions-of-Sunday-school.utf8" "b/chapters/11-XI.-Anne\342\200\231s-Impressions-of-Sunday-school.utf8"
index a01ac54..c85691c 100644
--- "a/chapters/11-XI.-Anne\342\200\231s-Impressions-of-Sunday-school.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/11-XI.-Anne\342\200\231s-Impressions-of-Sunday-school.utf8"
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school
+Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-School
@@ -5,2 +5,2 @@ Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school
-Anne was standing in the gable-room, looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed.
-One was of snuffy coloured gingham which Marilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer because it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-white checked sateen which she had picked up at a bargain counter in the winter; and one was a stiff print of an ugly blue shade which she had purchased that week at a Carmody store.
+Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed.
+One was of snuffy colored gingham which Marilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer because it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-white checkered sateen which she had picked up at a bargain counter in the winter; and one was a stiff print of an ugly blue shade which she had purchased that week at a Carmody store.
@@ -28 +28 @@ The brown gingham and the blue print will do you for school when you begin to go
-The sateen is for church and Sunday-school.
+The sateen is for church and Sunday school.
@@ -45,2 +45,2 @@ I prefer the plain, sensible ones.”
-Well, hang those dresses carefully up in your closet, and then sit down and learn the Sunday-school lesson.
-I got a quarterly from Mr. Bell for you and you’ll go to Sunday-school to-morrow,” said Marilla, disappearing down-stairs in high dudgeon.
+Well, hang those dresses carefully up in your closet, and then sit down and learn the Sunday school lesson.
+I got a quarterly from Mr. Bell for you and you’ll go to Sunday school tomorrow,” said Marilla, disappearing downstairs in high dudgeon.
@@ -66 +66 @@ I shall expect you to tell me the text when you come home.”
-Anne started off irreproachably, arrayed in the stiff black-and-white sateen, which, while decent as regards length and certainly not open to the charge of skimpiness, contrived to emphasize every corner and angle of her thin figure.
+Anne started off irreproachable, arrayed in the stiff black-and-white sateen, which, while decent as regards length and certainly not open to the charge of skimpiness, contrived to emphasize every corner and angle of her thin figure.
@@ -68 +68 @@ Her hat was a little, flat, glossy, new sailor, the extreme plainness of which h
-The latter, however, were supplied before Anne reached the main road, for, being confronted half-way down the lane with a golden frenzy of wind-stirred buttercups and a glory of wild roses, Anne promptly and liberally garlanded her hat with a heavy wreath of them.
+The latter, however, were supplied before Anne reached the main road, for being confronted halfway down the lane with a golden frenzy of wind-stirred buttercups and a glory of wild roses, Anne promptly and liberally garlanded her hat with a heavy wreath of them.
@@ -71,2 +71,2 @@ Whatever other people might have thought of the result it satisfied Anne, and sh
-When she reached Mrs. Lynde’s house she found that lady gone.
-Nothing daunted Anne proceeded onward to the church alone.
+When she had reached Mrs. Lynde’s house she found that lady gone.
+Nothing daunted, Anne proceeded onward to the church alone.
@@ -74 +74,2 @@ In the porch she found a crowd of little girls, all more or less gaily attired i
-Avonlea little girls had already heard queer stories about Anne; Mrs. Lynde said she had an awful temper; Jerry Buote, the hired boy at Green Gables, said she talked all the time to herself or to the trees and flowers like a crazy girl.
+Avonlea little girls had already heard queer stories about Anne.
+Mrs. Lynde said she had an awful temper; Jerry Buote, the hired boy at Green Gables, said she talked all the time to herself or to the trees and flowers like a crazy girl.
@@ -85 +86 @@ Anne felt that life was really not worth living without puffed sleeves.
-“Well, how did you like Sunday-school?” Marilla wanted to know when Anne came home.
+“Well, how did you like Sunday school?” Marilla wanted to know when Anne came home.
@@ -96 +97 @@ Anne sat down on the rocker with a long sigh, kissed one of Bonny’s leaves, an
-“And now about the Sunday-school.
+“And now about the Sunday school.
@@ -108,3 +109,2 @@ You should have listened to Mr. Bell.”
-“He was talking to God and he didn’t seem to be very much interested in it, either.
-I think he thought God was too far off to make it worth while.
-I said a little prayer myself, though.
+“He was talking to God and he didn’t seem to be very much inter-ested in it, either.
+I think he thought God was too far off though.
@@ -118 +118 @@ It gave me a thrill and I just said, ‘Thank you for it, God,’ two or three t
-Well, Mr. Bell did get through at last and they told me to go into the class-room with Miss Rogerson’s class.
+Well, Mr. Bell did get through at last and they told me to go into the classroom with Miss Rogerson’s class.
@@ -125 +125 @@ It was as easy as could be to imagine they were puffed when I was alone in the e
-“You shouldn’t have been thinking about your sleeves in Sunday-school.
+“You shouldn’t have been thinking about your sleeves in Sunday school.
@@ -146,2 +146,2 @@ I can hardly wait until next Sunday to recite it.
-I’ll practise it all the week.
-After Sunday-school I asked Miss Rogerson—because Mrs. Lynde was too far away—to show me your pew.
+I’ll practice it all the week.
+After Sunday school I asked Miss Rogerson—because Mrs. Lynde was too far away—to show me your pew.
diff --git a/chapters/12-XII.-A-Solemn-Vow-and-Promise.utf8 b/chapters/12-XII.-A-Solemn-Vow-and-Promise.utf8
index 691bbe6..5b085e8 100644
--- a/chapters/12-XII.-A-Solemn-Vow-and-Promise.utf8
+++ b/chapters/12-XII.-A-Solemn-Vow-and-Promise.utf8
@@ -10 +10,2 @@ A pretty-looking object you must have been!”
-“Oh, I know pink and yellow aren’t becoming to me,” began Anne.
+“Oh.
+I know pink and yellow aren’t becoming to me,” began Anne.
@@ -13 +14 @@ A pretty-looking object you must have been!”
-It was putting flowers on your hat at all, no matter what colour they were, that was ridiculous.
+It was putting flowers on your hat at all, no matter what color they were, that was ridiculous.
@@ -18 +19 @@ You are the most aggravating child!”
-What was the difference?”
+What’s the difference?”
@@ -47 +48 @@ I’m going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs. Barry, and if yo
-Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish-towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.
+Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.
@@ -56 +57 @@ It sounds so funny in a little girl.
-I guess Diana’ll like you well enough.
+I guess Diana ’ll like you well enough.
@@ -60 +61 @@ If she has heard about your outburst to Mrs. Lynde and going to church with butt
-You must be polite and well-behaved, and don’t make any of your startling speeches.
+You must be polite and well behaved, and don’t make any of your startling speeches.
@@ -70 +71 @@ Mrs. Barry came to the kitchen door in answer to Marilla’s knock.
-She was a tall, black-eyed, black-haired woman, with a very resolute mouth.
+She was a tall black-eyed, black-haired woman, with a very resolute mouth.
@@ -79 +80 @@ And this is the little girl you have adopted, I suppose?”
-“Spelled with an _e_,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
+“Spelled with an E,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
@@ -85 +86 @@ Mrs. Barry, not hearing or not comprehending, merely shook hands and said kindly
-“I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma’am,” said Anne gravely.
+“I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit, thank you ma’am,” said Anne gravely.
@@ -91 +92 @@ She was a very pretty little girl, with her mother’s black eyes and hair, and
-“This is my little girl, Diana,” said Mrs. Barry.
+“This is my little girl Diana,” said Mrs. Barry.
@@ -98 +99 @@ I’m glad she has the prospect of a playmate—perhaps it will take her more ou
-Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at one another over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.
+Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.
@@ -102 +103 @@ It was encircled by huge old willows and tall firs, beneath which flourished flo
-Prim, right-angled paths, neatly bordered with clam-shells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
+Prim, right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
@@ -105 +106 @@ There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragr
-“Oh, Diana,” said Anne at last, clasping her hands and speaking almost in a whisper, “do you think—oh, do you think you can like me a little—enough to be my bosom friend?”
+“Oh, Diana,” said Anne at last, clasping her hands and speaking almost in a whisper, “oh, do you think you can like me a little—enough to be my bosom friend?”
@@ -115 +116 @@ There isn’t any other girl who lives near enough to play with, and I’ve no s
-“Will you swear to be my friend for ever and ever?” demanded Anne eagerly.
+“Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?” demanded Anne eagerly.
@@ -119 +120 @@ Diana looked shocked.
-“Why, it’s dreadfully wicked to swear,” she said rebukingly.
+“Why it’s dreadfully wicked to swear,” she said rebukingly.
@@ -153,5 +154,5 @@ At the brook they parted with many promises to spend the next afternoon together
-“Oh, yes,” sighed Anne, blissfully unconscious of any sarcasm on Marilla’s part.
-“Oh, Marilla, I’m the happiest girl on Prince Edward Island this very moment.
-I assure you I’ll say my prayers with a right good-will to-night.
-Diana and I are going to build a playhouse in Mr. William Bell’s birch grove to-morrow.
-Can I have those broken pieces of china that are out in the wood-shed?
+“Oh yes,” sighed Anne, blissfully unconscious of any sarcasm on Marilla’s part.
+“Oh Marilla, I’m the happiest girl on Prince Edward Island this very moment.
+I assure you I’ll say my prayers with a right good-will tonight.
+Diana and I are going to build a playhouse in Mr. William Bell’s birch grove tomorrow.
+Can I have those broken pieces of china that are out in the woodshed?
@@ -161 +162 @@ Diana is going to lend me a book to read.
-She says it’s perfectly splendid and tremenjusly exciting.
+She says it’s perfectly splendid and tremendously exciting.
@@ -174 +175 @@ I read a story once about a spring called that.
-A dryad is a sort of grown-up fairy, I think.”
+A dryad is sort of a grown-up fairy, I think.”
@@ -192 +193 @@ They’re wholesomer.
-Don’t sicken yourself eating them all at once now.”
+Don’t sicken yourself eating all them at once now.”
@@ -195 +196 @@ Don’t sicken yourself eating them all at once now.”
-“I’ll just eat one to-night, Marilla.
+“I’ll just eat one tonight, Marilla.
@@ -204 +205 @@ I can’t imagine the place without her.
-Now, don’t be looking I-told-you-so, Matthew.
+Now, don’t be looking I told-you-so, Matthew.
diff --git a/chapters/13-XIII.-The-Delights-of-Anticipation.utf8 b/chapters/13-XIII.-The-Delights-of-Anticipation.utf8
index 4b37ab9..7da1a3a 100644
--- a/chapters/13-XIII.-The-Delights-of-Anticipation.utf8
+++ b/chapters/13-XIII.-The-Delights-of-Anticipation.utf8
@@ -4 +4 @@ The Delights of Anticipation
-“She stayed playing with Diana more than half an hour more’n I gave her leave to; and now she’s perched out there on the woodpile talking to Matthew, nineteen to the dozen, when she knows perfectly well that she ought to be at her work.
+“She stayed playing with Diana more than half an hour more’n I gave her leave to; and now she’s perched out there on the woodpile talking to Matthew, nineteen to the dozen, when she knows perfectly well she ought to be at her work.
@@ -12,3 +12,3 @@ A series of staccato taps on the west window brought Anne flying in from the yar
-“Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed breathlessly, “there’s going to be a Sunday-school picnic next week—in Mr. Harmon Andrews’ field, right near the Lake of Shining Waters.
-And Mrs. Superintendent Bell and Mrs. Rachel Lynde are going to make ice-cream—think of it, Marilla—_ice-cream!_
-And oh, Marilla, can I go to it?”
+“Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed breathlessly, “there’s going to be a Sunday-school picnic next week—in Mr. Harmon Andrews’s field, right near the lake of Shining Waters.
+And Mrs. Superintendent Bell and Mrs. Rachel Lynde are going to make ice cream—think of it, Marilla—_ice cream!_
+And, oh, Marilla, can I go to it?”
@@ -58,3 +58,3 @@ As for cooking, I mean to begin giving you lessons in that some of these days.
-But you’re so feather-brained, Anne, I’ve been waiting to see if you’d sober down a little and learn to be steady before I begin.
-You’ve got to keep your wits about you in cooking and not stop in the middle of things to let your thoughts rove over all creation.
-Now, get out your patchwork and have your square done before tea-time.”
+But you’re so featherbrained, Anne, I’ve been waiting to see if you’d sober down a little and learn to be steady before I begin.
+You’ve got to keep your wits about you in cooking and not stop in the middle of things to let your thoughts rove all over creation.
+Now, get out your patchwork and have your square done before teatime.”
@@ -85 +85 @@ There’s a piece of a plate with a spray of red and yellow ivy on it that is es
-We keep it in the parlour and we have the fairy glass there, too.
+We keep it in the parlor and we have the fairy glass there, too.
@@ -89 +89 @@ It’s all full of rainbows—just little young rainbows that haven’t grown bi
-But it’s nicer to imagine the fairies lost it one night when they had a ball, so we call it the fairy glass.
+But it’s nice to imagine the fairies lost it one night when they had a ball, so we call it the fairy glass.
@@ -110,3 +110,3 @@ It wouldn’t matter if I got to a hundred picnics in after years; they wouldn
-They’re going to have boats on the Lake of Shining Waters—and ice-cream as I told you.
-I have never tasted ice-cream.
-Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice-cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.”
+They’re going to have boats on the Lake of Shining Waters—and ice cream, as I told you.
+I have never tasted ice cream.
+Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.”
@@ -119 +119 @@ But for the rest of the week she talked picnic and thought picnic and dreamed pi
-On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and over Wednesday, that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves.
+On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and over Wednesday that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves.
@@ -128 +128 @@ But when a minister says a thing in the pulpit you just have to believe it.”
-“You set your heart too much on things, Anne,” said Marilla with a sigh.
+“You set your heart too much on things, Anne,” said Marilla, with a sigh.
@@ -140 +140 @@ That amethyst brooch was Marilla’s most treasured possession.
-A sea-faring uncle had given it to her mother who in turn had bequeathed it to Marilla.
+A seafaring uncle had given it to her mother who in turn had bequeathed it to Marilla.
@@ -148 +148 @@ I don’t know how you can pay attention to the sermon or the prayers when you h
-_I_ couldn’t, I know.
+I couldn’t, I know.
diff --git "a/chapters/14-XIV.-Anne\342\200\231s-Confession.utf8" "b/chapters/14-XIV.-Anne\342\200\231s-Confession.utf8"
index 343425d..878e733 100644
--- "a/chapters/14-XIV.-Anne\342\200\231s-Confession.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/14-XIV.-Anne\342\200\231s-Confession.utf8"
@@ -5 +5 @@ On the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room with a t
-“Anne,” she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the spotless table and singing “Nelly of the Hazel Dell” with a vigour and expression that did credit to Diana’s teaching, “did you see anything of my amethyst brooch?
+“Anne,” she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the spotless table and singing, “Nelly of the Hazel Dell” with a vigor and expression that did credit to Diana’s teaching, “did you see anything of my amethyst brooch?
@@ -31 +31 @@ You’ve taken it out or something, Anne.”
-“I _did_ put it back,” said Anne quickly—pertly, Marilla thought.
+“I did put it back,” said Anne quickly—pertly, Marilla thought.
@@ -73 +73 @@ She’s just taken it to play with or help along that imagination of hers.
-She must have taken it, that’s clear, for there hasn’t been a soul in that room since she was in it, by her own story, until I went up to-night.
+She must have taken it, that’s clear, for there hasn’t been a soul in that room since she was in it, by her own story, until I went up tonight.
@@ -84 +84 @@ Marilla went to her room at intervals all through the evening and searched for t
-A bed-time visit to the east gable produced no result.
+A bedtime visit to the east gable produced no result.
@@ -92 +92 @@ Matthew was confounded and puzzled; he could not so quickly lose faith in Anne b
-“I’ve moved the bureau and I’ve taken out the drawers and I’ve looked in every crack and cranny,” was Marilla’s positive answer.
+“I’ve moved the bureau and I’ve taken out the drawers and I’ve looked in every crack and cranny” was Marilla’s positive answer.
@@ -107 +107 @@ You warned me off yourself.”
-Marilla felt deserted by every one.
+Marilla felt deserted by everyone.
@@ -118 +118 @@ You can make up your mind to that,” she said firmly.
-“But the picnic is to-morrow, Marilla,” cried Anne.
+“But the picnic is tomorrow, Marilla,” cried Anne.
@@ -121 +121 @@ You’ll just let me out for the afternoon, won’t you?
-Then I’ll stay here as long as you like afterwards _cheerfully_.
+Then I’ll stay here as long as you like _afterwards_ cheerfully.
@@ -149 +149 @@ It would be so much easier to imagine I was the Lady Cordelia if I had a real am
-Diana and I made necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts?
+Diana and I make necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts?
@@ -170 +170 @@ Won’t you please get it over right off because I’d like to go to the picnic
-You’ll go to no picnic to-day, Anne Shirley.
+You’ll go to no picnic today, Anne Shirley.
@@ -181,2 +181,2 @@ Oh, Marilla, please, please, let me go to the picnic.
-Think of the ice-cream!
-For anything you know I may never have a chance to taste ice-cream again.”
+Think of the ice cream!
+For anything you know I may never have a chance to taste ice cream again.”
@@ -191 +191 @@ Anne realized that Marilla was not to be moved.
-She clasped her hands together, gave a piercing shriek, and then flung herself face downwards on the bed, crying and writhing in an utter abandonment of disappointment and despair.
+She clasped her hands together, gave a piercing shriek, and then flung herself face downward on the bed, crying and writhing in an utter abandonment of disappointment and despair.
@@ -198 +198 @@ Oh dear, I’m afraid Rachel was right from the first.
-But I’ve put my hand to the plough and I won’t look back.”
+But I’ve put my hand to the plow and I won’t look back.”
@@ -210 +210 @@ A tear-stained face appeared, looking tragically over the banisters.
-“I don’t want any dinner, Marilla,” said Anne sobbingly.
+“I don’t want any dinner, Marilla,” said Anne, sobbingly.
@@ -213 +213 @@ My heart is broken.
-You’ll feel remorse of conscience some day, I expect, for breaking it, Marilla, but I forgive you.
+You’ll feel remorse of conscience someday, I expect, for breaking it, Marilla, but I forgive you.
@@ -218 +218 @@ Boiled pork and greens are so unromantic when one is in affliction.”
-Exasperated Marilla returned to the kitchen and poured out her tale of woe to Matthew, who, between his sense of justice and his unlawful sympathy with Anne, was a miserable man.
+Exasperated, Marilla returned to the kitchen and poured out her tale of woe to Matthew, who, between his sense of justice and his unlawful sympathy with Anne, was a miserable man.
@@ -233 +233 @@ You know she’s never had any bringing up.”
-“Well, she’s having it now,” retorted Marilla.
+“Well, she’s having it now” retorted Marilla.
@@ -240 +239,0 @@ When her dishes were washed and her bread sponge set and her hens fed Marilla re
-She would go and mend it.
@@ -241,0 +241 @@ She would go and mend it.
+She would go and mend it.
@@ -288 +288 @@ And I’ll get Jerry to hitch up the sorrel and drive you down to the picnic gro
-“Oh, Marilla,” exclaimed Anne, flying to the wash-stand.
+“Oh, Marilla,” exclaimed Anne, flying to the washstand.
@@ -291 +291 @@ And I’ll get Jerry to hitch up the sorrel and drive you down to the picnic gro
-That night a thoroughly happy, completely tired out Anne returned to Green Gables in a state of beatification impossible to describe.
+That night a thoroughly happy, completely tired-out Anne returned to Green Gables in a state of beatification impossible to describe.
@@ -294 +294 @@ That night a thoroughly happy, completely tired out Anne returned to Green Gable
-Scrumptious is a new word I learned to-day.
+Scrumptious is a new word I learned today.
@@ -300 +300 @@ And Jane Andrews nearly fell overboard.
-She was leaning out to pick water lilies and if Mr. Andrews hadn’t caught her by her sash just in the nick of time she’d have fallen in and prob’ly been drowned.
+She was leaning out to pick water lilies and if Mr. Andrews hadn’t caught her by her sash just in the nick of time she’d fallen in and prob’ly been drowned.
@@ -304,2 +304,2 @@ It would be such a thrilling tale to tell.
-And we had the ice-cream.
-Words fail me to describe that ice-cream.
+And we had the ice cream.
+Words fail me to describe that ice cream.
diff --git a/chapters/15-XV.-A-Tempest-in-the-School-Teapot.utf8 b/chapters/15-XV.-A-Tempest-in-the-School-Teapot.utf8
index 5060082..3d22812 100644
--- a/chapters/15-XV.-A-Tempest-in-the-School-Teapot.utf8
+++ b/chapters/15-XV.-A-Tempest-in-the-School-Teapot.utf8
@@ -26 +26 @@ So romantic!
-We can imagine the lovers into it, you know.
+We can’t imagine the lovers into it, you know.
@@ -30 +30 @@ Anne, starting out alone in the morning, went down Lover’s Lane as far as the
-Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples—“maples are such sociable trees,” said Anne; “they’re always rustling and whispering to you,”—until they came to a rustic bridge.
+Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples—“maples are such sociable trees,” said Anne; “they’re always rustling and whispering to you”—until they came to a rustic bridge.
@@ -33 +33 @@ Beyond Willowmere came Violet Vale—a little green dimple in the shadow of Mr.
-“Of course there are no violets there now,” Anne told Marilla, “but Diana says there are millions of them in spring.
+“Of course there are no violets there now,”  Anne told Marilla, “but Diana says there are millions of them in spring.
@@ -47 +47 @@ It was a little narrow, twisting path, winding down over a long hill straight th
-It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white-stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeon berries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead.
+It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead.
@@ -51 +51 @@ Down in the valley the path came out to the main road and then it was just up th
-The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school-children.
+The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.
@@ -63,3 +63,3 @@ Anne came home that evening in high spirits.
-“I don’t think much of the master, though.
-He’s all the time curling his moustache and making eyes at Prissy Andrews.
-Prissy is grown-up, you know.
+“I don’t think much of the master, through.
+He’s all the time curling his mustache and making eyes at Prissy Andrews.
+Prissy is grown up, you know.
@@ -74 +74 @@ But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate and when Prissy
-I guess he can teach _you_ something and it’s your business to learn.
+I guess he can teach _you_ something, and it’s your business to learn.
@@ -83 +83 @@ Our seat is right by the window and we can look down to the Lake of Shining Wate
-There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinner time.
+There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinnertime.
@@ -91 +91 @@ But there’s not one of them has such an imagination as I have and I soon found
-We had reading and geography and Canadian History and dictation to-day.
+We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
@@ -95 +95 @@ Ruby Gillis gave me an apple and Sophia Sloane lent me a lovely pink card with 
-I’m to give it back to her to-morrow.
+I’m to give it back to her tomorrow.
@@ -98 +98 @@ Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to mak
-And oh Marilla, Jane Andrews told me that Minnie MacPherson told her that she heard Prissy Andrews tell Sara Gillis that I had a very pretty nose.
+And oh, Marilla, Jane Andrews told me that Minnie MacPherson told her that she heard Prissy Andrews tell Sara Gillis that I had a very pretty nose.
@@ -104 +104 @@ I know you’ll tell me the truth.”
-Secretly she thought Anne’s nose was a remarkably pretty one; but she had no intention of telling her so.
+Secretly she thought Anne’s nose was a remarkable pretty one; but she had no intention of telling her so.
@@ -109 +109 @@ And now, this crisp September morning, Anne and Diana were tripping blithely dow
-“I guess Gilbert Blythe will be in school to-day,” said Diana.
+“I guess Gilbert Blythe will be in school today,” said Diana.
@@ -118 +118 @@ Diana’s voice indicated that she rather liked having her life tormented out th
-“Isn’t it his name that’s written up on the porch wall with Julia Bell’s and a big ‘Take Notice’ over them?”
+“Isn’t his name that’s written up on the porch wall with Julia Bell’s and a big ‘Take Notice’ over them?”
@@ -138 +138 @@ He told his mother—his _mother_, mind you—that you were the smartest girl in
-That’s better than being good-looking.”
+That’s better than being good looking.”
@@ -142,3 +142,2 @@ That’s better than being good-looking.”
-And I hate Charlie Sloane.
-I can’t bear a boy with goggle eyes.
-If any one wrote my name up with his I’d _never_ get over it, Diana Barry.
+And I hate Charlie Sloane, I can’t bear a boy with goggle eyes.
+If anyone wrote my name up with his I’d never _get_ over it, Diana Barry.
@@ -165,3 +164 @@ I don’t speak to her now.”
-When Mr. Phillips was in the back of the room hearing Prissy Andrews’ Latin Diana whispered to Anne,
-
-“That’s Gilbert Blythe sitting right across the aisle from you, Anne.
+When Mr. Phillips was in the back of the room hearing Prissy Andrews’s Latin, Diana whispered to Anne, “That’s Gilbert Blythe sitting right across the aisle from you, Anne.
@@ -172 +169 @@ She had a good chance to do so, for the said Gilbert Blythe was absorbed in stea
-He was a tall boy, with curly brown hair, roguish hazel eyes and a mouth twisted into a teasing smile.
+He was a tall boy, with curly brown hair, roguish hazel eyes, and a mouth twisted into a teasing smile.
@@ -182,3 +179,3 @@ But it was not until the afternoon that things really began to happen.
-Mr. Phillips was back in the corner explaining a problem in algebra to Prissy Andrews and the rest of the scholars were doing pretty much as they pleased, eating green apples, whispering, drawing pictures on their slates, and driving crickets, harnessed to strings, up and down the aisle.
-Gilbert Blythe was trying to make Anne Shirley look at him and failing utterly, because Anne was at that moment totally oblivious, not only of the very existence of Gilbert Blythe, but of every other scholar in Avonlea school and of Avonlea school itself.
-With her chin propped on her hands and her eyes fixed on the blue glimpse of the Lake of Shining Waters that the west window afforded, she was far away in a gorgeous dreamland, hearing and seeing nothing save her own wonderful visions.
+Mr. Phillips was back in the corner explaining a problem in algebra to Prissy Andrews and the rest of the scholars were doing pretty much as they pleased eating green apples, whispering, drawing pictures on their slates, and driving crickets harnessed to strings, up and down aisle.
+Gilbert Blythe was trying to make Anne Shirley look at him and failing utterly, because Anne was at that moment totally oblivious not only to the very existence of Gilbert Blythe, but of every other scholar in Avonlea school itself.
+With her chin propped on her hands and her eyes fixed on the blue glimpse of the Lake of Shining Waters that the west window afforded, she was far away in a gorgeous dreamland hearing and seeing nothing save her own wonderful visions.
@@ -189 +186 @@ She _should_ look at him, that red-haired Shirley girl with the little pointed c
-Gilbert reached across the aisle, picked up the end of Anne’s long red braid, held it out at arm’s length and said in a piercing whisper,
+Gilbert reached across the aisle, picked up the end of Anne’s long red braid, held it out at arm’s length and said in a piercing whisper:
@@ -203,2 +200,2 @@ She flashed one indignant glance at Gilbert from eyes whose angry sparkle was sw
-And then—Thwack!
-Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert’s head and cracked it—slate, not head—clear across.
+And then—thwack!
+Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert’s head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across.
@@ -208 +205 @@ This was an especially enjoyable one.
-Everybody said, “Oh” in horrified delight.
+Everybody said “Oh” in horrified delight.
@@ -216 +212,0 @@ Mr. Phillips stalked down the aisle and laid his hand heavily on Anne’s should
-
@@ -221 +217 @@ Gilbert it was who spoke up stoutly.
-“It was my fault, Mr. Phillips.
+“It was my fault Mr. Phillips.
@@ -229 +225 @@ Mr. Phillips paid no heed to Gilbert.
-Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment, under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash.
+Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash.
@@ -247 +243 @@ Gilbert Blythe tried to intercept her at the porch door.
-“I’m awful sorry I made fun of your hair, Anne,” he whispered contritely.
+“I’m awfully sorry I made fun of your hair, Anne,” he whispered contritely.
@@ -252 +248 @@ Anne swept by disdainfully, without look or sign of hearing.
-“Oh, how could you, Anne?” breathed Diana as they went down the road, half reproachfully, half admiringly.
+“Oh how could you, Anne?” breathed Diana as they went down the road half reproachfully, half admiringly.
@@ -256 +252 @@ Diana felt that _she_ could never have resisted Gilbert’s plea.
-“And Mr. Phillips spelled my name without an _e_, too.
+“And Mr. Phillips spelled my name without an e, too.
@@ -276,2 +272,2 @@ When they saw Mr. Phillips emerging therefrom they ran for the schoolhouse; but
-On the following day Mr. Phillips was seized with one of his spasmodic fits of reform and announced, before going home to dinner, that he should expect to find all the scholars in their seats when he returned.
-Any one who came in late would be punished.
+On the following day Mr. Phillips was seized with one of his spasmodic fits of reform and announced before going home to dinner, that he should expect to find all the scholars in their seats when he returned.
+Anyone who came in late would be punished.
@@ -280 +276 @@ All the boys and some of the girls went to Mr. Bell’s spruce grove as usual, f
-But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce, “Master’s coming.”
+But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce “Master’s coming.”
@@ -282 +278 @@ But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked an
-The girls, who were on the ground, started first and managed to reach the schoolhouse in time but without a second to spare.
+The girls who were on the ground, started first and managed to reach the schoolhouse in time but without a second to spare.
@@ -286 +282 @@ Anne could run like a deer, however; run she did with the impish result that she
-Mr. Phillips’ brief reforming energy was over; he didn’t want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with her forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and dishevelled appearance.
+Mr. Phillips’s brief reforming energy was over; he didn’t want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance.
@@ -297 +293 @@ Anne stared at the master as if turned to stone.
-“Yes, sir,” said Anne slowly, “but I didn’t suppose you really meant it.”
+“Yes, sir,” said Anne slowly “but I didn’t suppose you really meant it.”
@@ -299 +295 @@ Anne stared at the master as if turned to stone.
-“I assure you I did,”—still with the sarcastic inflection which all the children, and Anne especially, hated.
+“I assure you I did”—still with the sarcastic inflection which all the children, and Anne especially, hated.
@@ -308,2 +304,2 @@ To Anne, this was as the end of all things.
-It was bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among a dozen equally guilty ones; it was worse still to be sent to sit with a boy; but that that boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury to a degree utterly unbearable.
-Anne felt that she could _not_ bear it and it would be of no use to try.
+It was bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among a dozen equally guilty ones; it was worse still to be sent to sit with a boy, but that that boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury to a degree utterly unbearable.
+Anne felt that she could not bear it and it would be of no use to try.
@@ -314 +310 @@ But as Anne never lifted her head and as Gilbert worked fractions as if his whol
-When Mr. Phillips called the history class out Anne should have gone; but Anne did not move, and Mr. Phillips, who had been writing some verses “To Priscilla” before he called the class, was thinking about an obstinate rhyme still and never missed her.
+When Mr. Phillips called the history class out Anne should have gone, but Anne did not move, and Mr. Phillips, who had been writing some verses “To Priscilla” before he called the class, was thinking about an obstinate rhyme still and never missed her.
@@ -324 +319,0 @@ She had not dared to ask the question before.
-
@@ -346,2 +341,2 @@ You harrow up my very soul.”
-It’s tremenjusly exciting.
-And we’re going to learn a new song—Jane Andrews is practising it up now; and Alice Andrews is going to bring a new Pansy book next week and we’re all going to read it out loud, chapter about, down by the brook.
+It’s tremendously exciting.
+And we’re going to learn a new song—Jane Andrews is practicing it up now; and Alice Andrews is going to bring a new Pansy book next week and we’re all going to read it out loud, chapter about, down by the brook.
@@ -361 +356 @@ I’ve been insulted.”
-You’ll go to school to-morrow as usual.”
+You’ll go to school tomorrow as usual.”
@@ -367 +362 @@ I’ll learn my lessons at home and I’ll be as good as I can be and hold my to
-But I will not go back to school I assure you.”
+But I will not go back to school, I assure you.”
@@ -370,2 +365 @@ Marilla saw something remarkably like unyielding stubbornness looking out of Ann
-She understood that she would have trouble in overcoming it; but she resolved wisely to say nothing more just then.
-
+She understood that she would have trouble in overcoming it; but she re-solved wisely to say nothing more just then.
@@ -395 +389 @@ I knew things were going too smooth to last.
-She’s so high-strung.
+She’s so high strung.
@@ -398 +392 @@ What would you advise, Rachel?”
-“Well, since you’ve asked my advice, Marilla,” said Mrs. Lynde amiably—Mrs. Lynde dearly loved to be asked for advice—“I’d just humour her a little at first, that’s what I’d do.
+“Well, since you’ve asked my advice, Marilla,” said Mrs. Lynde amiably—Mrs. Lynde dearly loved to be asked for advice—“I’d just humor her a little at first, that’s what I’d do.
@@ -402 +396 @@ And of course he did right to punish her yesterday for giving way to temper.
-But to-day it was different.
+But today it was different.
@@ -407 +401 @@ Tillie Boulter was real indignant.
-She took Anne’s part right through and said all the scholars did, too.
+She took Anne’s part right through and said all the scholars did too.
@@ -414 +408 @@ I never thought she’d take with them so well.”
-That is, I wouldn’t say school to her again until she said it herself.
+That is I wouldn’t say school to her again until she said it herself.
@@ -426 +420 @@ Marilla took Mrs. Rachel’s advice and not another word was said to Anne about
-She learned her lessons at home, did her chores, and played with Diana in the chilly purple autumn twilights; but when she met Gilbert Blythe on the road or encountered him in Sunday-school she passed him by with an icy contempt that was no whit thawed by his evident desire to appease her.
+She learned her lessons at home, did her chores, and played with Diana in the chilly purple autumn twilights; but when she met Gilbert Blythe on the road or encountered him in Sunday school she passed him by with an icy contempt that was no whit thawed by his evident desire to appease her.
@@ -431 +425 @@ As much as she hated Gilbert, however, did she love Diana, with all the love of
-One evening Marilla, coming in from the orchard with a basket of apples, found Anne sitting alone by the east window in the twilight, crying bitterly.
+One evening Marilla, coming in from the orchard with a basket of apples, found Anne sitting along by the east window in the twilight, crying bitterly.
@@ -441,3 +435,2 @@ I hate her husband—I just hate him furiously.
-I’ve been imagining it all out—the wedding and everything—Diana dressed in snowy garments, with a veil, and looking as beautiful and regal as a queen; and me the bridesmaid, with a lovely dress, too, and puffed sleeves, but with a breaking heart hid beneath my smiling face.
-And then bidding Diana good-bye-e-e—”
-Here Anne broke down entirely and wept with increasing bitterness.
+I’ve been imagining it all out—the wedding and everything—Diana dressed in snowy garments, with a veil, and looking as beautiful and regal as a queen; and me the bridesmaid, with a lovely dress too, and puffed sleeves, but with a breaking heart hid beneath my smiling face.
+And then bidding Diana goodbye-e-e—” Here Anne broke down entirely and wept with increasing bitterness.
diff --git a/chapters/16-XVI.-Diana-Is-Invited-to-Tea-with-Tragic-Results.utf8 b/chapters/16-XVI.-Diana-Is-Invited-to-Tea-with-Tragic-Results.utf8
index 887981d..5d1a497 100644
--- a/chapters/16-XVI.-Diana-Is-Invited-to-Tea-with-Tragic-Results.utf8
+++ b/chapters/16-XVI.-Diana-Is-Invited-to-Tea-with-Tragic-Results.utf8
@@ -3 +3 @@ Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
-October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry-trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths.
+October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths.
@@ -5 +5 @@ October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow tu
-Anne revelled in the world of colour about her.
+Anne reveled in the world of color about her.
@@ -13 +13 @@ I’m going to decorate my room with them.”
-“Messy things,” said Marilla, whose æsthetic sense was not noticeably developed.
+“Messy things,” said Marilla, whose aesthetic sense was not noticeably developed.
@@ -22 +22 @@ I’m going to put these boughs in the old blue jug and set them on my table.”
-I’m going to a meeting of the Aid Society at Carmody this afternoon, Anne, and I won’t likely be home before dark.
+I’m going on a meeting of the Aid Society at Carmody this afternoon, Anne, and I won’t likely be home before dark.
@@ -25 +25 @@ You’ll have to get Matthew and Jerry their supper, so mind you don’t forget
-“It was dreadful of me to forget, said Anne apologetically, “but that was the afternoon I was trying to think of a name for Violet Vale and it crowded other things out.
+“It was dreadful of me to forget,” said Anne apologetically, “but that was the afternoon I was trying to think of a name for Violet Vale and it crowded other things out.
@@ -35 +35 @@ But you keep your wits about you this time.
-And—I don’t really know if I’m doing right—it may make you more addle-pated than ever—but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here.”
+And—I don’t really know if I’m doing right—it may make you more addlepated than ever—but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here.”
@@ -43 +43 @@ No fear of my forgetting to put the tea to draw when I have company.
-Oh, Marilla, can I use the rosebud spray tea-set?”
+Oh, Marilla, can I use the rosebud spray tea set?”
@@ -46 +46 @@ Oh, Marilla, can I use the rosebud spray tea-set?”
-The rosebud tea-set!
+The rosebud tea set!
@@ -49 +49 @@ You know I never use that except for the minister or the Aids.
-You’ll put down the old brown tea-set.
+You’ll put down the old brown tea set.
@@ -52 +52 @@ It’s time it was being used anyhow—I believe it’s beginning to work.
-And you can cut some fruit-cake and have some of the cookies and snaps.”
+And you can cut some fruit cake and have some of the cookies and snaps.”
@@ -57 +57 @@ I know she doesn’t but of course I’ll ask her just as if I didn’t know.
-And then pressing her to take another piece of fruit-cake and another helping of preserves.
+And then pressing her to take another piece of fruit cake and another helping of preserves.
@@ -60 +60 @@ Can I take her into the spare room to lay off her hat when she comes?
-And then into the parlour to sit?”
+And then into the parlor to sit?”
@@ -63 +63 @@ And then into the parlour to sit?”
-The sitting-room will do for you and your company.
+The sitting room will do for you and your company.
@@ -68 +68 @@ Anne flew down to the hollow, past the Dryad’s Bubble and up the spruce path t
-As a result, just after Marilla had driven off to Carmody, Diana came over, dressed in her second best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea.
+As a result just after Marilla had driven off to Carmody, Diana came over, dressed in _her_ second-best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea.
@@ -70,2 +70,2 @@ At other times she was wont to run into the kitchen without knocking; but now sh
-And when Anne, dressed in _her_ second best, as primly opened it, both little girls shook hands as gravely as if they had never met before.
-This unnatural solemnity lasted until after Diana had been taken to the east gable to lay off her hat and then had sat for ten minutes in the sitting-room, toes in position.
+And when Anne, dressed in her second best, as primly opened it, both little girls shook hands as gravely as if they had never met before.
+This unnatural solemnity lasted until after Diana had been taken to the east gable to lay off her hat and then had sat for ten minutes in the sitting room, toes in position.
@@ -76 +76 @@ This unnatural solemnity lasted until after Diana had been taken to the east gab
-I suppose Mr. Cuthbert is hauling potatoes to the _Lily Sands_ this afternoon, is he?” said Diana, who had ridden down to Mr. Harmon Andrews’ that morning in Matthew’s cart.
+I suppose Mr. Cuthbert is hauling potatoes to the _lily sands_ this afternoon, is he?” said Diana, who had ridden down to Mr. Harmon Andrews’s that morning in Matthew’s cart.
@@ -80 +80 @@ Our potato crop is very good this year.
-I hope your father’s potato crop is good, too.”
+I hope your father’s crop is good too.”
@@ -85 +85 @@ Have you picked many of your apples yet?”
-“Oh, ever so many,” said Anne, forgetting to be dignified and jumping up quickly.
+“Oh, ever so many,” said Anne forgetting to be dignified and jumping up quickly.
@@ -89 +89 @@ Marilla is a very generous woman.
-She said we could have fruit-cake and cherry preserves for tea.
+She said we could have fruit cake and cherry preserves for tea.
@@ -91 +91 @@ But it isn’t good manners to tell your company what you are going to give them
-Only it begins with an _r_ and a _c_ and it’s a bright red colour.
+Only it begins with an R and a C and it’s bright red color.
@@ -93 +93 @@ I love bright red drinks, don’t you?
-They taste twice as good as any other colour.”
+They taste twice as good as any other color.”
@@ -99 +99 @@ You had to rub the warts with the pebble and then throw it away over your left s
-Charlie Sloane’s name was written up with Em White’s on the porch wall and Em White was _awful mad_ about it; Sam Boulter had “sassed” Mr. Phillips in class and Mr. Phillips whipped him and Sam’s father came down to the school and dared Mr. Phillips to lay a hand on one of his children again; and Mattie Andrews had a new red hood and a blue crossover with tassels on it and the airs she put on about it were perfectly sickening; and Lizzie Wright didn’t speak to Mamie Wilson because Mamie Wilson’s grown-up sister had cut out Lizzie Wright’s grown-up sister with her beau; and everybody missed Anne so and wished she’d come to school again; and Gilbert Blythe—
+Charlie Sloane’s name was written up with Em White’s on the porch wall and Em White was _awful mad_ about it; Sam Boulter had “sassed” Mr. Phillips in class and Mr. Phillips whipped him and Sam’s father came down to the school and dared Mr. Phillips to lay a hand on one of his children again; and Mattie Andrews had a new red hood and a blue crossover with tassels on it and the airs she put on about it were perfectly sickening; and Lizzie Wright didn’t speak to Mamie Wilson because Mamie Wilson’s grown-up sister had cut out Lizzie Wright’s grown-up sister with her beau; and everybody missed Anne so and wished she’s come to school again; and Gilbert Blythe—
@@ -112 +112 @@ I don’t feel as if I wanted any after all those apples.”
-Diana poured herself out a tumblerful, looked at its bright red hue admiringly, and then sipped it daintily.
+Diana poured herself out a tumblerful, looked at its bright-red hue admiringly, and then sipped it daintily.
@@ -126 +126 @@ The tumblerfuls were generous ones and the raspberry cordial was certainly very
-“It’s ever so much nicer than Mrs. Lynde’s although she brags of hers so much.
+“It’s ever so much nicer than Mrs. Lynde’s, although she brags of hers so much.
@@ -155 +155 @@ I tried to be as polite and dignified as I could be, for I wanted Mrs. Chester R
-Everything went right until I saw Marilla coming with the plum pudding in one hand and the pitcher of pudding sauce, _warmed up_, in the other.
+Everything went right until I saw Marilla coming with the plum pudding in one hand and the pitcher of pudding sauce _warmed up_, in the other.
@@ -157 +157 @@ Diana, that was a terrible moment.
-I remembered everything and I just stood up in my place and shrieked out, ‘Marilla, you mustn’t use that pudding sauce.
+I remembered everything and I just stood up in my place and shrieked out ‘Marilla, you mustn’t use that pudding sauce.
@@ -167 +167 @@ It was like heaping coals of fire on my head.
-After Mrs. Chester Ross went away Marilla gave me a dreadful scolding.
+After Mrs. Chester Ross went away, Marilla gave me a dreadful scolding.
@@ -181 +181 @@ Diana had stood up very unsteadily; then she sat down again, putting her hands t
-“Let me give you a bit of fruit-cake and some of the cherry preserves.
+“Let me give you a bit of fruit cake and some of the cherry preserves.
@@ -203 +203 @@ Monday afternoon Marilla sent her down to Mrs. Lynde’s on an errand.
-In a very short space of time Anne came flying back up the lane, with tears rolling down her cheeks.
+In a very short space of time Anne came flying back up the lane with tears rolling down her cheeks.
@@ -216 +216 @@ Anne sat up, tragedy personified.
-“Mrs. Lynde was up to see Mrs. Barry to-day and Mrs. Barry was in an awful state,” she wailed.
+“Mrs. Lynde was up to see Mrs. Barry today and Mrs. Barry was in an awful state,” she wailed.
@@ -224 +224 @@ Marilla stared in blank amazement.
-“Anne, are you or Mrs. Barry crazy?
+“Anne are you or Mrs. Barry crazy?
@@ -228,2 +228,2 @@ What on earth did you give her?”
-“I never thought raspberry cordial would set people drunk, Marilla,—not even if they drank three big tumblerfuls as Diana did.
-Oh, it sounds so—so—like Mrs. Thomas’ husband!
+“I never thought raspberry cordial would set people drunk, Marilla—not even if they drank three big tumblerfuls as Diana did.
+Oh, it sounds so—so—like Mrs. Thomas’s husband!
@@ -232,2 +232,2 @@ But I didn’t mean to set her drunk.”
-“Drunk fiddlesticks!” said Marilla, marching to the sitting-room pantry.
-There on the shelf was a bottle which she at once recognized as one containing some of her three year old homemade currant wine for which she was celebrated in Avonlea, although certain of the stricter sort, Mrs. Barry among them, disapproved strongly of it.
+“Drunk fiddlesticks!” said Marilla, marching to the sitting room pantry.
+There on the shelf was a bottle which she at once recognized as one containing some of her three-year-old homemade currant wine for which she was celebrated in Avonlea, although certain of the stricter sort, Mrs. Barry among them, disapproved strongly of it.
@@ -248 +248 @@ Mrs. Barry told Mrs. Lynde she was simply dead drunk.
-She just laughed silly like when her mother asked her what was the matter and went to sleep and slept for hours.
+She just laughed silly-like when her mother asked her what was the matter and went to sleep and slept for hours.
@@ -268 +268 @@ Oh, Marilla, I little dreamed of this when first we swore our vows of friendship
-Mrs. Barry will think better of it when she finds you’re not really to blame.
+Mrs. Barry will think better of it when she finds you’re not to blame.
@@ -272 +272 @@ You’d best go up this evening and tell her how it was.”
-“My courage fails me at the thought of facing Diana’s injured mother,” sighed Anne.
+“My courage fails me at the thought of facing Diana’s injured mother,”  sighed Anne.
@@ -281 +281 @@ It will be all right.”
-Marilla had changed her mind about its being all right by the time she got back from Orchard Slope.
+Marilla had changed her mind about it being all right by the time she got back from Orchard Slope.
@@ -287 +287 @@ Anne was watching for her coming and flew to the porch door to meet her.
-“Mrs. Barry, indeed!” snapped Marilla.
+“Mrs. Barry indeed!” snapped Marilla.
@@ -294,2 +294,2 @@ Marilla whisked into the kitchen, grievously disturbed, leaving a very much dist
-Presently Anne stepped out bare-headed into the chill autumn dusk; very determinedly and steadily she took her way down through the sere clover field over the log bridge and up through the spruce grove, lighted by a pale little moon hanging low over the western woods.
-Mrs. Barry, coming to the door in answer to a timid knock, found a white-lipped, eager-eyed suppliant on the doorstep.
+Presently Anne stepped out bareheaded into the chill autumn dusk; very determinedly and steadily she took her way down through the sere clover field over the log bridge and up through the spruce grove, lighted by a pale little moon hanging low over the western woods.
+Mrs. Barry, coming to the door in answer to a timid knock, found a white-lipped eager-eyed suppliant on the doorstep.
@@ -315 +315 @@ If you do you will cover my life with a dark cloud of woe.”
-This speech, which would have softened good Mrs. Lynde’s heart in a twinkling, had no effect on Mrs. Barry except to irritate her still more.
+This speech which would have softened good Mrs. Lynde’s heart in a twinkling, had no effect on Mrs. Barry except to irritate her still more.
@@ -322 +322 @@ You’d better go home and behave yourself.”
-Anne’s lip quivered.
+Anne’s lips quivered.
@@ -335 +335 @@ There is nothing more to do except to pray and I haven’t much hope that that
-“Anne, you shouldn’t say such things,” rebuked Marilla, striving to overcome that unholy tendency to laughter which she was dismayed to find growing upon her.
+“Anne, you shouldn’t say such things” rebuked Marilla, striving to overcome that unholy tendency to laughter which she was dismayed to find growing upon her.
diff --git a/chapters/17-XVII.-A-New-Interest-in-Life.utf8 b/chapters/17-XVII.-A-New-Interest-in-Life.utf8
index abfd9ff..43461da 100644
--- a/chapters/17-XVII.-A-New-Interest-in-Life.utf8
+++ b/chapters/17-XVII.-A-New-Interest-in-Life.utf8
@@ -29 +29 @@ Anne drew a long breath.
-“I thought you _liked_ me of course, but I never hoped you _loved_ me.
+“I thought you _liked_ me of course but I never hoped you _loved_ me.
@@ -45 +45 @@ Diana, wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet-black tresses in parting to treasure
-I’ve got my patchwork scissors in my apron pocket fortunately,” said Anne.
+I’ve got my patchwork scissors in my apron pocket fortunately,”  said Anne.
@@ -69 +69 @@ Perhaps when she sees me lying cold and dead before her Mrs. Barry may feel remo
-The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and her lips primmed up into a line of determination.
+The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and hip and her lips primmed up into a line of determination.
@@ -76 +76 @@ In school I can look at her and muse over days departed.”
-“If you’re going back to school I hope we’ll hear no more of breaking slates over people’s heads and such carryings-on.
+“If you’re going back to school I hope we’ll hear no more of breaking slates over people’s heads and such carryings on.
@@ -89,6 +89,4 @@ Anne was welcomed back to school with open arms.
-Her imagination had been sorely missed in games, her voice in the singing, and her dramatic ability in the perusal aloud of books at dinner hour.
-Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May Macpherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue—a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.
-Sophia Sloane offered to teach her a perfectly elegant new pattern of knit lace, _so_ nice for trimming aprons.
-Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate-water in and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper, scalloped on the edges, the following effusion:
-
-To Anne
+Her imagination had been sorely missed in games, her voice in the singing and her dramatic ability in the perusal aloud of books at dinner hour.
+Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue—a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.
+Sophia Sloane offered to teach her a perfectly elegant new pattern of knit lace, so nice for trimming aprons.
+Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion:
@@ -105 +103 @@ When Anne went to her seat after dinner hour—she had been told by Mr. Phillips
-Anne caught it up all ready to take a bite, when she remembered that the only place in Avonlea where strawberry apples grew was in the old Blythe orchard on the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters.
+Anne caught it up all ready to take a bite when she remembered that the only place in Avonlea where strawberry apples grew was in the old Blythe orchard on the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters.
@@ -108 +106 @@ The apple lay untouched on her desk until the next morning, when little Timothy
-Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favourable reception.
+Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favorable reception.
@@ -113 +111 @@ But as,
-The Cæsar’s pageant shorn of Brutus’ bust
+The Caesar’s pageant shorn of Brutus’ bust
@@ -116 +114 @@ Did but of Rome’s best son remind her more,
-so the marked absence of any tribute or recognition from Diana Barry, who was sitting with Gertie Pye, embittered Anne’s little triumph.
+so the marked absence of any tribute or recognition from Diana Barry who was sitting with Gertie Pye embittered Anne’s little triumph.
@@ -119 +117,3 @@ so the marked absence of any tribute or recognition from Diana Barry, who was si
-But the next morning a note, most fearfully and wonderfully twisted and folded, and a small parcel, were passed across to Anne.
+But the next morning a note most fearfully and wonderfully twisted and folded, and a small parcel were passed across to Anne.
+
+Dear Anne (ran the former)
@@ -121 +121 @@ But the next morning a note, most fearfully and wonderfully twisted and folded,
-“Dear Anne,” ran the former, “Mother says I’m not to play with you or talk to you even in school.
+Mother says I’m not to play with you or talk to you even in school.
@@ -128 +128 @@ When you look at it remember
-Your true friend,
+Your true friend
@@ -130 +130 @@ Your true friend,
-Diana Barry.”
+Diana Barry.
@@ -132 +132 @@ Diana Barry.”
-Anne read the note, kissed the bookmark, and despatched a prompt reply back to the other side of the school.
+Anne read the note, kissed the bookmark, and dispatched a prompt reply back to the other side of the school.
@@ -134 +134 @@ Anne read the note, kissed the bookmark, and despatched a prompt reply back to t
-“My own darling Diana:—
+My own darling Diana:—
@@ -137 +137 @@ Of course I am not cross at you because you have to obey your mother.
-Our spirits can comune.
+Our spirits can commune.
@@ -142 +142,2 @@ Please excuse mistakes because my spelling isn’t very good yet, although much
-Yours until death us do part,
+Yours until death us do part
+
@@ -144,2 +145,3 @@ Anne or Cordelia Shirley.
-P. S. I shall sleep with your letter under my pillow to-night.
-A. or C. S.”
+
+P. S. I shall sleep with your letter under my pillow tonight.
+A. _or_ C. S.
@@ -151 +153 @@ She flung herself into her studies heart and soul, determined not to be outdone
-The rivalry between them was soon apparent; it was entirely good-natured on Gilbert’s side; but it is much to be feared that the same thing cannot be said of Anne, who had certainly an unpraiseworthy tenacity for holding grudges.
+The rivalry between them was soon apparent; it was entirely good natured on Gilbert’s side; but it is much to be feared that the same thing cannot be said of Anne, who had certainly an unpraiseworthy tenacity for holding grudges.
@@ -153 +155 @@ She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves.
-She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in school work, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honours fluctuated between them.
+She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honors fluctuated between them.
@@ -155 +157 @@ Now Gilbert was head of the spelling class; now Anne, with a toss of her long re
-One morning Gilbert had all his sums done correctly and had his name written on the blackboard on the roll of honour; the next morning Anne, having wrestled wildly with decimals the entire evening before, would be first.
+One morning Gilbert had all his sums done correctly and had his name written on the blackboard on the roll of honor; the next morning Anne, having wrestled wildly with decimals the entire evening before, would be first.
@@ -157 +159 @@ One awful day they were ties and their names were written up together.
-It was almost as bad as a “take-notice” and Anne’s mortification was as evident as Gilbert’s satisfaction.
+It was almost as bad as a take-notice and Anne’s mortification was as evident as Gilbert’s satisfaction.
@@ -164,2 +166,2 @@ It would have been ever so much sweeter to her if he had felt the sting of his d
-Mr. Phillips might not be a very good teacher; but a pupil so inflexibly determined on learning as Anne was could hardly escape making progress under any kind of a teacher.
-By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”—by which Latin, geometry, French and algebra were meant.
+Mr. Phillips might not be a very good teacher; but a pupil so inflexibly determined on learning as Anne was could hardly escape making progress under any kind of teacher.
+By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”—by which Latin, geometry, French, and algebra were meant.
@@ -174 +176,2 @@ It is extremely mortifying, Marilla.
-Even Diana gets along better than I do.
+
+“Even Diana gets along better than I do.
diff --git a/chapters/18-XVIII.-Anne-to-the-Rescue.utf8 b/chapters/18-XVIII.-Anne-to-the-Rescue.utf8
index 4df473d..fbc2588 100644
--- a/chapters/18-XVIII.-Anne-to-the-Rescue.utf8
+++ b/chapters/18-XVIII.-Anne-to-the-Rescue.utf8
@@ -7,2 +7,2 @@ But it had.
-It was in January the Premier came, to address his loyal supporters and such of his non-supporters as chose to be present at the monster mass meeting held in Charlottetown.
-Most of the Avonlea people were on the Premier’s side of politics; hence, on the night of the meeting nearly all the men and a goodly proportion of the women had gone to town, thirty miles away.
+It was a January the Premier came, to address his loyal supporters and such of his nonsupporters as chose to be present at the monster mass meeting held in Charlottetown.
+Most of the Avonlea people were on Premier’s side of politics; hence on the night of the meeting nearly all the men and a goodly proportion of the women had gone to town thirty miles away.
@@ -15 +15 @@ Hence, while Marilla and Mrs. Rachel were enjoying themselves hugely at the mass
-A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the window-panes.
+A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the windowpanes.
@@ -34 +34 @@ Mr. Phillips told me last week in Blair’s store at Carmody that you was the sm
-There’s them as runs down Teddy Phillips and says he ain’t much of a teacher; but I guess he’s all right.”
+There’s them as runs down Teddy Phillips and says he ain’t much of a teacher, but I guess he’s all right.”
@@ -36 +36 @@ There’s them as runs down Teddy Phillips and says he ain’t much of a teacher
-Matthew would have thought any one who praised Anne was “all right.”
+Matthew would have thought anyone who praised Anne was “all right.”
@@ -39 +39 @@ Matthew would have thought any one who praised Anne was “all right.”
-“I learn the proposition off by heart, and then he draws it on the blackboard and puts different letters from what are in the book and I get all mixed up.
+“I learn the proposition off by heart and then he draws it on the blackboard and puts different letters from what are in the book and I get all mixed up.
@@ -44 +44 @@ I wonder how Marilla and Mrs. Lynde are enjoying themselves.
-Mrs. Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa, and that it’s an awful warning to the electors.
+Mrs. Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it’s an awful warning to the electors.
@@ -52,2 +52,2 @@ To vote Conservative was part of Matthew’s religion.
-“I’m glad, because Gil— because some of the boys in school are Grits.
-I guess Mr. Phillips is a Grit too, because Prissy Andrews’ father is one, and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics.
+“I’m glad because Gil—because some of the boys in school are Grits.
+I guess Mr. Phillips is a Grit too because Prissy Andrews’s father is one, and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics.
@@ -69 +69 @@ Mr. Phillips goes up to see Prissy Andrews nearly every evening.
-He says it is to help her with her lessons, but Miranda Sloane is studying for Queen’s, too, and I should think she needed help a lot more than Prissy because she’s ever so much stupider, but he never goes to help her in the evenings at all.
+He says it is to help her with her lessons but Miranda Sloane is studying for Queen’s too, and I should think she needed help a lot more than Prissy because she’s ever so much stupider, but he never goes to help her in the evenings at all.
@@ -80 +80 @@ I love a book that makes me cry.
-But I think I’ll carry that book into the sitting-room and lock it in the jam closet and give you the key.
+But I think I’ll carry that book into the sitting room and lock it in the jam closet and give you the key.
@@ -88 +88 @@ Wouldn’t you like some russets?”
-Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white-faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head.
+Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head.
@@ -95 +95,2 @@ Anne promptly let go of her candle and plate in her surprise, and plate, candle,
-“Minnie May is awful sick—she’s got croup, Young Mary Joe says—and father and mother are away to town and there’s nobody to go for the doctor.
+“Minnie May is awful sick—she’s got croup.
+Young Mary Joe says—and Father and Mother are away to town and there’s nobody to go for the doctor.
@@ -100 +101 @@ Matthew, without a word, reached out for cap and coat, slipped past Diana and aw
-“He’s gone to harness the sorrel mare to go to Carmody for the doctor,” said Anne, who was hurrying on hood and jacket.
+“He’s gone to harness the sorrel mare to go to Carmody for the doctor,”  said Anne, who was hurrying on hood and jacket.
@@ -105 +106,2 @@ Matthew and I are such kindred spirits I can read his thoughts without words at
-“I know that Doctor Blair went to town and I guess Doctor Spencer would go too, Young Mary Joe never saw anybody with croup and Mrs. Lynde is away.
+“I know that Dr. Blair went to town and I guess Dr. Spencer would go too.
+Young Mary Joe never saw anybody with croup and Mrs. Lynde is away.
@@ -116 +118 @@ Come on now.”
-The two little girls hastened out hand in hand and hurried through Lovers’ Lane and across the crusted field beyond, for the snow was too deep to go by the shorter wood way.
+The two little girls hastened out hand in hand and hurried through Lover’s Lane and across the crusted field beyond, for the snow was too deep to go by the shorter wood way.
@@ -123,2 +125,2 @@ Minnie May, aged three, was really very sick.
-She lay on the kitchen sofa, feverish and restless, while her hoarse breathing could be heard all over the house.
-Young Mary Joe, a buxom, broad-faced French girl from the Creek, whom Mrs. Barry had engaged to stay with the children during her absence, was helpless and bewildered, quite incapable of thinking what to do, or doing it if she thought of it.
+She lay on the kitchen sofa feverish and restless, while her hoarse breathing could be heard all over the house.
+Young Mary Joe, a buxom, broad-faced French girl from the creek, whom Mrs. Barry had engaged to stay with the children during her absence, was helpless and bewildered, quite incapable of thinking what to do, or doing it if she thought of it.
@@ -132,2 +134,2 @@ There, I’ve filled it up, and, Mary Joe, you may put some wood in the stove.
-I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but it seems to me you might have thought of this before if you’d any imagination.
-Now, I’ll undress Minnie May and put her to bed, and you try to find some soft flannel cloths, Diana.
+I don’t want to hurt your feelings but it seems to me you might have thought of this before if you’d any imagination.
+Now, I’ll undress Minnie May and put her to bed and you try to find some soft flannel cloths, Diana.
@@ -136,2 +138,2 @@ I’m going to give her a dose of ipecac first of all.”
-Minnie May did not take kindly to the ipecac, but Anne had not brought up three pairs of twins for nothing.
-Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept on a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.
+Minnie May did not take kindly to the ipecac but Anne had not brought up three pairs of twins for nothing.
+Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.
@@ -139 +141 @@ Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious ni
-It was three o’clock when Matthew came with the doctor, for he had been obliged to go all the way to Spencervale for one.
+It was three o’clock when Matthew came with a doctor, for he had been obliged to go all the way to Spencervale for one.
@@ -146 +148 @@ I actually thought she was going to choke to death.
-I gave her every drop of ipecac in that bottle, and when the last dose went down I said to myself—not to Diana or Young Mary Joe, because I didn’t want to worry them any more than they were worried, but I had to say it to myself just to relieve my feelings—‘This is the last lingering hope and I fear ’tis a vain one.’
+I gave her every drop of ipecac in that bottle and when the last dose went down I said to myself—not to Diana or Young Mary Joe, because I didn’t want to worry them any more than they were worried, but I had to say it to myself just to relieve my feelings—‘This is the last lingering hope and I fear, tis a vain one.’
@@ -155,2 +157,2 @@ Later on, however, he expressed them to Mr. and Mrs. Barry.
-“That little red-headed girl they have over at Cuthbert’s is as smart as they make ’em.
-I tell you she saved that baby’s life, for it would have been too late by the time I got here.
+“That little redheaded girl they have over at Cuthbert’s is as smart as they make ‘em.
+I tell you she saved that baby’s life, for it would have been too late by the time I got there.
@@ -158 +160 @@ She seems to have a skill and presence of mind perfectly wonderful in a child of
-I never saw anything like the eyes of her when she was explaining the case out to me.”
+I never saw anything like the eyes of her when she was explaining the case to me.”
@@ -160 +162 @@ I never saw anything like the eyes of her when she was explaining the case out t
-Anne had gone home in the wonderful, white-frosted winter morning, heavy-eyed from loss of sleep, but still talking unweariedly to Matthew as they crossed the long white field and walked under the glittering fairy arch of the Lovers’ Lane maples.
+Anne had gone home in the wonderful, white-frosted winter morning, heavy eyed from loss of sleep, but still talking unweariedly to Matthew as they crossed the long white field and walked under the glittering fairy arch of the Lover’s Lane maples.
@@ -172 +174 @@ I just know I couldn’t keep my eyes open and I’d be so stupid.
-But I hate to stay home for Gil— some of the others will get head of the class, and it’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?”
+But I hate to stay home, for Gil—some of the others will get head of the class, and it’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?”
@@ -181 +183 @@ Anne accordingly went to bed and slept so long and soundly that it was well on i
-“What did he look like, Marilla?”
+“What did he look like Marilla?”
@@ -188 +190 @@ Rachel Lynde, of course, being a Liberal, had no use for him.
-Your dinner is in the oven, Anne; and you can get yourself some blue plum preserve out of the pantry.
+Your dinner is in the oven, Anne, and you can get yourself some blue plum preserve out of the pantry.
@@ -196 +198 @@ I can tell by the look of you that you’re just full up with speeches, but they
-Marilla had something to tell Anne, but she did not tell it just then, for she knew if she did Anne’s consequent excitement would lift her clear out of the region of such material matters as appetite or dinner.
+Marilla had something to tell Anne, but she did not tell it just then for she knew if she did Anne’s consequent excitement would lift her clear out of the region of such material matters as appetite or dinner.
@@ -203,2 +205,2 @@ She says she knows now you didn’t mean to set Diana drunk, and she hopes you
-You’re to go over this evening if you like, for Diana can’t stir outside the door on account of a bad cold she caught last night.
-Now, Anne Shirley, for pity’s sake don’t fly clean up into the air.”
+You’re to go over this evening if you like for Diana can’t stir outside the door on account of a bad cold she caught last night.
+Now, Anne Shirley, for pity’s sake don’t fly up into the air.”
@@ -209 +211 @@ The warning seemed not unnecessary, so uplifted and aerial was Anne’s expressi
-I’ll wash them when I come back, but I cannot tie myself down to anything so unromantic as dish-washing at this thrilling moment.”
+I’ll wash them when I come back, but I cannot tie myself down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing at this thrilling moment.”
@@ -221 +223 @@ Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening
-The tinkles of sleigh-bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne’s heart and on her lips.
+The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne’s heart and on her lips.
@@ -229,2 +231,3 @@ I assure you once for all that I did not mean to intoxicate Diana and henceforth
-That was a pretty dignified way of speaking, wasn’t it, Marilla?
-I felt that I was heaping coals of fire on Mrs. Barry’s head.
+That was a pretty dignified way of speaking wasn’t it, Marilla?”
+
+“I felt that I was heaping coals of fire on Mrs. Barry’s head.
@@ -233,2 +236,2 @@ Diana showed me a new fancy crochet stitch her aunt over at Carmody taught her.
-Not a soul in Avonlea knows it but us, and we pledged a solemn vow never to reveal it to any one else.
-Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry:
+Not a soul in Avonlea knows it but us, and we pledged a solemn vow never to reveal it to anyone else.
+Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry:”
@@ -239 +242 @@ Nothing but death can part us two.
-And that is true, Marilla.
+“And that is true, Marilla.
@@ -245,2 +248,2 @@ Nobody ever used their very best china on my account before.
-And we had fruit-cake and pound-cake and doughnuts and two kinds of preserves, Marilla.
-And Mrs. Barry asked me if I took tea and said, ‘Pa, why don’t you pass the biscuits to Anne?’
+And we had fruit cake and pound cake and doughnuts and two kinds of preserves, Marilla.
+And Mrs. Barry asked me if I took tea and said ‘Pa, why don’t you pass the biscuits to Anne?’
@@ -249 +252 @@ It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you wer
-“I don’t know about that,” said Marilla with a brief sigh.
+“I don’t know about that,” said Marilla, with a brief sigh.
@@ -251 +254 @@ It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you wer
-“Well, anyway, when I am grown up,” said Anne decidedly, “I’m always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I’ll never laugh when they use big words.
+“Well, anyway, when I am grown up,” said Anne decidedly, “I’m always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I’ll never laugh when they use big words.
@@ -257,2 +260,2 @@ But the making of it was splendid fun.
-Then when I came home Mrs. Barry asked me to come over as often as I could and Diana stood at the window and threw kisses to me all the way down to Lovers’ Lane.
-I assure you, Marilla, that I feel like praying to-night and I’m going to think out a special brand-new prayer in honour of the occasion.”
\ No newline at end of file
+Then when I came home Mrs. Barry asked me to come over as often as I could and Diana stood at the window and threw kisses to me all the way down to Lover’s Lane.
+I assure you, Marilla, that I feel like praying tonight and I’m going to think out a special brand-new prayer in honor of the occasion.”
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chapters/19-XIX.-A-Concert,-a-Catastrophe,-and-a-Confession.utf8 b/chapters/19-XIX.-A-Concert,-a-Catastrophe,-and-a-Confession.utf8
index 27e70da..311b2cd 100644
--- a/chapters/19-XIX.-A-Concert,-a-Catastrophe,-and-a-Confession.utf8
+++ b/chapters/19-XIX.-A-Concert,-a-Catastrophe,-and-a-Confession.utf8
@@ -1 +1 @@
-A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
+A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession
@@ -3 +3,2 @@ A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
-“Marilla, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?” asked Anne, running breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening.
+“Marilla, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?”
+asked Anne, running breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening.
@@ -14 +15 @@ So I don’t think you’re very badly off to see her again.”
-“Because she just signalled to me from her window.
+“Because she just signaled to me from her window.
@@ -16 +17 @@ We have arranged a way to signal with our candles and cardboard.
-We set the candle on the window-sill and make flashes by passing the cardboard back and forth.
+We set the candle on the window sill and make flashes by passing the cardboard back and forth.
@@ -21 +22 @@ It was my idea, Marilla.”
-“And the next thing you’ll be setting fire to the curtains with your signalling nonsense.”
+“And the next thing you’ll be setting fire to the curtains with your signaling nonsense.”
@@ -28 +29 @@ Five mean, ‘Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important
-Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I’m really suffering to know what it is.”
+Diana has just signaled five flashes, and I’m really suffering to know what it is.”
@@ -37 +38 @@ But at least she had made good use of them.
-You know to-morrow is Diana’s birthday.
+You know tomorrow is Diana’s birthday.
@@ -39 +40 @@ Well, her mother told her she could ask me to go home with her from school and s
-And her cousins are coming over from Newbridge in a big pung sleigh to go to the Debating Club concert at the hall to-morrow night.
+And her cousins are coming over from Newbridge in a big pung sleigh to go to the Debating Club concert at the hall tomorrow night.
@@ -45 +46 @@ Oh, I feel so excited.”
-You’re better at home in your own bed, and as for that Club concert, it’s all nonsense, and little girls should not be allowed to go out to such places at all.”
+You’re better at home in your own bed, and as for that club concert, it’s all nonsense, and little girls should not be allowed to go out to such places at all.”
@@ -57 +58 @@ It isn’t as if birthdays were common things, Marilla.
-Prissy Andrews is going to recite ‘Curfew Must Not Ring To-night.’
+Prissy Andrews is going to recite ‘Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight.’
@@ -70 +71 @@ It’s past eight.”
-Think of the honour of your little Anne being put in the spare-room bed.”
+Think of the honor of your little Anne being put in the spare-room bed.”
@@ -72 +73 @@ Think of the honour of your little Anne being put in the spare-room bed.”
-“It’s an honour you’ll have to get along without.
+“It’s an honor you’ll have to get along without.
@@ -75 +76 @@ Go to bed, Anne, and don’t let me hear another word out of you.”
-When Anne, with tears rolling over her cheeks, had gone sorrowfully up-stairs, Matthew, who had been apparently sound asleep on the lounge during the whole dialogue, opened his eyes and said decidedly:
+When Anne, with tears rolling over her cheeks, had gone sorrowfully upstairs, Matthew, who had been apparently sound asleep on the lounge during the whole dialogue, opened his eyes and said decidedly:
@@ -90 +91 @@ And my opinion is that you ought to let Anne go.”
-“You’d think I ought to let Anne go to the moon if she took the notion, I’ve no doubt,” was Marilla’s amiable rejoinder.
+“You’d think I ought to let Anne go to the moon if she took the notion, I’ve no doubt” was Marilla’s amiable rejoinder.
@@ -107 +108 @@ Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly:
-“Very well, she can go, since nothing else’ll please you.”
+“Very well, she can go, since nothing else ‘ll please you.”
@@ -109 +110 @@ Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly:
-Anne flew out of the pantry, dripping dish-cloth in hand.
+Anne flew out of the pantry, dripping dishcloth in hand.
@@ -135 +136 @@ The Avonlea Debating Club, which met fortnightly all winter, had had several sma
-The Avonlea young people had been practising for weeks, and all the scholars were especially interested in it by reason of older brothers and sisters who were going to take part.
+The Avonlea young people had been practicing for weeks, and all the scholars were especially interested in it by reason of older brothers and sisters who were going to take part.
@@ -140 +141 @@ For Anne the real excitement began with the dismissal of school and increased th
-They had a “perfectly elegant tea;” and then came the delicious occupation of dressing in Diana’s little room up-stairs.
+They had a “perfectly elegant tea;” and then came the delicious occupation of dressing in Diana’s little room upstairs.
@@ -144 +145 @@ At last they were ready, cheeks scarlet and eyes glowing with excitement.
-True, Anne could not help a little pang when she contrasted her plain black tam and shapeless, tight-sleeved, home-made gray cloth coat with Diana’s jaunty fur cap and smart little jacket.
+True, Anne could not help a little pang when she contrasted her plain black tam and shapeless, tight-sleeved, homemade gray-cloth coat with Diana’s jaunty fur cap and smart little jacket.
@@ -148,3 +149,3 @@ Then Diana’s cousins, the Murrays from Newbridge, came; they all crowded into
-Anne revelled in the drive to the hall, slipping along over the satin-smooth roads with the snow crisping under the runners.
-There was a magnificent sunset, and the snowy hills and deep blue water of the St. Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendour like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
-Tinkles of sleigh-bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter.
+Anne reveled in the drive to the hall, slipping along over the satin-smooth roads with the snow crisping under the runners.
+There was a magnificent sunset, and the snowy hills and deep-blue water of the St. Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendor like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
+Tinkles of sleigh bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter.
@@ -157 +158 @@ I feel so different that it seems to me it must show in my looks.”
-“You’ve got the loveliest colour.”
+“You’ve got the loveliest color.”
@@ -159,2 +160,2 @@ I feel so different that it seems to me it must show in my looks.”
-The programme that night was a series of “thrills” for at least one listener in the audience, and, as Anne assured Diana, every succeeding thrill was thrillier than the last.
-When Prissy Andrews, attired in a new pink silk waist with a string of pearls about her smooth white throat and real carnations in her hair—rumour whispered that the master had sent all the way to town for them for her—“climbed the slimy ladder, dark without one ray of light,” Anne shivered in luxurious sympathy; when the choir sang “Far Above the Gentle Daisies” Anne gazed at the ceiling as if it were frescoed with angels; when Sam Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate “How Sockery Set a Hen” Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea; and when Mr. Phillips gave Mark Antony’s oration over the dead body of Cæsar in the most heart-stirring tones—looking at Prissy Andrews at the end of every sentence—Anne felt that she could rise and mutiny on the spot if but one Roman citizen led the way.
+The program that night was a series of “thrills” for at least one listener in the audience, and, as Anne assured Diana, every succeeding thrill was thrillier than the last.
+When Prissy Andrews, attired in a new pink-silk waist with a string of pearls about her smooth white throat and real carnations in her hair—rumor whispered that the master had sent all the way to town for them for her—“climbed the slimy ladder, dark without one ray of light,” Anne shivered in luxurious sympathy; when the choir sang “Far Above the Gentle Daisies” Anne gazed at the ceiling as if it were frescoed with angels; when Sam Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate “How Sockery Set a Hen” Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea; and when Mr. Phillips gave Mark Antony’s oration over the dead body of Caesar in the most heart-stirring tones—looking at Prissy Andrews at the end of every sentence—Anne felt that she could rise and mutiny on the spot if but one Roman citizen led the way.
@@ -162 +163 @@ When Prissy Andrews, attired in a new pink silk waist with a string of pearls ab
-Only one number on the programme failed to interest her.
+Only one number on the program failed to interest her.
@@ -167 +168 @@ Everybody seemed asleep and the house was dark and silent.
-Anne and Diana tiptoed into the parlour, a long narrow room out of which the spare room opened.
+Anne and Diana tiptoed into the parlor, a long narrow room out of which the spare room opened.
@@ -177 +178 @@ Do you suppose we will ever be asked to do it, Diana?”
-“Yes, of course, some day.
+“Yes, of course, someday.
@@ -183 +184 @@ When he came to the line,
-There’s another, _not_ a sister,
+_There’s Another_, not _a sister_,
@@ -198 +199 @@ Anne and Diana were never able to tell just how they got off that bed and out of
-They only knew that after one frantic rush they found themselves tiptoeing shiveringly up-stairs.
+They only knew that after one frantic rush they found themselves tiptoeing shiveringly upstairs.
@@ -219 +220 @@ Mrs. Barry smiled kindly at the two little girls.
-I tried to stay awake until you came home, for I wanted to tell you Aunt Josephine had come and that you would have to go up-stairs after all, but I was so tired I fell asleep.
+I tried to stay awake until you came home, for I wanted to tell you Aunt Josephine had come and that you would have to go upstairs after all, but I was so tired I fell asleep.
@@ -235 +236 @@ I suggested racing to see who would get into bed first.”
-“I knew it!” said Mrs. Lynde with the exultation of a correct guesser.
+“I knew it!” said Mrs. Lynde, with the exultation of a correct guesser.
@@ -238,2 +239,2 @@ Well, it’s made a nice lot of trouble, that’s what.
-Old Miss Barry came out to stay for a month, but she declares she won’t stay another day and is going right back to town to-morrow, Sunday and all as it is.
-She’d have gone to-day if they could have taken her.
+Old Miss Barry came out to stay for a month, but she declares she won’t stay another day and is going right back to town tomorrow, Sunday and all as it is.
+She’d have gone today if they could have taken her.
@@ -247 +248 @@ Of course, Mrs. Barry didn’t say just that to me, but I’m a pretty good judg
-“I’m always getting into scrapes myself and getting my best friends—people I’d shed my heart’s blood for—into them, too.
+“I’m always getting into scrapes myself and getting my best friends—people I’d shed my heart’s blood for—into them too.
@@ -276 +277 @@ She says she won’t stay and I’m sure I don’t care.
-But father and mother do.”
+But Father and Mother do.”
@@ -293 +294 @@ It was my fault and I’ve got to confess.
-I’ve had practice in confessing fortunately.”
+I’ve had practice in confessing, fortunately.”
@@ -303 +304 @@ A sharp “Come in” followed.
-Miss Josephine Barry, thin, prim and rigid, was knitting fiercely by the fire, her wrath quite unappeased and her eyes snapping through her gold-rimmed glasses.
+Miss Josephine Barry, thin, prim, and rigid, was knitting fiercely by the fire, her wrath quite unappeased and her eyes snapping through her gold-rimmed glasses.
@@ -306 +307 @@ She wheeled around in her chair, expecting to see Diana, and beheld a white-face
-“Who are you?” demanded Miss Josephine Barry without ceremony.
+“Who are you?” demanded Miss Josephine Barry, without ceremony.
@@ -315 +316 @@ Diana would never have thought of such a thing, I am sure.
-Diana is a very lady-like girl, Miss Barry.
+Diana is a very ladylike girl, Miss Barry.
@@ -320 +321 @@ I rather think Diana did her share of the jumping at least.
-Such carryings-on in a respectable house!”
+Such carryings on in a respectable house!”
@@ -326 +327 @@ Diana’s heart is set on her music lessons, Miss Barry, and I know too well wha
-If you must be cross with any one, be cross with me.
+If you must be cross with anyone, be cross with me.
@@ -345 +346 @@ I suppose you are used to sleeping in spare rooms.
-But just imagine what you would feel like if you were a little orphan girl who had never had such an honour.”
+But just imagine what you would feel like if you were a little orphan girl who had never had such an honor.”
@@ -374 +375 @@ Miss Barry stayed her month out and over.
-She was a more agreeable guest than usual, for Anne kept her in good humour.
+She was a more agreeable guest than usual, for Anne kept her in good humor.
@@ -383 +384 @@ When Miss Barry went away she said:
-You don’t find it right out at first, as in Matthew’s case, but after awhile you come to see it.
+You don’t find it right out at first, as in Matthew’s case, but after a while you come to see it.
diff --git a/chapters/20-XX.-A-Good-Imagination-Gone-Wrong.utf8 b/chapters/20-XX.-A-Good-Imagination-Gone-Wrong.utf8
index 8dac857..68cb47a 100644
--- a/chapters/20-XX.-A-Good-Imagination-Gone-Wrong.utf8
+++ b/chapters/20-XX.-A-Good-Imagination-Gone-Wrong.utf8
@@ -3,2 +3,2 @@ A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
-Spring had come once more to Green Gables—the beautiful, capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.
-The maples in Lovers’ Lane were red-budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad’s Bubble.
+Spring had come once more to Green Gables—the beautiful capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.
+The maples in Lover’s Lane were red budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad’s Bubble.
@@ -15 +15 @@ I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer and this is
-But we had a splendid time to-day, Marilla.
+But we had a splendid time today, Marilla.
@@ -20 +20 @@ It is very _fashionable_ to dare.
-Mr. Phillips gave all the Mayflowers he found to Prissy Andrews and I heard him say ‘sweets to the sweet.’
+Mr. Phillips gave all the Mayflowers he found to Prissy Andrews and I heard him to say ‘sweets to the sweet.’
@@ -33 +33 @@ After the Mayflowers came the violets, and Violet Vale was empurpled with them.
-Anne walked through it on her way to school with reverent steps and worshipping eyes, as if she trod on holy ground.
+Anne walked through it on her way to school with reverent steps and worshiping eyes, as if she trod on holy ground.
@@ -41 +41 @@ If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then i
-One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savour of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.
+One June evening, when the orchards were pink blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.
@@ -48 +48 @@ It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to
-It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although immaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.
+It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.
@@ -73 +73 @@ It’s the most ravishing spot, Marilla.
-There are two maple-trees on it and the brook flows right around it.
+There are two maple trees on it and the brook flows right around it.
@@ -76,2 +76,2 @@ Both Diana and I are very loyal.
-But I’m very sorry about that pie and the handkerchiefs.
-I wanted to be extra good to-day because it’s an anniversary.
+But I’m sorry about that pie and the handkerchiefs.
+I wanted to be extra good today because it’s an anniversary.
@@ -84 +84 @@ I shall never forget it.
-It was the turning-point in my life.
+It was the turning point in my life.
@@ -104 +104 @@ I want that pattern to cut out your new apron this evening.
-Go at once and be smart, too.”
+Go at once and be smart too.”
@@ -141 +141 @@ I’d be sure that white things would reach out from behind the trees and grab m
-“Did ever any one hear the like!” ejaculated Marilla, who had listened in dumb amazement.
+“Did ever anyone hear the like!” ejaculated Marilla, who had listened in dumb amazement.
@@ -157 +157 @@ She’s a very religious woman.
-And Mrs. Thomas’ father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with its head cut off hanging by a strip of skin.
+And Mrs. Thomas’s father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with its head cut off hanging by a strip of skin.
@@ -170 +170 @@ But Marilla was inexorable.
-She marched the shrinking ghostseer down to the spring and ordered her to proceed straightway over the bridge and into the dusky retreats of wailing ladies and headless spectres beyond.
+She marched the shrinking ghost-seer down to the spring and ordered her to proceed straightaway over the bridge and into the dusky retreats of wailing ladies and headless specters beyond.
@@ -183 +183 @@ Anne never forgot that walk.
-Bitterly did she resent the license she had given to her imagination.
+Bitterly did she repent the license she had given to her imagination.
@@ -196 +196 @@ When she finally stumbled over the log bridge she drew one long shivering breath
-“Oh, Mar—Marilla,” chattered Anne, “I’ll b-b-be cont-t-tented with c-c-commonplace places after this.”
\ No newline at end of file
+“Oh, Mar—Marilla,” chattered Anne, “I’ll b-b-be contt-tented with c-c-commonplace places after this.”
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chapters/21-XXI.-A-New-Departure-in-Flavourings.utf8 b/chapters/21-XXI.-A-New-Departure-in-Flavourings.utf8
index 3f83298..6dc0d41 100644
--- a/chapters/21-XXI.-A-New-Departure-in-Flavourings.utf8
+++ b/chapters/21-XXI.-A-New-Departure-in-Flavourings.utf8
@@ -1 +1 @@
-A New Departure in Flavourings
+A New Departure in Flavorings
@@ -3,2 +3,2 @@ A New Departure in Flavourings
-“Dear me, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as Mrs. 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.
-“Wasn’t it fortunate, Marilla, that I took an extra handkerchief to school to-day?
+Dear me, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as Mrs. 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.
+“Wasn’t it fortunate, Marilla, that I took an extra handkerchief to school today?
@@ -9 +9 @@ I had a presentiment that it would be needed.”
-“I don’t think I was crying because I was really so very fond of him,” reflected Anne.
+“I don’t think I was crying because I was really so very fond of him,”  reflected Anne.
@@ -15 +15 @@ I tried to hold out, Marilla.
-I tried to remember the time 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.
+I tried to remember the time 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.
@@ -24 +24 @@ I can tell you I wished I’d been a model pupil like Minnie Andrews.
-_She_ hadn’t anything on her conscience.
+She hadn’t anything on her conscience.
@@ -28 +28 @@ I do feel dreadfully sad, Marilla.
-But one can’t feel quite in the depths of despair with two months vacation before them, can they, Marilla?
+But one can’t feel quite in the depths of despair with two months’ vacation before them, can they, Marilla?
@@ -39 +39 @@ They are going to board with Mrs. Lynde until the manse is ready.”
-If Marilla, in going down to Mrs. Lynde’s that evening, was actuated by any motive save her avowed one of returning the quilting-frames she had borrowed the preceding winter, it was an amiable weakness shared by most of the Avonlea people.
+If Marilla, in going down to Mrs. Lynde’s that evening, was actuated by any motive save her avowed one of returning the quilting frames she had borrowed the preceding winter, it was an amiable weakness shared by most of the Avonlea people.
@@ -44 +44 @@ Old Mr. Bentley, the minister whom Anne had found lacking in imagination, had be
-He was a widower when he came, and a widower he remained, despite the fact that gossip regularly married him to this, that or the other one, every year of his sojourn.
+He was a widower when he came, and a widower he remained, despite the fact that gossip regularly married him to this, that, or the other one, every year of his sojourn.
@@ -49 +49 @@ These stood or fell by the judgment of the fathers and mothers in Israel; but a
-“I don’t think Mr. Smith would have done, Matthew,” was Anne’s final summing up.
+“I don’t think Mr. Smith would have done, Matthew” was Anne’s final summing up.
@@ -55 +55 @@ I thought Mr. Marshall was decidedly attractive; but Mrs. Lynde says he isn’t
-Mrs. Lynde is a very far-seeing woman, isn’t she, Matthew?
+Mrs. Lynde is a very farseeing woman, isn’t she, Matthew?
@@ -62 +62 @@ Mrs. Lynde says that sound doctrine in the man and good housekeeping in the woma
-The new minister and his wife were a young, pleasant-faced couple, still in their honeymoon, and full of all good and beautiful enthusiasms for their chosen life-work.
+The new minister and his wife were a young, pleasant-faced couple, still on their honeymoon, and full of all good and beautiful enthusiasms for their chosen lifework.
@@ -65 +65 @@ Old and young liked the frank, cheerful young man with his high ideals, and the
-With Mrs. Allan Anne fell promptly and whole-heartedly in love.
+With Mrs. Allan Anne fell promptly and wholeheartedly in love.
@@ -71 +71 @@ She said right away she didn’t think it was fair for the teacher to ask all th
-She said we could ask her any question we liked, and I asked ever so many.
+She said we could ask her any question we liked and I asked ever so many.
@@ -74 +74 @@ I’m good at asking questions, Marilla.”
-“I believe you,” was Marilla’s emphatic comment.
+“I believe you” was Marilla’s emphatic comment.
@@ -96 +96 @@ But I can just feel she’s glad she’s a Christian and that she’d be one eve
-“I suppose we must have Mr. and Mrs. Allan up to tea some day soon,” said Marilla reflectively.
+“I suppose we must have Mr. and Mrs. Allan up to tea someday soon,” said Marilla reflectively.
@@ -114 +114 @@ She talked it all over with Diana Tuesday night in the twilight, as they sat on
-“Everything is ready, Diana, except my cake which I’m to make in the morning, and the baking-powder biscuits which Marilla will make just before tea-time.
+“Everything is ready, Diana, except my cake which I’m to make in the morning, and the baking-powder biscuits which Marilla will make just before teatime.
@@ -121,2 +121,2 @@ We’re going to have jellied chicken and cold tongue.
-We’re to have two kinds of jelly, red and yellow, and whipped cream and lemon pie, and cherry pie, and three kinds of cookies, and fruit-cake, and Marilla’s famous yellow plum preserves that she keeps especially for ministers, and pound cake and layer cake, and biscuits as aforesaid; and new bread and old both, in case the minister is dyspeptic and can’t eat new.
-Mrs. Lynde says ministers mostly are dyspeptic, but I don’t think Mr. Allan has been a minister long enough for it to have had a bad effect on him.
+We’re to have two kinds of jelly, red and yellow, and whipped cream and lemon pie, and cherry pie, and three kinds of cookies, and fruit cake, and Marilla’s famous yellow plum preserves that she keeps especially for ministers, and pound cake and layer cake, and biscuits as aforesaid; and new bread and old both, in case the minister is dyspeptic and can’t eat new.
+Mrs. Lynde says ministers are dyspeptic, but I don’t think Mr. Allan has been a minister long enough for it to have had a bad effect on him.
@@ -140 +140 @@ As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imaginatio
-“Every night, before I go to bed, I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here, combing her locks with the spring for a mirror.
+“Every night before I go to bed, I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here, combing her locks with the spring for a mirror.
@@ -152 +152 @@ But do you think it will rise?
-Just suppose perhaps the baking-powder isn’t good?
+Just suppose perhaps the baking powder isn’t good?
@@ -154 +154 @@ I used it out of the new can.
-And Mrs. Lynde says you can never be sure of getting good baking-powder nowadays when everything is so adulterated.
+And Mrs. Lynde says you can never be sure of getting good baking powder nowadays when everything is so adulterated.
@@ -158 +158 @@ Marilla, what if that cake doesn’t rise?”
-“We’ll have plenty without it,” was Marilla’s unimpassioned way of looking at the subject.
+“We’ll have plenty without it” was Marilla’s unimpassioned way of looking at the subject.
@@ -163,2 +163,2 @@ Anne, flushed with delight, clapped it together with layers of ruby jelly and, i
-“You’ll be using the best tea-set, of course, Marilla,” she said.
-“Can I fix up the table with ferns and wild roses?”
+“You’ll be using the best tea set, of course, Marilla,” she said.
+“Can I fix the table with ferns and wild roses?”
@@ -176 +176 @@ Anne laid herself out to decorate in a manner and after a fashion that should le
-Having abundance of roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own, she made that tea-table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it they exclaimed in chorus over its loveliness.
+Having abundance of roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own, she made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it they exclaimed in chorus over it loveliness.
@@ -203 +203 @@ It’s simply horrible.
-Mrs. Allan, don’t try to eat it.
+Mr. Allan, don’t try to eat it.
@@ -205 +205 @@ Anne, taste it yourself.
-What flavouring did you use?”
+What flavoring did you use?”
@@ -209 +209 @@ What flavouring did you use?”
-Oh, Marilla, it must have been the baking-powder.
+Oh, Marilla, it must have been the baking powder.
@@ -212 +212 @@ I had my suspicions of that bak—”
-“Baking-powder fiddlesticks!
+“Baking powder fiddlesticks!
@@ -215 +215 @@ Go and bring me the bottle of vanilla you used.”
-Anne fled to the pantry and returned with a small bottle partially filled with a brown liquid and labelled yellowly, “Best Vanilla.”
+Anne fled to the pantry and returned with a small bottle partially filled with a brown liquid and labeled yellowly, “Best Vanilla.”
@@ -219 +219 @@ Marilla took it, uncorked it, smelled it.
-“Mercy on us, Anne, you’ve flavoured that cake with _anodyne liniment_.
+“Mercy on us, Anne, you’ve flavored that cake with _Anodyne Liniment_.
@@ -229 +229 @@ Presently a light step sounded on the stairs and somebody entered the room.
-“Oh, Marilla,” sobbed Anne without looking up, “I’m disgraced for ever.
+“Oh, Marilla,” sobbed Anne, without looking up, “I’m disgraced forever.
@@ -233,2 +233,2 @@ Diana will ask me how my cake turned out and I shall have to tell her the truth.
-I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavoured a cake with anodyne liniment.
-Gil— the boys in school will never get over laughing at it.
+I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment.
+Gil—the boys in school will never get over laughing at it.
@@ -261 +261 @@ Nothing more was said about the liniment cake, and when the guests went away Ann
-Nevertheless she sighed deeply.
+Nevertheless, she sighed deeply.
@@ -263 +263 @@ Nevertheless she sighed deeply.
-“Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that to-morrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
+“Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
@@ -275 +275 @@ I never make the same mistake twice.”
-There _must_ be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them.
+There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them.
@@ -279 +279 @@ That’s a very comforting thought.”
-“It isn’t fit for any human to eat, not even Jerry Buote.”
\ No newline at end of file
+“It isn’t fit for any human to eat, not even Jerry Boute.”
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chapters/22-XXII.-Anne-Is-Invited-Out-to-Tea.utf8 b/chapters/22-XXII.-Anne-Is-Invited-Out-to-Tea.utf8
index 13caa6b..cdb1acf 100644
--- a/chapters/22-XXII.-Anne-Is-Invited-Out-to-Tea.utf8
+++ b/chapters/22-XXII.-Anne-Is-Invited-Out-to-Tea.utf8
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Anne Is Invited Out to Tea
+Anne is Invited Out to Tea
@@ -3 +3,3 @@ Anne Is Invited Out to Tea
-“And what are your eyes popping out of your head about now?” asked Marilla, when Anne had just come in from a run to the post-office.
+“And what are your eyes popping out of your head about.
+Now?”
+asked Marilla, when Anne had just come in from a run to the post office.
@@ -5 +6,0 @@ Anne Is Invited Out to Tea
-
@@ -10,2 +11,2 @@ She had come dancing up the lane, like a wind-blown sprite, through the mellow s
-I am invited to tea at the manse to-morrow afternoon!
-Mrs. Allan left the letter for me at the post-office.
+I am invited to tea at the manse tomorrow afternoon!
+Mrs. Allan left the letter for me at the post office.
@@ -16 +17 @@ Such a thrill as it gave me!
-I shall cherish it for ever among my choicest treasures.”
+I shall cherish it forever among my choicest treasures.”
@@ -28 +29 @@ The downfall of some dear hope or plan plunged Anne into “deeps of affliction.
-The fulfilment thereof exalted her to dizzy realms of delight.
+The fulfillment thereof exalted her to dizzy realms of delight.
@@ -32,2 +33,2 @@ Neither would she have believed that she really liked Anne much better as she wa
-Anne went to bed that night speechless with misery because Matthew had said the wind was round northeast and he feared it would be a rainy day to-morrow.
-The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering rain-drops, and the dull, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
+Anne went to bed that night speechless with misery because Matthew had said the wind was round northeast and he feared it would be a rainy day tomorrow.
+The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
@@ -38,2 +39 @@ The morning, in spite of Matthew’s predictions, was fine and Anne’s spirits
-
-“Oh, Marilla, there is something in me to-day that makes me just love everybody I see,” she exclaimed as she washed the breakfast dishes.
+“Oh, Marilla, there is something in me today that makes me just love everybody I see,” she exclaimed as she washed the breakfast dishes.
@@ -43 +43 @@ I believe I could be a model child if I were just invited out to tea every day.
-But oh, Marilla, it’s a solemn occasion, too.
+But oh, Marilla, it’s a solemn occasion too.
@@ -46 +46 @@ What if I shouldn’t behave properly?
-You know I never had tea at a manse before, and I’m not sure that I know all the rules of etiquette, although I’ve been studying the rules given in the Etiquette Department of the _Family Herald_ ever since I came here.
+You know I never had tea at a manse before, and I’m not sure that I know all the rules of etiquette, although I’ve been studying the rules given in the Etiquette Department of the Family Herald ever since I came here.
@@ -51 +51 @@ Would it be good manners to take a second helping of anything if you wanted to _
-You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable for her,” said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice.
+You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her,” said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice.
@@ -57 +57 @@ I’ll try not to think about myself at all.”
-Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of “etiquette” for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla’s gingham lap.
+Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of “etiquette,” for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla’s gingham lap.
@@ -60 +60 @@ A cool wind was blowing down over the long harvest fields from the rims of firry
-One clear star hung above the orchard and the fireflies were flitting over in Lovers’ Lane, in and out among the ferns and rustling boughs.
+One clear star hung over the orchard and the fireflies were flitting over in Lover’s Lane, in and out among the ferns and rustling boughs.
@@ -66 +66 @@ When I got there Mrs. Allan met me at the door.
-She was dressed in the sweetest dress of pale pink organdy, with dozens of frills and elbow sleeves, and she looked just like a seraph.
+She was dressed in the sweetest dress of pale-pink organdy, with dozens of frills and elbow sleeves, and she looked just like a seraph.
@@ -78 +78 @@ I love her passionately.
-You know there are some people, like Matthew and Mrs. Allan, that you can love right off without any trouble.
+You know there are some people, like Matthew and Mrs. Allan that you can love right off without any trouble.
@@ -81,2 +81,2 @@ You know you _ought_ to love them because they know so much and are such active
-There was another little girl at the manse to tea, from the White Sands Sunday-school.
-Her name was Lauretta Bradley, and she was a very nice little girl.
+There was another little girl at the manse to tea, from the White Sands Sunday school.
+Her name was Laurette Bradley, and she was a very nice little girl.
@@ -85 +85 @@ We had an elegant tea, and I think I kept all the rules of etiquette pretty well
-After tea Mrs. Allan played and sang and she got Lauretta and me to sing, too.
+After tea Mrs. Allan played and sang and she got Lauretta and me to sing too.
@@ -88,2 +88,2 @@ You can’t think how I was thrilled at the mere thought.
-I’ve longed so to sing in the Sunday-school choir, as Diana does, but I feared it was an honour I could never aspire to.
-Lauretta had to go home early because there is a big concert in the White Sands hotel to-night and her sister is to recite at it.
+I’ve longed so to sing in the Sunday-school choir, as Diana does, but I feared it was an honor I could never aspire to.
+Lauretta had to go home early because there is a big concert in the White Sands Hotel tonight and her sister is to recite at it.
@@ -91 +91 @@ Lauretta says that the Americans at the hotel give a concert every fortnight in
-Lauretta said she expected to be asked herself some day.
+Lauretta said she expected to be asked herself someday.
@@ -93 +93 @@ I just gazed at her in awe.
-After she had gone Mrs. Allan and I had a heart to heart talk.
+After she had gone Mrs. Allan and I had a heart-to-heart talk.
@@ -96 +96 @@ And would you believe it, Marilla?
-Mrs. Allan told me she was a dunce at geometry, too.
+Mrs. Allan told me she was a dunce at geometry too.
@@ -103 +103,2 @@ Mrs. Lynde says they’ve never had a female teacher in Avonlea before and she t
-But I think it will be splendid to have a lady teacher, and I really don’t see how I’m going to live through the two weeks before school begins, I’m so impatient to see her.”
\ No newline at end of file
+But I think it will be splendid to have a lady teacher, and I really don’t see how I’m going to live through the two weeks before school begins.
+I’m so impatient to see her.”
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chapters/23-XXIII.-Anne-Comes-to-Grief-in-an-Affair-of-Honour.utf8 b/chapters/23-XXIII.-Anne-Comes-to-Grief-in-an-Affair-of-Honour.utf8
index 4c252cb..1685949 100644
--- a/chapters/23-XXIII.-Anne-Comes-to-Grief-in-an-Affair-of-Honour.utf8
+++ b/chapters/23-XXIII.-Anne-Comes-to-Grief-in-an-Affair-of-Honour.utf8
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honour
+Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
@@ -4 +4 @@ Anne had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened.
-Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absent-mindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
+Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
@@ -17,2 +17 @@ It had begun among the boys, but soon spread to the girls, and all the silly thi
-First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow-tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.
-
+First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.
@@ -31 +30 @@ Anne tossed her red braids.
-“I knew a girl in Marysville who could walk the ridge-pole of a roof.”
+“I knew a girl in Marysville who could walk the ridgepole of a roof.”
@@ -34 +33 @@ Anne tossed her red braids.
-“I don’t believe anybody could walk a ridge-pole.
+“I don’t believe anybody could walk a ridgepole.
@@ -40 +39 @@ _You_ couldn’t, anyhow.”
-“I dare you to climb up there and walk the ridge-pole of Mr. Barry’s kitchen roof.”
+“I dare you to climb up there and walk the ridgepole of Mr. Barry’s kitchen roof.”
@@ -43 +42 @@ Anne turned pale, but there was clearly only one thing to be done.
-She walked towards the house, where a ladder was leaning against the kitchen roof.
+She walked toward the house, where a ladder was leaning against the kitchen roof.
@@ -52,2 +51,2 @@ It isn’t fair to dare anybody to do anything so dangerous.”
-My honour is at stake,” said Anne solemnly.
-“I shall walk that ridge-pole, Diana, or perish in the attempt.
+My honor is at stake,” said Anne solemnly.
+“I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt.
@@ -56 +55 @@ If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring.”
-Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridge-pole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridge-poles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.
+Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.
@@ -58 +57 @@ Nevertheless, she managed to take several steps before the catastrophe came.
-Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered and fell, sliding down over the sun-baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath—all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.
+Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun-baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath—all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.
@@ -60 +59 @@ Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered and fell, sliding down ov
-If Anne had tumbled off the roof on the side up which she ascended Diana would probably have fallen heir to the pearl bead ring then and there.
+If Anne had tumbled off the roof on the side up which she had ascended Diana would probably have fallen heir to the pearl bead ring then and there.
@@ -73 +71,0 @@ To the immense relief of all the girls, and especially of Josie Pye, who, in spi
-
@@ -89 +87 @@ At that moment Marilla had a revelation.
-In the sudden stab of fear that pierced to her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her.
+In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her.
@@ -91 +89 @@ She would have admitted that she liked Anne—nay, that she was very fond of Ann
-But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything on earth.
+But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.
@@ -98 +96 @@ Anne herself answered, lifting her head.
-I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off.
+I was walking the ridgepole and I fell off.
@@ -111 +109 @@ She had fainted dead away.
-Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway despatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.
+Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.
@@ -120 +118 @@ That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white-faced girl was
-“And that is just why you should be sorry for me,” said Anne, “because the thought that it _is_ all my own fault is what makes it so hard.
+“And that is just why you should be sorry for me,” said Anne, “because the thought that it is all my own fault is what makes it so hard.
@@ -122 +120 @@ If I could blame it on anybody I would feel so much better.
-But what would you have done, Marilla, if you had been dared to walk a ridge-pole?”
+But what would you have done, Marilla, if you had been dared to walk a ridgepole?”
@@ -138 +136 @@ She won’t be new any more by the time I’m able to go to school.
-And Gil— everybody will get ahead of me in class.
+And Gil—everybody will get ahead of me in class.
@@ -143 +141 @@ But I’ll try to bear it all bravely if only you won’t be cross with me, Mari
-“You’re an unlucky child, there’s no doubt about that; but, as you say, you’ll have the suffering of it.
+“You’re an unlucky child, there’s no doubt about that; but as you say, you’ll have the suffering of it.
@@ -155 +153 @@ She had many visitors and not a day passed without one or more of the schoolgirl
-“It isn’t very pleasant to be laid up; but there _is_ a bright side to it, Marilla.
+“It isn’t very pleasant to be laid up; but there is a bright side to it, Marilla.
@@ -165,2 +163,2 @@ It does seem so strange to think of Superintendent Bell ever being a boy.
-Even my imagination has its limits for I can’t imagine _that_.
-When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday-school, only small.
+Even my imagination has its limits, for I can’t imagine _that_.
+When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday school, only small.
@@ -173 +171 @@ She never tells you it’s your own fault and she hopes you’ll be a better gir
-Mrs. Lynde always told me that when she came to see me; and she said it in a kind of way that made me feel she might hope I’d be a better girl, but didn’t really believe I would.
+Mrs. Lynde always told me that when she came to see me; and she said it in a kind of way that made me feel she might hope I’d be a better girl but didn’t really believe I would.
@@ -175,2 +173,2 @@ Even Josie Pye came to see me.
-I received her as politely as I could, because I think she was sorry she dared me to walk a ridge-pole.
-If I had been killed she would have had to carry a dark burden of remorse all her life.
+I received her as politely as I could, because I think she was sorry she dared me to walk a ridgepole.
+If I had been killed she would had to carry a dark burden of remorse all her life.
@@ -185 +183 @@ Oh, it’s just glorious to think of it.
-Josie Pye says she hates it, but that is just because Josie has so little imagination.
+Josie Pye says she hates it but that is just because Josie has so little imagination.
@@ -189 +187 @@ And they have physical culture exercises every morning and evening.
-Mrs. Lynde says she never heard of such goings-on and it all comes of having a lady teacher.
+Mrs. Lynde says she never heard of such goings on and it all comes of having a lady teacher.
diff --git a/chapters/24-XXIV.-Miss-Stacy-and-Her-Pupils-Get-Up-a-Concert.utf8 b/chapters/24-XXIV.-Miss-Stacy-and-Her-Pupils-Get-Up-a-Concert.utf8
index 489c4f3..9e2d6c8 100644
--- a/chapters/24-XXIV.-Miss-Stacy-and-Her-Pupils-Get-Up-a-Concert.utf8
+++ b/chapters/24-XXIV.-Miss-Stacy-and-Her-Pupils-Get-Up-a-Concert.utf8
@@ -12 +12 @@ Miss Stacy was a bright, sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of winning
-Anne expanded like a flower under this wholesome influence and carried home to the admiring Matthew and the critical Marilla glowing accounts of school work and aims.
+Anne expanded like a flower under this wholesome influence and carried home to the admiring Matthew and the critical Marilla glowing accounts of schoolwork and aims.
@@ -16 +16 @@ She is so ladylike and she has such a sweet voice.
-When she pronounces my name I feel _instinctively_ that she’s spelling it with an _e_.
+When she pronounces my name I feel _instinctively_ that she’s spelling it with an E.
@@ -20 +20 @@ I just put my whole soul into it.
-Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, ‘Now for my father’s arm, she said, my woman’s heart farewell,’ just made her blood run cold.”
+Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, ‘Now for my father’s arm,’ she said, ‘my woman’s heart farewell,’ just made her blood run cold.”
@@ -53 +53 @@ That is, if I don’t go out as a foreign missionary.
-That would be very romantic, but one would have to be very good to be a missionary, and that would be a stumbling-block.
+That would be very romantic, but one would have to be very good to be a missionary, and that would be a stumbling block.
@@ -60,2 +60,2 @@ But all the field afternoons and recitation Fridays and physical culture contort
-This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas night, for the laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag.
-The pupils one and all taking graciously to this plan, the preparations for a programme were begun at once.
+This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas Night, for the laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag.
+The pupils one and all taking graciously to this plan, the preparations for a program were begun at once.
@@ -80 +80 @@ I’m in two dialogues—‘The Society for the Suppression of Gossip’ and ‘
-The boys are going to have a dialogue, too.
+The boys are going to have a dialogue too.
@@ -86 +86 @@ I’m to be Hope, with my hands clasped—so—and my eyes uplifted.
-I’m going to practise my recitations in the garret.
+I’m going to practice my recitations in the garret.
@@ -93 +93 @@ Fairy queens must be slender.
-Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honour.
+Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor.
@@ -116 +116 @@ That was Marilla’s exclusive duty; if it had been his he would have been worri
-As it was, he was free to “spoil Anne”—Marilla’s phrasing—as much as he liked.
+As it was, he was free to, “spoil Anne”—Marilla’s phrasing—as much as he liked.
diff --git a/chapters/25-XXV.-Matthew-Insists-on-Puffed-Sleeves.utf8 b/chapters/25-XXV.-Matthew-Insists-on-Puffed-Sleeves.utf8
index a5317c6..36a828c 100644
--- a/chapters/25-XXV.-Matthew-Insists-on-Puffed-Sleeves.utf8
+++ b/chapters/25-XXV.-Matthew-Insists-on-Puffed-Sleeves.utf8
@@ -4 +4 @@ Matthew was having a bad ten minutes of it.
-He had come into the kitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat down in the wood-box corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of the fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice of “The Fairy Queen” in the sitting-room.
+He had come into the kitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat down in the woodbox corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of the fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice of “The Fairy Queen” in the sitting room.
@@ -6,2 +6,2 @@ Presently they came trooping through the hall and out into the kitchen, laughing
-They did not see Matthew, who shrank bashfully back into the shadows beyond the wood-box with a boot in one hand and a bootjack in the other, and he watched them shyly for the aforesaid ten minutes as they put on caps and jackets and talked about the dialogue and the concert.
-Anne stood among them, bright-eyed and animated as they; but Matthew suddenly became conscious that there was something about her different from her mates.
+They did not see Matthew, who shrank bashfully back into the shadows beyond the woodbox with a boot in one hand and a bootjack in the other, and he watched them shyly for the aforesaid ten minutes as they put on caps and jackets and talked about the dialogue and the concert.
+Anne stood among them, bright eyed and animated as they; but Matthew suddenly became conscious that there was something about her different from her mates.
@@ -9 +9 @@ And what worried Matthew was that the difference impressed him as being somethin
-Anne had a brighter face, and bigger, starrier eyes, and more delicate features than the others; even shy, unobservant Matthew had learned to take note of these things; but the difference that disturbed him did not consist in any of these respects.
+Anne had a brighter face, and bigger, starrier eyes, and more delicate features than the other; even shy, unobservant Matthew had learned to take note of these things; but the difference that disturbed him did not consist in any of these respects.
@@ -22 +22 @@ Marilla kept her clothed in plain, dark dresses, all made after the same unvaryi
-If Matthew knew there was such a thing as fashion in dress it is much as he did; but he was quite sure that Anne’s sleeves did not look at all like the sleeves the other girls wore.
+If Matthew knew there was such a thing as fashion in dress it was as much as he did; but he was quite sure that Anne’s sleeves did not look at all like the sleeves the other girls wore.
@@ -55 +55 @@ Miss Harris looked somewhat surprised, as well she might, to hear a man inquirin
-“I believe we have one or two left over,” she said, “but they’re up-stairs in the lumber-room.
+“I believe we have one or two left over,” she said, “but they’re upstairs in the lumber room.
@@ -57 +56,0 @@ I’ll go and see.”
-
@@ -60 +59,2 @@ During her absence Matthew collected his scattered senses for another effort.
-When Miss Harris returned with the rake and cheerfully inquired: “Anything else to-night, Mr. Cuthbert?” Matthew took his courage in both hands and replied: “Well now, since you suggest it, I might as well—take—that is—look at—buy some—some hayseed.”
+When Miss Harris returned with the rake and cheerfully inquired: “Anything else tonight, Mr. Cuthbert?”
+Matthew took his courage in both hands and replied: “Well now, since you suggest it, I might as well—take—that is—look at—buy some—some hayseed.”
@@ -83 +83 @@ While Miss Harris was counting out his change he rallied his powers for a final
-Matthew had driven half-way home before he was his own man again.
+Matthew had driven halfway home before he was his own man again.
@@ -85 +85 @@ It had been a gruesome experience, but it served him right, he thought, for comm
-When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool-house, but the sugar he carried in to Marilla.
+When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool house, but the sugar he carried in to Marilla.
@@ -89 +89 @@ When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool-house, but the sugar he carried
-You know I never use it except for the hired man’s porridge or black fruit-cake.
+You know I never use it except for the hired man’s porridge or black fruit cake.
@@ -103 +103 @@ To be sure I will.
-I’m going to Carmody to-morrow and I’ll attend to it.
+I’m going to Carmody tomorrow and I’ll attend to it.
@@ -128 +128 @@ Folks that has brought up children know that there’s no hard and fast method i
-But them as never have think it’s all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum’ll work out correct.
+But them as never have think it’s all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum ‘ll work out correct.
@@ -151,2 +151,2 @@ Anne peeped out from her frosted gable window with delighted eyes.
-The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful; the birches and wild cherry-trees were outlined in pearl; the ploughed fields were stretches of snowy dimples; and there was a crisp tang in the air that was glorious.
-Anne ran down-stairs singing until her voice re-echoed through Green Gables.
+The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful; the birches and wild cherry trees were outlined in pearl; the plowed fields were stretches of snowy dimples; and there was a crisp tang in the air that was glorious.
+Anne ran downstairs singing until her voice reechoed through Green Gables.
@@ -160 +160 @@ I don’t like green Christmases.
-They’re _not_ green—they’re just nasty faded browns and grays.
+They’re not green—they’re just nasty faded browns and grays.
@@ -168 +168 @@ Anne took the dress and looked at it in reverent silence.
-Oh, how pretty it was—a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pin-tucked in the most fashionable way, with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.
+Oh, how pretty it was—a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pintucked in the most fashionable way, with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.
@@ -170 +170 @@ But the sleeves—they were the crowning glory!
-Long elbow cuffs, and above them two beautiful puffs divided by rows of shirring and bows of brown silk ribbon.
+Long elbow cuffs, and above them two beautiful puffs divided by rows of shirring and bows of brown-silk ribbon.
@@ -178 +178 @@ For Anne’s eyes had suddenly filled with tears.
-“_Like_ it!
+“Like it!
@@ -198 +198 @@ I’d never have felt quite satisfied, you see.
-It was lovely of Mrs. Lynde to give me the ribbon, too.
+It was lovely of Mrs. Lynde to give me the ribbon too.
@@ -224 +224 @@ I must be dreaming.”
-“_I_ call it providential,” said Diana.
+“I call it providential,” said Diana.
@@ -245 +245 @@ I felt prouder than you did when it was encored.
-I just said to myself, ‘It is my dear bosom friend who is so honoured.’”
+I just said to myself, ‘It is my dear bosom friend who is so honored.’”
@@ -257 +257 @@ I just felt like a parrot.
-It’s providential that I practised those recitations so often up in the garret, or I’d never have been able to get through.
+It’s providential that I practiced those recitations so often up in the garret, or I’d never have been able to get through.
@@ -272 +272 @@ When you ran off the platform after the fairy dialogue one of your roses fell ou
-I saw Gil pick it up and put it in his breast-pocket.
+I saw Gil pick it up and put it in his breast pocket.
@@ -279 +279 @@ You’re so romantic that I’m sure you ought to be pleased at that.”
-That night Marilla and Matthew, who had been out to a concert for the first time in twenty years, sat for awhile by the kitchen fire after Anne had gone to bed.
+That night Marilla and Matthew, who had been out to a concert for the first time in twenty years, sat for a while by the kitchen fire after Anne had gone to bed.
@@ -285 +285 @@ That night Marilla and Matthew, who had been out to a concert for the first time
-And she looked real nice, too.
+And she looked real nice too.
@@ -287 +287 @@ I’ve been kind of opposed to this concert scheme, but I suppose there’s no r
-Anyhow, I was proud of Anne to-night, although I’m not going to tell her so.”
+Anyhow, I was proud of Anne tonight, although I’m not going to tell her so.”
@@ -289 +289 @@ Anyhow, I was proud of Anne to-night, although I’m not going to tell her so.
-“Well now, I was proud of her and I did tell her so ’fore she went up-stairs,” said Matthew.
+“Well now, I was proud of her and I did tell her so ‘fore she went upstairs,” said Matthew.
@@ -295 +295 @@ I guess she’ll need something more than Avonlea school by and by.”
-Though to-night it struck me she was growing quite a big girl.
+Though tonight it struck me she was growing quite a big girl.
diff --git a/chapters/26-XXVI.-The-Story-Club-Is-Formed.utf8 b/chapters/26-XXVI.-The-Story-Club-Is-Formed.utf8
index c3ff31b..0e5dd81 100644
--- a/chapters/26-XXVI.-The-Story-Club-Is-Formed.utf8
+++ b/chapters/26-XXVI.-The-Story-Club-Is-Formed.utf8
@@ -5 +5 @@ To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable afte
-Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those far-away days before the concert?
+Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before the concert?
@@ -9 +9 @@ At first, as she told Diana, she did not really think she could.
-“Perhaps after awhile I’ll get used to it, but I’m afraid concerts spoil people for every-day life.
+“Perhaps after a while I’ll get used to it, but I’m afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.
@@ -22 +22 @@ To be sure, the concert left traces.
-Ruby Gillis and Emma White, who had quarrelled over a point of precedence in their platform seats, no longer sat at the same desk, and a promising friendship of three years was broken up.
+Ruby Gillis and Emma White, who had quarreled over a point of precedence in their platform seats, no longer sat at the same desk, and a promising friendship of three years was broken up.
@@ -24,2 +24,2 @@ Josie Pye and Julia Bell did not “speak” for three months, because Josie Pye
-None of the Sloanes would have any dealings with the Bells, because the Bells had declared that the Sloanes had too much to do in the programme, and the Sloanes had retorted that the Bells were not capable of doing the little they had to do properly.
-Finally, Charlie Sloane fought Moody Spurgeon MacPherson, because Moody Spurgeon had said that Anne Shirley put on airs about her recitations, and Moody Spurgeon was “licked;” consequently Moody Spurgeon’s sister, Ella May, would not “speak” to Anne Shirley all the rest of the winter.
+None of the Sloanes would have any dealings with the Bells, because the Bells had declared that the Sloanes had too much to do in the program, and the Sloanes had retorted that the Bells were not capable of doing the little they had to do properly.
+Finally, Charlie Sloane fought Moody Spurgeon MacPherson, because Moody Spurgeon had said that Anne Shirley put on airs about her recitations, and Moody Spurgeon was “licked”; consequently Moody Spurgeon’s sister, Ella May, would not “speak” to Anne Shirley all the rest of the winter.
@@ -32 +32 @@ On Anne’s birthday they were tripping lightly down it, keeping eyes and ears a
-“Just think, Diana, I’m thirteen years old to-day,” remarked Anne in an awed voice.
+“Just think, Diana, I’m thirteen years old today,” remarked Anne in an awed voice.
@@ -40 +40 @@ It’s a great comfort to think that I’ll be able to use big words then withou
-“Ruby Gillis says she means to have a beau as soon as she’s fifteen,” said Diana.
+“Ruby Gillis says she means to have a beau as soon as she’s fifteen,”  said Diana.
@@ -43 +43 @@ It’s a great comfort to think that I’ll be able to use big words then withou
-“She’s actually delighted when any one writes her name up in a take-notice for all she pretends to be so mad.
+“She’s actually delighted when anyone writes her name up in a take-notice for all she pretends to be so mad.
@@ -83 +83 @@ Anne nodded, trying hard not to look virtuously complacent and failing miserably
-It’s called ‘The Jealous Rival; or, in Death Not Divided.’
+It’s called ‘The Jealous Rival; or In Death Not Divided.’
@@ -98 +98 @@ I wanted something out of the common.
-Geraldine had an alabaster brow, too.
+Geraldine had an alabaster brow too.
@@ -110 +110 @@ I asked Ruby Gillis if she knew anything about how men proposed because I though
-Ruby told me she was hid in the hall pantry when Malcolm Andrews proposed to her sister Susan.
+Ruby told me she was hid in the hall pantry when Malcolm Andres proposed to her sister Susan.
@@ -112 +112 @@ She said Malcolm told Susan that his dad had given him the farm in his own name
-And Susan said, ‘Yes—no—I don’t know—let me see,’—and there they were, engaged as quick as that.
+And Susan said, ‘Yes—no—I don’t know—let me see’—and there they were, engaged as quick as that.
@@ -138 +138 @@ I wish my imagination was as good as yours.”
-Let you and I have a story club all our own and write stories for practice.
+Let you and me have a story club all our own and write stories for practice.
@@ -156,2 +156,2 @@ Ruby Gillis is rather sentimental.
-She puts too much love-making into her stories and you know too much is worse than too little.
-Jane never puts any because she says it makes her feel so silly when she has to read it out loud.
+She puts too much lovemaking into her stories and you know too much is worse than too little.
+Jane never puts any because she says it makes her feel so silly when she had to read it out loud.
@@ -188 +188 @@ Do you think there is any prospect of it, Marilla?”
-“I shouldn’t say there was a great deal,” was Marilla’s encouraging answer.
+“I shouldn’t say there was a great deal” was Marilla’s encouraging answer.
@@ -196 +196 @@ Mrs. Lynde says it is.
-Mrs. Lynde says she always feels shocked when she hears of any one ever having been naughty, no matter how small they were.
+Mrs. Lynde says she always feels shocked when she hears of anyone ever having been naughty, no matter how small they were.
diff --git a/chapters/27-XXVII.-Vanity-and-Vexation-of-Spirit.utf8 b/chapters/27-XXVII.-Vanity-and-Vexation-of-Spirit.utf8
index 7fbfbd3..c248cce 100644
--- a/chapters/27-XXVII.-Vanity-and-Vexation-of-Spirit.utf8
+++ b/chapters/27-XXVII.-Vanity-and-Vexation-of-Spirit.utf8
@@ -5 +5 @@ Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings.
-She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry-room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirror-like wood-pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.
+She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.
@@ -12 +12 @@ Consequently, when Marilla entered her kitchen and found the fire black out, wit
-She had told Anne to be sure and have tea ready at five o’clock, but now she must hurry to take off her second-best dress and prepare the meal herself against Matthew’s return from ploughing.
+She had told Anne to be sure and have tea ready at five o’clock, but now she must hurry to take off her second-best dress and prepare the meal herself against Matthew’s return from plowing.
@@ -14 +14 @@ She had told Anne to be sure and have tea ready at five o’clock, but now she m
-“I’ll settle Miss Anne when she comes home,” said Marilla grimly, as she shaved up kindlings with a carving knife and more vim than was strictly necessary.
+“I’ll settle Miss Anne when she comes home,” said Marilla grimly, as she shaved up kindlings with a carving knife and with more vim than was strictly necessary.
@@ -16 +16 @@ Matthew had come in and was waiting patiently for his tea in his corner.
-“She’s gadding off somewhere with Diana, writing stories or practising dialogues or some such tomfoolery, and never thinking once about the time or her duties.
+“She’s gadding off somewhere with Diana, writing stories or practicing dialogues or some such tomfoolery, and never thinking once about the time or her duties.
@@ -22 +22 @@ But there!
-Here I am saying the very thing I was so riled with Rachel Lynde for saying at the Aid to-day.
+Here I am saying the very thing I was so riled with Rachel Lynde for saying at the Aid today.
@@ -39 +39 @@ But I’m bringing her up, not you.”
-It was dark when supper was ready, and still no sign of Anne, coming hurriedly over the log bridge or up Lovers’ Lane, breathless and repentant with a sense of neglected duties.
+It was dark when supper was ready, and still no sign of Anne, coming hurriedly over the log bridge or up Lover’s Lane, breathless and repentant with a sense of neglected duties.
@@ -41 +41 @@ Marilla washed and put away the dishes grimly.
-Then, wanting a candle to light her down cellar, she went up to the east gable for the one that generally stood on Anne’s table.
+Then, wanting a candle to light her way down the cellar, she went up to the east gable for the one that generally stood on Anne’s table.
@@ -50 +50 @@ Lighting it, she turned around to see Anne herself lying on the bed, face downwa
-Anne cowered deeper into her pillows as if desirous of hiding herself for ever from mortal eyes.
+Anne cowered deeper into her pillows as if desirous of hiding herself forever from mortal eyes.
@@ -59 +59 @@ Please, Marilla, go away and don’t look at me.”
-“Did any one ever hear the like?” the mystified Marilla wanted to know.
+“Did anyone ever hear the like?” the mystified Marilla wanted to know.
@@ -76 +76 @@ Why, it’s _green!_”
-Green it might be called, if it were any earthly colour—a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect.
+Green it might be called, if it were any earthly color—a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect.
@@ -101 +101 @@ Besides, I meant to be extra good in other ways to make up for it.”
-“Well,” said Marilla sarcastically, “if I’d decided it was worth while to dye my hair I’d have dyed it a decent colour at least.
+“Well,” said Marilla sarcastically, “if I’d decided it was worth while to dye my hair I’d have dyed it a decent color at least.
@@ -109 +109 @@ I know what it feels like to have your word doubted.
-And Mrs. Allan says we should never suspect any one of not telling us the truth unless we have proof that they’re not.
+And Mrs. Allan says we should never suspect anyone of not telling us the truth unless we have proof that they’re not.
@@ -116 +116 @@ Who are you talking about?”
-“The pedlar that was here this afternoon.
+“The peddler that was here this afternoon.
@@ -129,2 +129,2 @@ Then all at once I saw the bottle of hair dye.
-The pedlar said it was warranted to dye any hair a beautiful raven black and wouldn’t wash off.
-In a trice I saw myself with beautiful raven black hair and the temptation was irresistible.
+The peddler said it was warranted to dye any hair a beautiful raven black and wouldn’t wash off.
+In a trice I saw myself with beautiful raven-black hair and the temptation was irresistible.
@@ -132,3 +132,3 @@ But the price of the bottle was seventy-five cents and I had only fifty cents le
-I think the pedlar had a very kind heart, for he said that, seeing it was me, he’d sell it for fifty cents and that was just giving it away.
-So I bought it, and as soon as he had gone I came up here and applied it with an old hair-brush as the directions said.
-I used up the whole bottle, and oh, Marilla, when I saw the dreadful colour it turned my hair I repented of being wicked, I can tell you.
+I think the peddler had a very kind heart, for he said that, seeing it was me, he’d sell it for fifty cents and that was just giving it away.
+So I bought it, and as soon as he had gone I came up here and applied it with an old hairbrush as the directions said.
+I used up the whole bottle, and oh, Marilla, when I saw the dreadful color it turned my hair I repented of being wicked, I can tell you.
@@ -142 +142 @@ Accordingly, Anne washed her hair, scrubbing it vigorously with soap and water,
-The pedlar had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn’t wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.
+The peddler had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn’t wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.
@@ -149 +149 @@ They will think I am not respectable.
-Oh, Marilla, ‘what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.’
+Oh, Marilla, ‘what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’
@@ -172 +172 @@ The girls in books lose their hair in fevers or sell it to get money for some go
-But there is nothing comforting in having your hair cut off because you’ve dyed it a dreadful colour, is there?
+But there is nothing comforting in having your hair cut off because you’ve dyed it a dreadful color, is there?
@@ -176 +176 @@ It seems such a tragic thing.”
-Anne wept then, but later on, when she went up-stairs and looked in the glass, she was calm with despair.
+Anne wept then, but later on, when she went upstairs and looked in the glass, she was calm with despair.
diff --git a/chapters/28-XXVIII.-An-Unfortunate-Lily-Maid.utf8 b/chapters/28-XXVIII.-An-Unfortunate-Lily-Maid.utf8
index ffd2b8c..13c12f5 100644
--- a/chapters/28-XXVIII.-An-Unfortunate-Lily-Maid.utf8
+++ b/chapters/28-XXVIII.-An-Unfortunate-Lily-Maid.utf8
@@ -6 +6 @@ An Unfortunate Lily Maid
-“Nor I,” said Ruby Gillis with a shiver.
+“Nor I,” said Ruby Gillis, with a shiver.
@@ -12,2 +12 @@ I’d die really of fright.”
-“Of course it would be romantic,” conceded Jane Andrews.
-“But I know I couldn’t keep still.
+“Of course it would be romantic,” conceded Jane Andrews, “but I know I couldn’t keep still.
@@ -17,2 +16,2 @@ And you know, Anne, that would spoil the effect.”
-“But it’s so ridiculous to have a red-headed Elaine,” mourned Anne.
-“I’m not afraid to float down and I’d _love_ to be Elaine.
+“But it’s so ridiculous to have a redheaded Elaine,” mourned Anne.
+“I’m not afraid to float down and I’d love to be Elaine.
@@ -27 +26 @@ Now, a red-haired person cannot be a lily maid.”
-“I’ve sometimes thought it was myself—but I never dared to ask any one for fear she would tell me it wasn’t.
+“I’ve sometimes thought it was myself—but I never dared to ask anyone for fear she would tell me it wasn’t.
@@ -46 +45 @@ Anne’s plan was hailed with enthusiasm.
-The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing-place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond.
+The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond.
@@ -69 +68 @@ Jane rose to the occasion.
-Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crêpe was an excellent substitute.
+Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute.
@@ -73 +72 @@ A white lily was not obtainable just then, but the effect of a tall blue iris pl
-“We must kiss her quiet brows and, Diana, you say, ‘Sister, farewell for ever,’ and Ruby, you say, ‘Farewell, sweet sister,’ both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can.
+“We must kiss her quiet brows and, Diana, you say, ‘Sister, farewell forever,’ and Ruby, you say, ‘Farewell, sweet sister,’ both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can.
@@ -122 +121 @@ Her imagination began to suggest all manner of gruesome possibilities to her.
-Then, just as she thought she really could not endure the ache in her arms and wrists another moment, Gilbert Blythe came rowing under the bridge in Harmon Andrews’ dory!
+Then, just as she thought she really could not endure the ache in her arms and wrists another moment, Gilbert Blythe came rowing under the bridge in Harmon Andrews’s dory!
@@ -130 +129 @@ Without waiting for an answer he pulled close to the pile and extended his hand.
-There was no help for it; Anne, clinging to Gilbert Blythe’s hand, scrambled down into the dory, where she sat, drabbled and furious, in the stern with her arms full of dripping shawl and wet crêpe.
+There was no help for it; Anne, clinging to Gilbert Blythe’s hand, scrambled down into the dory, where she sat, drabbled and furious, in the stern with her arms full of dripping shawl and wet crepe.
@@ -134,2 +133 @@ It was certainly extremely difficult to be dignified under the circumstances!
-
-“We were playing Elaine,” explained Anne frigidly, without even looking at her rescuer, “and I had to drift down to Camelot in the barge—I mean the flat.
+“We were playing Elaine” explained Anne frigidly, without even looking at her rescuer, “and I had to drift down to Camelot in the barge—I mean the flat.
@@ -166 +164 @@ She would never forgive him!
-Gilbert sprang into his skiff with an angry colour in his cheeks.
+Gilbert sprang into his skiff with an angry color in his cheeks.
@@ -177 +175 @@ She was really quite unstrung, for the reaction from her fright and cramped clin
-Half-way up the path she met Jane and Diana rushing back to the pond in a state narrowly removed from positive frenzy.
+Halfway up the path she met Jane and Diana rushing back to the pond in a state narrowly removed from positive frenzy.
@@ -182 +180 @@ There they had found nobody either, for Marilla had gone to Carmody and Matthew
-“Oh, Anne,” gasped Diana, fairly falling on the former’s neck and weeping with relief and delight, “Oh, Anne—we thought—you were—drowned—and we felt like murderers—because we had made—you be—Elaine.
+“Oh, Anne,” gasped Diana, fairly falling on the former’s neck and weeping with relief and delight, “oh, Anne—we thought—you were—drowned—and we felt like murderers—because we had made—you be—Elaine.
@@ -185 +183 @@ And Ruby is in hysterics—oh, Anne, how did you escape?”
-“I climbed up on one of the piles,” explained Anne wearily, “and Gilbert Blythe came along in Mr. Andrews’ dory and brought me to land.”
+“I climbed up on one of the piles,” explained Anne wearily, “and Gilbert Blythe came along in Mr. Andrews’s dory and brought me to land.”
@@ -191,2 +189,2 @@ Why, it’s so romantic!” said Jane, finding breath enough for utterance at la
-“Of course I won’t,” flashed Anne with a momentary return of her old spirit.
-“And I don’t want ever to hear the word romantic again, Jane Andrews.
+“Of course I won’t,” flashed Anne, with a momentary return of her old spirit.
+“And I don’t want ever to hear the word ‘romantic’ again, Jane Andrews.
@@ -202 +200 @@ Great was the consternation in the Barry and Cuthbert households when the events
-“Will you _ever_ have any sense, Anne?” groaned Marilla.
+“Will you ever have any sense, Anne?” groaned Marilla.
@@ -210 +208 @@ A good cry, indulged in the grateful solitude of the east gable, had soothed her
-“Well,” explained Anne, “I’ve learned a new and valuable lesson to-day.
+“Well,” explained Anne, “I’ve learned a new and valuable lesson today.
@@ -217 +215 @@ I never think about my hair and nose now—at least, very seldom.
-And to-day’s mistake is going to cure me of being too romantic.
+And today’s mistake is going to cure me of being too romantic.
diff --git "a/chapters/29-XXIX.-An-Epoch-in-Anne\342\200\231s-Life.utf8" "b/chapters/29-XXIX.-An-Epoch-in-Anne\342\200\231s-Life.utf8"
index d68b5d4..448b808 100644
--- "a/chapters/29-XXIX.-An-Epoch-in-Anne\342\200\231s-Life.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/29-XXIX.-An-Epoch-in-Anne\342\200\231s-Life.utf8"
@@ -3 +3 @@ An Epoch in Anne’s Life
-Anne was bringing the cows home from the back pasture by way of Lovers’ Lane.
+Anne was bringing the cows home from the back pasture by way of Lover’s Lane.
@@ -6 +6 @@ Here and there the lane was splashed with it, but for the most part it was alrea
-The winds were out in their tops, and there is no sweeter music on earth than that which the wind makes in the fir-trees at evening.
+The winds were out in their tops, and there is no sweeter music on earth than that which the wind makes in the fir trees at evening.
@@ -8,2 +8,2 @@ The winds were out in their tops, and there is no sweeter music on earth than th
-The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from “Marmion”—which had also been part of their English course the preceding winter and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart—and exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its imagery.
-When she came to the lines:
+The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from _Marmion_—which had also been part of their English course the preceding winter and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart—and exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its imagery.
+When she came to the lines
@@ -37 +37 @@ Diana shook her head, her black eyes dancing with merriment.
-“I can’t think what it can be,” said Anne in despair, “unless it’s that Moody Spurgeon MacPherson saw you home from prayer-meeting last night.
+“I can’t think what it can be,” said Anne in despair, “unless it’s that Moody Spurgeon MacPherson saw you home from prayer meeting last night.
@@ -43 +43 @@ I knew you couldn’t guess it.
-Mother had a letter from Aunt Josephine to-day, and Aunt Josephine wants you and me to go to town next Tuesday and stop with her for the Exhibition.
+Mother had a letter from Aunt Josephine today, and Aunt Josephine wants you and me to go to town next Tuesday and stop with her for the Exhibition.
@@ -46 +46 @@ There!”
-“Oh, Diana,” whispered Anne, finding it necessary to lean up against a maple-tree for support, “do you really mean it?
+“Oh, Diana,” whispered Anne, finding it necessary to lean up against a maple tree for support, “do you really mean it?
@@ -52 +52 @@ I was bitterly disappointed, Diana.
-I felt so heart-broken that I wouldn’t say my prayers when I went to bed.
+I felt so heartbroken that I wouldn’t say my prayers when I went to bed.
@@ -55 +55 @@ But I repented of that and got up in the middle of the night and said them.”
-“I’ll tell you,” said Diana, “we’ll get mother to ask Marilla.
+“I’ll tell you,” said Diana, “we’ll get Mother to ask Marilla.
@@ -81 +81 @@ Marilla says it is very sinful.
-But it _is_ such an interesting subject, isn’t it?”
+But it is such an interesting subject, isn’t it?”
@@ -96 +96 @@ The air was fresh and crisp, and little smoke-blue mists curled through the vall
-Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbour shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
+Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbor shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty-blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
@@ -104 +104 @@ You’re taller than I am, I declare.
-And you’re ever so much better-looking than you used to be, too.
+And you’re ever so much better looking than you used to be, too.
@@ -110,3 +110,2 @@ I’m so glad you think there is, Miss Barry.”
-
-Miss Barry’s house was furnished with “great magnificence,” as Anne told Marilla afterwards.
-The two little country girls were rather abashed by the splendour of the parlour where Miss Barry left them when she went to see about dinner.
+Miss Barry’s house was furnished with “great magnificence,”  as Anne told Marilla afterward.
+The two little country girls were rather abashed by the splendor of the parlor where Miss Barry left them when she went to see about dinner.
@@ -116 +115 @@ The two little country girls were rather abashed by the splendour of the parlour
-I just wish Julia Bell could see this—she puts on such airs about her mother’s parlour.”
+I just wish Julia Bell could see this—she puts on such airs about her mother’s parlor.”
@@ -118 +117 @@ I just wish Julia Bell could see this—she puts on such airs about her mother
-“Velvet carpet,” sighed Anne luxuriously, “_and_ silk curtains!
+“Velvet carpet,” sighed Anne luxuriously, “and silk curtains!
@@ -132 +131 @@ I don’t really know which department was the most interesting.
-I think I liked the horses and the flowers and the fancy work best.
+I think I liked the horses and the flowers and the fancywork best.
@@ -140 +139 @@ She said she would always think of it after this when he was praying so solemnly
-Clara Louise MacPherson took a prize for painting, and Mrs. Lynde got first prize for home-made butter and cheese.
+Clara Louise MacPherson took a prize for painting, and Mrs. Lynde got first prize for homemade butter and cheese.
@@ -145,2 +144,2 @@ It made me feel dreadfully insignificant.
-And Miss Barry took us up to the grand stand to see the horse-races.
-Mrs. Lynde wouldn’t go; she said horse-racing was an abomination, and she being a church-member, thought it her bounden duty to set a good example by staying away.
+And Miss Barry took us up to the grandstand to see the horse races.
+Mrs. Lynde wouldn’t go; she said horse racing was an abomination and, she being a church member, thought it her bounden duty to set a good example by staying away.
@@ -148 +147 @@ But there were so many there I don’t believe Mrs. Lynde’s absence would ever
-I don’t think, though, that I ought to go very often to horse-races, because they _are_ awfully fascinating.
+I don’t think, though, that I ought to go very often to horse races, because they _are_ awfully fascinating.
@@ -181 +180 @@ I was so sorry when it was all over, and I told Miss Barry I didn’t see how I
-She said she thought if we went over to the restaurant across the street and had an ice-cream it might help me.
+She said she thought if we went over to the restaurant across the street and had an ice cream it might help me.
@@ -183 +182 @@ That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.
-The ice-cream was delicious, Marilla, and it was so lovely and dissipated to be sitting there eating it at eleven o’clock at night.
+The ice cream was delicious, Marilla, and it was so lovely and dissipated to be sitting there eating it at eleven o’clock at night.
@@ -189 +188 @@ And I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn’t born for city life and th
-It’s nice to be eating ice-cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o’clock at night once in awhile; but as a regular thing I’d rather be in the east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and that the wind was blowing in the firs across the brook.
+It’s nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o’clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I’d rather be in the east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and that the wind was blowing in the firs across the brook.
@@ -204 +203 @@ Friday brought going-home time, and Mr. Barry drove in for the girls.
-Diana would never have dared to do such a thing, and felt rather aghast at Anne’s freedom.
+Diana would never have dared to do such a thing and felt rather aghast at Anne’s freedom.
@@ -230 +229 @@ Anne ran blithely up the hill and into the kitchen, where a hot supper was waiti
-“Yes, and, oh, it’s so good to be back,” said Anne joyously.
+“Yes, and oh, it’s so good to be back,” said Anne joyously.
diff --git a/chapters/30-XXX.-The-Queen's-Class-Is-Organized.utf8 b/chapters/30-XXX.-The-Queen's-Class-Is-Organized.utf8
index e9ddfa0..f684d8b 100644
--- a/chapters/30-XXX.-The-Queen's-Class-Is-Organized.utf8
+++ b/chapters/30-XXX.-The-Queen's-Class-Is-Organized.utf8
@@ -1 +1 @@
-The Queen’s Class Is Organized
+The Queens Class Is Organized
@@ -6 +6 @@ Her eyes were tired, and she thought vaguely that she must see about having her
-It was nearly dark, for the dull November twilight had fallen around Green Gables, and the only light in the kitchen came from the dancing red flames in the stove.
+It was nearly dark, for the full November twilight had fallen around Green Gables, and the only light in the kitchen came from the dancing red flames in the stove.
@@ -8 +8 @@ It was nearly dark, for the dull November twilight had fallen around Green Gable
-Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearth-rug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cord-wood.
+Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood.
@@ -40 +40 @@ Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them int
-Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together for ever.
+Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever.
@@ -64 +64 @@ I meant to tell you, Marilla, honestly I did, but I forgot.
-Miss Stacy caught me reading ‘Ben Hur’ in school yesterday afternoon when I should have been studying my Canadian history.
+Miss Stacy caught me reading Ben Hur in school yesterday afternoon when I should have been studying my Canadian history.
@@ -66,4 +66,4 @@ Jane Andrews lent it to me.
-I was reading it at dinner-hour, and I had just got to the chariot-race when school went in.
-I was simply wild to know how it turned out—although I felt sure ‘Ben Hur’ must win, because it wouldn’t be poetical justice if he didn’t—so I spread the history open on my desk-lid and then tucked ‘Ben-Hur’ between the desk and my knee.
-It just looked as if I were studying Canadian history, you know, while all the while I was revelling in ‘Ben Hur.’
-I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy coming down the aisle until all at once I just looked up and there she was looking down at me, so reproachful like.
+I was reading it at dinner hour, and I had just got to the chariot race when school went in.
+I was simply wild to know how it turned out—although I felt sure Ben Hur must win, because it wouldn’t be poetical justice if he didn’t—so I spread the history open on my desk lid and then tucked Ben Hur between the desk and my knee.
+I just looked as if I were studying Canadian history, you know, while all the while I was reveling in Ben Hur.
+I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy coming down the aisle until all at once I just looked up and there she was looking down at me, so reproachful-like.
@@ -71 +71 @@ I can’t tell you how ashamed I felt, Marilla, especially when I heard Josie Py
-Miss Stacy took ‘Ben Hur’ away, but she never said a word then.
+Miss Stacy took Ben Hur away, but she never said a word then.
@@ -74 +74 @@ She said I had done very wrong in two respects.
-First, I was wasting the time I ought to have put on my studies; and secondly I was deceiving my teacher in trying to make it appear I was reading a history when it was a story-book instead.
+First, I was wasting the time I ought to have put on my studies; and secondly, I was deceiving my teacher in trying to make it appear I was reading a history when it was a storybook instead.
@@ -77 +77 @@ I was shocked.
-I cried bitterly, and asked Miss Stacy to forgive me and I’d never do such a thing again; and I offered to do penance by never so much as looking at ‘Ben Hur’ for a whole week, not even to see how the chariot-race turned out.
+I cried bitterly, and asked Miss Stacy to forgive me and I’d never do such a thing again; and I offered to do penance by never so much as looking at Ben Hur for a whole week, not even to see how the chariot race turned out.
@@ -81,2 +81,2 @@ So I think it wasn’t very kind of her to come up here to you about it after al
-“Miss Stacy never mentioned such a thing to me, Anne, and it’s only your guilty conscience that’s the matter with you.
-You have no business to be taking story-books to school.
+“Miss Stacy never mentioned such a thing to me, Anne, and its only your guilty conscience that’s the matter with you.
+You have no business to be taking storybooks to school.
@@ -86,2 +86,3 @@ When I was a girl I wasn’t so much as allowed to look at a novel.”
-“Oh, how can you call ‘Ben Hur’ a novel when it’s really such a religious book?” protested Anne.
-“Of course it’s a little too exciting to be proper reading for Sunday, and I only read it on week-days.
+“Oh, how can you call Ben Hur a novel when it’s really such a religious book?”
+protested Anne.
+“Of course it’s a little too exciting to be proper reading for Sunday, and I only read it on weekdays.
@@ -90 +91 @@ Miss Stacy made me promise that.
-She found me reading a book one day called, ‘The Lurid Mystery of the Haunted Hall.’
+She found me reading a book one day called, The Lurid Mystery of the Haunted Hall.
@@ -115 +116 @@ Anne straightened to her knees and clasped her hands.
-“It’s been the dream of my life—that is, for the last six months, ever since Ruby and Jane began to talk of studying for the entrance.
+“It’s been the dream of my life—that is, for the last six months, ever since Ruby and Jane began to talk of studying for the Entrance.
@@ -138 +139 @@ There is no hurry.
-You won’t be ready to try the entrance for a year and a half yet.
+You won’t be ready to try the Entrance for a year and a half yet.
@@ -171 +172 @@ He’s such a funny-looking boy with that big fat face, and his little blue eyes
-But perhaps he will be more intellectual-looking when he grows up.
+But perhaps he will be more intellectual looking when he grows up.
@@ -174 +175 @@ Charlie Sloane says he’s going to go into politics and be a member of Parliame
-“What is Gilbert Blythe going to be?” queried Marilla, seeing that Anne was opening her Cæsar.
+“What is Gilbert Blythe going to be?” queried Marilla, seeing that Anne was opening her Caesar.
@@ -184 +185 @@ Since the day by the pond when she had refused to listen to his plea for forgive
-He talked and jested with the other girls, exchanged books and puzzles with them, discussed lessons and plans, sometimes walked home with one or the other of them from prayer-meeting or Debating Club.
+He talked and jested with the other girls, exchanged books and puzzles with them, discussed lessons and plans, sometimes walked home with one or the other of them from prayer meeting or Debating Club.
@@ -196 +197 @@ She determined to “shroud her feelings in deepest oblivion,” and it may be s
-The only poor comfort he had was that she snubbed Charlie Sloane, unmercifully, continually and undeservedly.
+The only poor comfort he had was that she snubbed Charlie Sloane, unmercifully, continually, and undeservedly.
@@ -200 +201 @@ For Anne the days slipped by like golden beads on the necklace of the year.
-She was happy, eager, interested; there were lessons to be learned and honours to be won; delightful books to read; new pieces to be practised for the Sunday-school choir; pleasant Saturday afternoons at the manse with Mrs. Allan; and then, almost before Anne realized it, spring had come again to Green Gables and all the world was abloom once more.
+She was happy, eager, interested; there were lessons to be learned and honor to be won; delightful books to read; new pieces to be practiced for the Sunday-school choir; pleasant Saturday afternoons at the manse with Mrs. Allan; and then, almost before Anne realized it, spring had come again to Green Gables and all the world was abloom once more.
@@ -202 +203 @@ She was happy, eager, interested; there were lessons to be learned and honours t
-Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood-cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
+Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
@@ -212 +213 @@ It will be the tug of war, you know—the last year before the Entrance.”
-Josie Pye never scrupled to ask questions; in this instance the rest of the class felt grateful to her; none of them would have dared to ask it of Miss Stacy, but all wanted to, for there had been alarming rumours running at large through the school for some time that Miss Stacy was not coming back the next year—that she had been offered a position in the graded school of her own home district and meant to accept.
+Josie Pye never scrupled to ask questions; in this instance the rest of the class felt grateful to her; none of them would have dared to ask it of Miss Stacy, but all wanted to, for there had been alarming rumors running at large through the school for some time that Miss Stacy was not coming back the next year—that she had been offered a position in the grade school of her own home district and meant to accept.
@@ -223,2 +224,2 @@ Moody Spurgeon had never been so carried away by his feelings before, and he blu
-“Oh, I’m so glad,” said Anne with shining eyes.
-“Dear Miss Stacy, it would be perfectly dreadful if you didn’t come back.
+“Oh, I’m so glad,” said Anne, with shining eyes.
+“Dear Stacy, it would be perfectly dreadful if you didn’t come back.
@@ -227 +228 @@ I don’t believe I could have the heart to go on with my studies at all if anot
-When Anne got home that night she stacked all her text-books away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box.
+When Anne got home that night she stacked all her textbooks away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box.
@@ -229 +230 @@ When Anne got home that night she stacked all her text-books away in an old trun
-“I’m not even going to look at a school book in vacation,” she told Marilla.
+“I’m not even going to look at a schoolbook in vacation,” she told Marilla.
@@ -240 +241 @@ I think we’re going to have a very gay vacation.
-Ruby Gillis is going to have a birthday party soon and there’s the Sunday-school picnic and the missionary concert next month.
+Ruby Gillis is going to have a birthday party soon and there’s the Sunday school picnic and the missionary concert next month.
@@ -256 +257 @@ You’ll stay to tea?”
-“Well, seeing you’re so pressing, perhaps I might as well stay,” said Mrs. Rachel, who had not the slightest intention of doing anything else.
+“Well, seeing you’re so pressing, perhaps I might as well, stay” said Mrs. Rachel, who had not the slightest intention of doing anything else.
@@ -258 +259 @@ You’ll stay to tea?”
-Mrs. Rachel and Marilla sat comfortably in the parlour while Anne got the tea and made hot biscuits that were light and white enough to defy even Mrs. Rachel’s criticism.
+Mrs. Rachel and Marilla sat comfortably in the parlor while Anne got the tea and made hot biscuits that were light and white enough to defy even Mrs. Rachel’s criticism.
@@ -264 +265 @@ Mrs. Rachel and Marilla sat comfortably in the parlour while Anne got the tea an
-I used to be afraid she’d never get over her feather-brained ways, but she has and I wouldn’t be afraid to trust her in anything now.”
+I used to be afraid she’d never get over her featherbrained ways, but she has and I wouldn’t be afraid to trust her in anything now.”
@@ -268 +269 @@ I used to be afraid she’d never get over her feather-brained ways, but she has
-When I went home that night I says to Thomas, says I, ‘Mark my words, Thomas, Marilla Cuthbert’ll live to rue the step she’s took.’
+When I went home that night I says to Thomas, says I, ‘Mark my words, Thomas, Marilla Cuthbert ‘ll live to rue the step she’s took.’
@@ -276,2 +277,2 @@ She’s a real pretty girl got to be, though I can’t say I’m overly partial
-I like more snap and colour, like Diana Barry has or Ruby Gillis.
-Ruby Gillis’ looks are real showy.
+I like more snap and color, like Diana Barry has or Ruby Gillis.
+Ruby Gillis’s looks are real showy.
diff --git a/chapters/31-XXXI.-Where-the-Brook-and-River-Meet.utf8 b/chapters/31-XXXI.-Where-the-Brook-and-River-Meet.utf8
index 4366282..54a270e 100644
--- a/chapters/31-XXXI.-Where-the-Brook-and-River-Meet.utf8
+++ b/chapters/31-XXXI.-Where-the-Brook-and-River-Meet.utf8
@@ -3,3 +3,3 @@ Where the Brook and River Meet
-Anne had her “good” summer and enjoyed it whole-heartedly.
-She and Diana fairly lived outdoors, revelling in all the delights that Lovers’ Lane and the Dryad’s Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded.
-Marilla offered no objections to Anne’s gipsyings.
+Anne had her “good” summer and enjoyed it wholeheartedly.
+She and Diana fairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the delights that Lover’s Lane and the Dryad’s Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded.
+Marilla offered no objections to Anne’s gypsyings.
@@ -9 +9 @@ It was:
-“Keep that red-headed girl of yours in the open air all summer and don’t let her read books until she gets more spring into her step.”
+“Keep that redheaded girl of yours in the open air all summer and don’t let her read books until she gets more spring into her step.”
@@ -14 +14 @@ As a result, Anne had the golden summer of her life as far as freedom and frolic
-She walked, rowed, berried and dreamed to her heart’s content; and when September came she was bright-eyed and alert, with a step that would have satisfied the Spencervale doctor and a heart full of ambition and zest once more.
+She walked, rowed, berried, and dreamed to her heart’s content; and when September came she was bright-eyed and alert, with a step that would have satisfied the Spencervale doctor and a heart full of ambition and zest once more.
@@ -21 +21 @@ Mrs. Lynde says he is improving every day and the first thing we know some city
-But I don’t see the use of meeting trouble half-way, do you, Marilla?
+But I don’t see the use of meeting trouble halfway, do you, Marilla?
@@ -33 +33 @@ I’m sure Mrs. Lynde can pray every bit as well as Superintendent Bell and I’
-“Yes, I believe she could,” said Marilla drily.
+“Yes, I believe she could,” said Marilla dryly.
@@ -57 +57 @@ There isn’t a kinder soul in Avonlea and she never shirks her share of work.
-I sha’n’t worry so much over that after this.
+I shan’t worry so much over that after this.
@@ -70 +70 @@ I’m so glad you made my new dresses longer.
-That dark green one is so pretty and it was sweet of you to put on the flounce.
+That dark-green one is so pretty and it was sweet of you to put on the flounce.
@@ -78 +78 @@ Miss Stacy came back to Avonlea school and found all her pupils eager for work o
-Especially did the Queen’s class gird up their loins for the fray, for at the end of the coming year, dimly shadowing their pathway already, loomed up that fateful thing known as “the Entrance,” at the thought of which one and all felt their hearts sink into their very shoes.
+Especially did the Queen’s class gird up their loins for the fray, for at the end of the coming year, dimly shadowing their pathway already, loomed up that fateful thing known as “the Entrance,”  at the thought of which one and all felt their hearts sink into their very shoes.
@@ -84 +84 @@ But it was a jolly, busy, happy swift-flying winter.
-School work was as interesting, class rivalry as absorbing, as of yore.
+Schoolwork was as interesting, class rivalry as absorbing, as of yore.
@@ -87 +87 @@ New worlds of thought, feeling, and ambition, fresh, fascinating fields of unexp
-Hills peeped o’er hill and Alps on Alps arose.
+“Hills peeped o’er hill and Alps on Alps arose.”
@@ -89 +89 @@ Hills peeped o’er hill and Alps on Alps arose.
-Much of all this was due to Miss Stacy’s tactful, careful, broad-minded guidance.
+Much of all this was due to Miss Stacy’s tactful, careful, broadminded guidance.
@@ -102 +102 @@ Marilla loved the girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious
-And that night when Anne had gone to prayer-meeting with Diana Marilla sat alone in the wintry twilight and indulged in the weakness of a cry.
+And that night, when Anne had gone to prayer meeting with Diana, Marilla sat alone in the wintry twilight and indulged in the weakness of a cry.
@@ -123 +123 @@ What has come over you?”
-Anne coloured and laughed a little, as she dropped her book and looked dreamily out of the window, where big fat red buds were bursting out on the creeper in response to the lure of the spring sunshine.
+Anne colored and laughed a little, as she dropped her book and looked dreamily out of the window, where big fat red buds were bursting out on the creeper in response to the lure of the spring sunshine.
@@ -157,2 +157,2 @@ We’ve studied hard and Miss Stacy has drilled us thoroughly, but we mayn’t g
-We’ve each got a stumbling-block.
-Mine is geometry of course, and Jane’s is Latin and Ruby’s and Charlie’s is algebra and Josie’s is arithmetic.
+We’ve each got a stumbling block.
+Mine is geometry of course, and Jane’s is Latin, and Ruby and Charlie’s is algebra, and Josie’s is arithmetic.
@@ -174 +174 @@ Anne sighed and, dragging her eyes from the witcheries of the spring world, the
-There would be other springs, but if she did not succeed in passing the Entrance Anne felt convinced that she would never recover sufficiently to enjoy them.
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+There would be other springs, but if she did not succeed in passing the Entrance, Anne felt convinced that she would never recover sufficiently to enjoy them.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chapters/32-XXXII.-The-Pass-List-Is-Out.utf8 b/chapters/32-XXXII.-The-Pass-List-Is-Out.utf8
index eacbf22..65ee2ba 100644
--- a/chapters/32-XXXII.-The-Pass-List-Is-Out.utf8
+++ b/chapters/32-XXXII.-The-Pass-List-Is-Out.utf8
@@ -5 +5 @@ Anne and Diana walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed.
-Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy’s farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips’ had been under similar circumstances three years before.
+Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy’s farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips’s had been under similar circumstances three years before.
@@ -8 +8,2 @@ Diana looked back at the schoolhouse from the foot of the spruce hill and sighed
-“It does seem as if it was the end of everything, doesn’t it?” she said dismally.
+“It does seem as if it was the end of everything, doesn’t it?”
+she said dismally.
@@ -11 +12 @@ Diana looked back at the schoolhouse from the foot of the spruce hill and sighed
-“You’ll be back again next winter, but I suppose I’ve left the dear old school for ever—if I have good luck, that is.”
+“You’ll be back again next winter, but I suppose I’ve left the dear old school forever—if I have good luck, that is.”
@@ -36 +37 @@ But still I wish it wasn’t thirteen.”
-“I do wish I were going in with you,” said Diana.
+“I do wish I was going in with you,” said Diana.
@@ -50 +51 @@ It was so kind of your Aunt Josephine to ask me to stay at Beechwood while I’m
-“I’ll be haunting the post-office Wednesday,” vowed Diana.
+“I’ll be haunting the post office Wednesday,” vowed Diana.
@@ -52 +53 @@ It was so kind of your Aunt Josephine to ask me to stay at Beechwood while I’m
-Anne went to town the following Monday and on Wednesday Diana haunted the post-office, as agreed, and got her letter.
+Anne went to town the following Monday and on Wednesday Diana haunted the post office, as agreed, and got her letter.
@@ -73 +74,2 @@ My hands grew cold then and my head fairly whirled around as I picked it up.
-Just one awful moment,—Diana, I felt exactly as I did four years ago when I asked Marilla if I might stay at Green Gables—and then everything cleared up in my mind and my heart began beating again—I forgot to say that it had stopped altogether!—for I knew I could do something with _that_ paper anyhow.
+Just one awful moment—Diana, I felt exactly as I did four years ago when I asked Marilla if I might stay at Green Gables—and then everything cleared up in my mind and my heart began beating again—I forgot to say that it had stopped altogether!
+—for I knew I could do something with _that_ paper anyhow.
@@ -77,3 +79,3 @@ The history was a pretty hard paper and I got dreadfully mixed up in the dates.
-Still, I think I did fairly well to-day.
-But oh, Diana, to-morrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid.
-If I thought the multiplication table would help me any I would recite it from now till to-morrow morning.
+Still, I think I did fairly well today.
+But oh, Diana, tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid.
+If I thought the multiplication table would help me any I would recite it from now till tomorrow morning.
@@ -87,2 +89,2 @@ Sometimes I have wished I was born a boy, but when I see Moody Spurgeon I’m al
-Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boarding-house; she had just discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper.
-When she recovered we went up-town and had an ice-cream.
+Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boardinghouse; she had just discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper.
+When she recovered we went uptown and had an ice cream.
@@ -94 +96 @@ That is true but not especially comforting.
-I think I’d rather it _didn’t_ go on if I failed!
+I think I’d rather it didn’t go on if I failed!
@@ -98 +100 @@ Yours devotedly,
-Anne.
+Anne
@@ -140,2 +142,2 @@ That, she felt, would be a sweet reward indeed for all her hard work and patient
-At the end of the fortnight Anne took to “haunting” the post-office also, in the distracted company of Jane, Ruby and Josie, opening the Charlottetown dailies with shaking hands and cold, sinkaway feelings as bad as any experienced during the Entrance week.
-Charlie and Gilbert were not above doing this too, but Moody Spurgeon stayed resolutely away
+At the end of the fortnight Anne took to “haunting” the post office also, in the distracted company of Jane, Ruby, and Josie, opening the Charlottetown dailies with shaking hands and cold, sinkaway feelings as bad as any experienced during the Entrance week.
+Charlie and Gilbert were not above doing this too, but Moody Spurgeon stayed resolutely away.
@@ -143 +145 @@ Charlie and Gilbert were not above doing this too, but Moody Spurgeon stayed res
-“I haven’t got the grit to go there and look at a paper in cold blood,” he told Anne.
+“I haven’t got the grit to go there and look at a paper in cold blood,”  he told Anne.
@@ -148 +150 @@ Her appetite failed and her interest in Avonlea doings languished.
-Mrs. Lynde wanted to know what else you could expect with a Tory superintendent of education at the head of affairs, and Matthew, noting Anne’s paleness and indifference and the lagging steps that bore her home from the post-office every afternoon, began seriously to wonder if he hadn’t better vote Grit at the next election.
+Mrs. Lynde wanted to know what else you could expect with a Tory superintendent of education at the head of affairs, and Matthew, noting Anne’s paleness and indifference and the lagging steps that bore her home from the post office every afternoon, began seriously to wonder if he hadn’t better vote Grit at the next election.
@@ -151,2 +153,2 @@ But one evening the news came.
-Anne was sitting at her open window, for the time forgetful of the woes of examinations and the cares of the world, as she drank in the beauty of the summer dusk, sweet-scented with flower-breaths from the garden below and sibilant and rustling from the stir of poplars.
-The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of colour looked like that, when she saw Diana come flying down through the firs, over the log bridge, and up the slope, with a fluttering newspaper in her hand.
+Anne was sitting at her open window, for the time forgetful of the woes of examinations and the cares of the world, as she drank in the beauty of the summer dusk, sweet-scented with flower breaths from the garden below and sibilant and rustling from the stir of poplars.
+The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that, when she saw Diana come flying down through the firs, over the log bridge, and up the slope, with a fluttering newspaper in her hand.
@@ -164 +166 @@ Diana flung the paper on the table and herself on Anne’s bed, utterly breathle
-Anne lighted the lamp, oversetting the match-safe and using up half a dozen matches before her shaking hands could accomplish the task.
+Anne lighted the lamp, oversetting the match safe and using up half a dozen matches before her shaking hands could accomplish the task.
@@ -169,2 +171,2 @@ That moment was worth living for.
-“You did just splendidly, Anne,” puffed Diana, recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak, for Anne, starry-eyed and rapt, had not uttered a word.
-“Father brought the paper home from Bright River not ten minutes ago—it came out on the afternoon train, you know, and won’t be here till to-morrow by mail—and when I saw the pass list I just rushed over like a wild thing.
+“You did just splendidly, Anne,” puffed Diana, recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak, for Anne, starry eyed and rapt, had not uttered a word.
+“Father brought the paper home from Bright River not ten minutes ago—it came out on the afternoon train, you know, and won’t be here till tomorrow by mail—and when I saw the pass list I just rushed over like a wild thing.
@@ -172 +174 @@ You’ve all passed, every one of you, Moody Spurgeon and all, although he’s c
-Jane and Ruby did pretty well—they’re half-way up—and so did Charlie.
+Jane and Ruby did pretty well—they’re halfway up—and so did Charlie.
@@ -181 +183 @@ I am pretty near crazy as it is, but you’re as calm and cool as a spring eveni
-I never dreamed of this—yes, I did, too, just once!
+I never dreamed of this—yes, I did too, just once!
@@ -201 +203 @@ You’re a credit to your friends, Anne, that’s what, and we’re all proud of
-That night Anne, who had wound up a delightful evening by a serious little talk with Mrs. Allan at the manse, knelt sweetly by her open window in a great sheen of moonshine and murmured a prayer of gratitude and aspiration that came straight from her heart.
+That night Anne, who had wound up the delightful evening with a serious little talk with Mrs. Allan at the manse, knelt sweetly by her open window in a great sheen of moonshine and murmured a prayer of gratitude and aspiration that came straight from her heart.
diff --git a/chapters/33-XXXIII.-The-Hotel-Concert.utf8 b/chapters/33-XXXIII.-The-Hotel-Concert.utf8
index 293029a..dc50c5f 100644
--- a/chapters/33-XXXIII.-The-Hotel-Concert.utf8
+++ b/chapters/33-XXXIII.-The-Hotel-Concert.utf8
@@ -5,2 +5,2 @@ The Hotel Concert
-They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only twilight—a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear blue cloudless sky.
-A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid lustre into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood; the air was full of sweet summer sounds—sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, far-away voices and laughter.
+They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only twilight—a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless sky.
+A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood; the air was full of sweet summer sounds—sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, faraway voices and laughter.
@@ -13 +13 @@ The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink silk curtains of Anne’s ear
-The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of pale green art muslin.
+The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of pale-green art muslin.
@@ -15,3 +15,3 @@ The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty app
-Miss Stacy’s photograph occupied the place of honour, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers on the bracket under it.
-To-night a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance.
-There was no “mahogany furniture,” but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet-table befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed.
+Miss Stacy’s photograph occupied the place of honor, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers on the bracket under it.
+Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance.
+There was no “mahogany furniture,” but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet table befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed.
@@ -24 +24 @@ As Anne would have said at one time, it was “an epoch in her life,” and she
-Matthew was in the seventh heaven of gratified pride over the honour conferred on his Anne, and Marilla was not far behind, although she would have died rather than admit it, and said she didn’t think it was very proper for a lot of young folks to be gadding over to the hotel without any responsible person with them.
+Matthew was in the seventh heaven of gratified pride over the honor conferred on his Anne and Marilla was not far behind, although she would have died rather than admit it, and said she didn’t think it was very proper for a lot of young folks to be gadding over to the hotel without any responsible person with them.
@@ -26 +26 @@ Matthew was in the seventh heaven of gratified pride over the honour conferred o
-Anne and Diana were to drive over with Jane Andrews and her brother Billy in their double-seated buggy; and several other Avonlea girls and boys were going, too.
+Anne and Diana were to drive over with Jane Andrews and her brother Billy in their double-seated buggy; and several other Avonlea girls and boys were going too.
@@ -39,2 +39,2 @@ Diana was beginning to have a reputation for notable taste in dressing, and her
-She was looking very pretty herself on this particular night in a dress of the lovely wild-rose pink, from which Anne was for ever debarred; but she was not to take any part in the concert, so her appearance was of minor importance.
-All her pains were bestowed upon Anne, who, she vowed, must, for the credit of Avonlea, be dressed and combed and adorned to the queen’s taste.
+She was looking very pretty herself on this particular night in a dress of the lovely wild-rose pink, from which Anne was forever debarred; but she was not to take any part in the concert, so her appearance was of minor importance.
+All her pains were bestowed upon Anne, who, she vowed, must, for the credit of Avonlea, be dressed and combed and adorned to the Queen’s taste.
@@ -43 +43 @@ All her pains were bestowed upon Anne, who, she vowed, must, for the credit of A
-I’m going to braid your hair in two thick braids, and tie them half-way up with big white bows—no, don’t pull out a single curl over your forehead—just have the soft part.
+I’m going to braid your hair in two thick braids, and tie them halfway up with big white bows—no, don’t pull out a single curl over your forehead—just have the soft part.
@@ -51 +51 @@ There was just one on my bush, and I saved it for you.”
-Diana pursed up her lips, put her black head on one side critically, and finally pronounced in favour of the beads, which were thereupon tied around Anne’s slim milk-white throat.
+Diana pursed up her lips, put her black head on one side critically, and finally pronounced in favor of the beads, which were thereupon tied around Anne’s slim milk-white throat.
@@ -81 +81 @@ Mind you keep your skirt clear of the wheel, Anne, and put your warm jacket on.
-Then Marilla stalked down-stairs, thinking proudly how sweet Anne looked, with that
+Then Marilla stalked downstairs, thinking proudly how sweet Anne looked, with that
@@ -93 +93 @@ Look at the moonlight.”
-“I’m so glad my window looks east into the sun-rising,” said Anne, going over to Diana.
+“I’m so glad my window looks east into the sun rising,” said Anne, going over to Diana.
@@ -99 +99 @@ I don’t know how I’ll get along without it when I go to town next month.”
-“Don’t speak of your going away to-night,” begged Diana.
+“Don’t speak of your going away tonight,” begged Diana.
@@ -112 +112 @@ Laura Spencer is going to give a comic recitation, but I’d rather make people
-“They won’t dream of encoring me,” scoffed Anne, who was not without her own secret hopes that they would, and already visioned herself telling Matthew all about it at the next morning’s breakfast-table.
+“They won’t dream of encoring me,” scoffed Anne, who was not without her own secret hopes that they would, and already visioned herself telling Matthew all about it at the next morning’s breakfast table.
@@ -124 +124 @@ It was a night for enjoyment.
-The road was full of buggies, all bound for the hotel, and laughter, silver-clear, echoed and re-echoed along it.
+The road was full of buggies, all bound for the hotel, and laughter, silver clear, echoed and reechoed along it.
@@ -126 +126 @@ When they reached the hotel it was a blaze of light from top to bottom.
-They were met by the ladies of the concert committee, one of whom took Anne off to the performers’ dressing-room, which was filled with the members of a Charlottetown Symphony Club, among whom Anne felt suddenly shy and frightened and countrified.
+They were met by the ladies of the concert committee, one of whom took Anne off to the performers’ dressing room which was filled with the members of a Charlottetown Symphony Club, among whom Anne felt suddenly shy and frightened and countrified.
@@ -129 +129 @@ What were her pearl beads compared to the diamonds of the big, handsome lady nea
-And how poor her one wee white rose must look beside all the hot-house flowers the others wore!
+And how poor her one wee white rose must look beside all the hothouse flowers the others wore!
@@ -136,3 +136,3 @@ She wished she were sitting down in the audience with Diana and Jane, who seemed
-She was wedged in between a stout lady in pink silk and a tall, scornful looking girl in a white lace dress.
-The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbour about the “country bumpkins” and “rustic belles” in the audience, languidly anticipating “such fun” from the displays of local talent on the programme.
-Anne believed that she would hate that white lace girl to the end of life.
+She was wedged in between a stout lady in pink silk and a tall, scornful-looking girl in a white-lace dress.
+The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the “country bumpkins”  and “rustic belles” in the audience, languidly anticipating “such fun”  from the displays of local talent on the program.
+Anne believed that she would hate that white-lace girl to the end of life.
@@ -142 +142 @@ She was a lithe, dark-eyed woman in a wonderful gown of shimmering gray stuff li
-She had a marvellously flexible voice and wonderful power of expression; the audience went wild over her selection.
+She had a marvelously flexible voice and wonderful power of expression; the audience went wild over her selection.
@@ -149 +149 @@ At this unpropitious moment her name was called.
-Somehow, Anne—who did not notice the rather guilty little start of surprise the white lace girl gave, and would not have understood the subtle compliment implied therein if she had—got on her feet, and moved dizzily out to the front.
+Somehow Anne—who did not notice the rather guilty little start of surprise the white-lace girl gave, and would not have understood the subtle compliment implied therein if she had—got on her feet, and moved dizzily out to the front.
@@ -155 +155 @@ Everything was so strange, so brilliant, so bewildering—the rows of ladies in
-Very different this from the plain benches at the Debating Club, filled with the homely, sympathetic faces of friends and neighbours.
+Very different this from the plain benches at the Debating Club, filled with the homely, sympathetic faces of friends and neighbors.
@@ -157 +157 @@ These people, she thought, would be merciless critics.
-Perhaps, like the white lace girl, they anticipated amusement from her “rustic” efforts.
+Perhaps, like the white-lace girl, they anticipated amusement from her “rustic” efforts.
@@ -183 +183 @@ He said they would encore me.”
-Smiling, blushing, limpid-eyed, Anne tripped back and gave a quaint, funny little selection that captivated her audience still further.
+Smiling, blushing, limpid eyed, Anne tripped back and gave a quaint, funny little selection that captivated her audience still further.
@@ -188,2 +188,2 @@ The professional elocutionist, Mrs. Evans, came and chatted with her, telling he
-Even the white lace girl paid her a languid little compliment.
-They had supper in the big, beautifully decorated dining-room; Diana and Jane were invited to partake of this, also, since they had come with Anne, but Billy was nowhere to be found, having decamped in mortal fear of some such invitation.
+Even the white-lace girl paid her a languid little compliment.
+They had supper in the big, beautifully decorated dining room; Diana and Jane were invited to partake of this, also, since they had come with Anne, but Billy was nowhere to be found, having decamped in mortal fear of some such invitation.
@@ -197 +197 @@ How great and still and wonderful everything was, with the murmur of the sea sou
-“I just wish I was a rich American and could spend my summer at a hotel and wear jewels and low-necked dresses and have ice-cream and chicken salad every blessed day.
+“I just wish I was a rich American and could spend my summer at a hotel and wear jewels and low-necked dresses and have ice cream and chicken salad every blessed day.
@@ -200 +200 @@ Anne, your recitation was simply great, although I thought at first you were nev
-I think it was better than Mrs. Evans’.”
+I think it was better than Mrs. Evans’s.”
@@ -203 +203 @@ I think it was better than Mrs. Evans’.”
-It couldn’t be better than Mrs. Evans’, you know, for she is a professional, and I’m only a schoolgirl, with a little knack of reciting.
+It couldn’t be better than Mrs. Evans’s, you know, for she is a professional, and I’m only a schoolgirl, with a little knack of reciting.
@@ -219 +219,2 @@ But what does Titian hair mean?”
-“_Did_ you see all the diamonds those ladies wore?” sighed Jane.
+“_Did_ you see all the diamonds those ladies wore?”
+sighed Jane.
@@ -223 +224 @@ Wouldn’t you just love to be rich, girls?”
-“We _are_ rich,” said Anne stanchly.
+“We _are_ rich,” said Anne staunchly.
@@ -228 +229 @@ You wouldn’t change into any of those women if you could.
-Would you want to be that white lace girl and wear a sour look all your life, as if you’d been born turning up your nose at the world?
+Would you want to be that white-lace girl and wear a sour look all your life, as if you’d been born turning up your nose at the world?
@@ -237 +238 @@ You _know_ you wouldn’t, Jane Andrews!”
-“Well, I don’t want to be any one but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,” declared Anne.
+“Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,” declared Anne.
diff --git "a/chapters/34-XXXIV.-A-Queen\342\200\231s-Girl.utf8" "b/chapters/34-XXXIV.-A-Queen\342\200\231s-Girl.utf8"
index ed12dd6..7d47b29 100644
--- "a/chapters/34-XXXIV.-A-Queen\342\200\231s-Girl.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/34-XXXIV.-A-Queen\342\200\231s-Girl.utf8"
@@ -11 +11 @@ I got Mrs. Allan to help me pick it in town last week, and we’ll get Emily Gil
-Emily has got taste, and her fits aren’t to be equalled.”
+Emily has got taste, and her fits aren’t to be equaled.”
@@ -22 +22 @@ Something in the memory brought tears to Marilla’s own eyes.
-“I declare, my recitation has made you cry, Marilla,” said Anne gaily, stooping over Marilla’s chair to drop a butterfly kiss on that lady’s cheek.
+“I declare, my recitation has made you cry, Marilla,” said Anne gaily stooping over Marilla’s chair to drop a butterfly kiss on that lady’s cheek.
@@ -25 +25 @@ Something in the memory brought tears to Marilla’s own eyes.
-“No, I wasn’t crying over your piece,” said Marilla, who would have scorned to be betrayed into such weakness by any “poetry stuff.”
+“No, I wasn’t crying over your piece,” said Marilla, who would have scorned to be betrayed into such weakness by any poetry stuff.
@@ -28 +28 @@ And I was wishing you could have stayed a little girl, even with all your queer
-You’re grown up now and you’re going away; and you look so tall and stylish and so—so—different altogether in that dress—as if you didn’t belong in Avonlea at all—and I just got lonesome thinking it all over.”
+You’ve grown up now and you’re going away; and you look so tall and stylish and so—so—different altogether in that dress—as if you didn’t belong in Avonlea at all—and I just got lonesome thinking it all over.”
@@ -51,2 +51,2 @@ The day finally came when Anne must go to town.
-She and Matthew drove in one fine September morning, after a tearful parting with Diana and an untearful, practical one—on Marilla’s side at least—with Marilla.
-But when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins, where she contrived to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into unnecessary work and kept at it all day long with the bitterest kind of a heartache—the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.
+She and Matthew drove in one fine September morning, after a tearful parting with Diana and an untearful practical one—on Marilla’s side at least—with Marilla.
+But when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins, where she contrived to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into unnecessary work and kept at it all day long with the bitterest kind of heartache—the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.
@@ -57 +57 @@ That first day passed pleasantly enough in a whirl of excitement, meeting all th
-Anne intended taking up the Second Year work, being advised to do so by Miss Stacy; Gilbert Blythe elected to do the same.
+Anne intended taking up the Second Year work being advised to do so by Miss Stacy; Gilbert Blythe elected to do the same.
@@ -74 +74 @@ I like the look of that girl with the brown eyes and the crimson waist.
-She looks vivid and red-rosy; and there’s that pale, fair one gazing out of the window.
+She looks vivid and red-rosy; there’s that pale, fair one gazing out of the window.
@@ -87 +87 @@ Anne will not meet with any objectionable persons under her roof.
-The table is good, and the house is near the Academy, in a quiet neighbourhood.”
+The table is good, and the house is near the Academy, in a quiet neighborhood.”
@@ -89,2 +89,2 @@ The table is good, and the house is near the Academy, in a quiet neighbourhood.
-All this might be quite true, and, indeed, proved to be so, but it did not materially help Anne in the first agony of homesickness that seized upon her.
-She looked dismally about her narrow little room, with its dull-papered, pictureless walls, its small iron bedstead and empty bookcase; and a horrible choke came into her throat as she thought of her own white room at Green Gables, where she would have the pleasant consciousness of a great green still outdoors, of sweet peas growing in the garden, and moonlight falling on the orchard, of the brook below the slope and the spruce boughs tossing in the night wind beyond it, of a vast starry sky, and the light from Diana’s window shining out through the gap in the trees.
+All this might be quite true, and indeed, proved to be so, but it did not materially help Anne in the first agony of homesickness that seized upon her.
+She looked dismally about her narrow little room, with its dull-papered, pictureless walls, its small iron bedstead and empty book-case; and a horrible choke came into her throat as she thought of her own white room at Green Gables, where she would have the pleasant consciousness of a great green still outdoors, of sweet peas growing in the garden, and moonlight falling on the orchard, of the brook below the slope and the spruce boughs tossing in the night wind beyond it, of a vast starry sky, and the light from Diana’s window shining out through the gap in the trees.
@@ -116 +116 @@ You shouldn’t cry, Anne; it isn’t becoming, for your nose and eyes get red,
-I’d a perfectly scrumptious time in the Academy to-day.
+I’d a perfectly scrumptious time in the Academy today.
@@ -118 +118 @@ Our French professor is simply a duck.
-His moustache would give you kerwollops of the heart.
+His moustache would give you kerwollowps of the heart.
@@ -121 +121 @@ I’m literally starving.
-Ah, I guessed likely Marilla’d load you up with cake.
+Ah, I guessed likely Marilla ‘d load you up with cake.
@@ -125 +125 @@ He boards same place as I do, and he’s a sport.
-He noticed you in class to-day, and asked me who the red-headed girl was.
+He noticed you in class today, and asked me who the red-headed girl was.
@@ -128 +128 @@ I told him you were an orphan that the Cuthberts had adopted, and nobody knew ve
-Anne was wondering if, after all, solitude and tears were not more satisfactory than Josie Pye’s companionship when Jane and Ruby appeared, each with an inch of Queen’s colour ribbon—purple and scarlet—pinned proudly to her coat.
+Anne was wondering if, after all, solitude and tears were not more satisfactory than Josie Pye’s companionship when Jane and Ruby appeared, each with an inch of Queen’s color ribbon—purple and scarlet—pinned proudly to her coat.
@@ -132,2 +132,2 @@ As Josie was not “speaking” to Jane just then she had to subside into compar
-I ought to be home studying my Virgil—that horrid old professor gave us twenty lines to start in on to-morrow.
-But I simply couldn’t settle down to study to-night.
+I ought to be home studying my Virgil—that horrid old professor gave us twenty lines to start in on tomorrow.
+But I simply couldn’t settle down to study tonight.
@@ -141 +141 @@ Thank you.
-It has the real Avonlea flavour.”
+It has the real Avonlea flavor.”
@@ -148 +148 @@ Anne blushed and admitted she was thinking of it.
-The word came to-day.
+The word came today.
@@ -150 +150 @@ Frank Stockley told me—his uncle is one of the board of governors, you know.
-It will be announced in the Academy to-morrow.”
+It will be announced in the Academy tomorrow.”
@@ -154,3 +154,3 @@ Anne felt her heart beat more quickly, and the horizons of her ambition shifted
-Before Josie had told the news Anne’s highest pinnacle of aspiration had been a teacher’s provincial license, Class First, at the end of the year, and perhaps the medal!
-But now in one moment Anne saw herself winning the Avery scholarship, taking an Arts course at Redmond College, and graduating in a gown and mortar-board, all before the echo of Josie’s words had died away.
-For the Avery scholarship was in English, and Anne felt that here her foot was on her native heath.
+Before Josie had told the news Anne’s highest pinnacle of aspiration had been a teacher’s provincial license, First Class, at the end of the year, and perhaps the medal!
+But now in one moment Anne saw herself winning the Avery scholarship, taking an Arts course at Redmond College, and graduating in a gown and mortar board, before the echo of Josie’s words had died away.
+For the Avery scholarship was in English, and Anne felt that here her foot was on native heath.
diff --git "a/chapters/35-XXXV-The-Winter-at-Queen\342\200\231s.utf8" "b/chapters/35-XXXV-The-Winter-at-Queen\342\200\231s.utf8"
index 3b0e827..6c24b86 100644
--- "a/chapters/35-XXXV-The-Winter-at-Queen\342\200\231s.utf8"
+++ "b/chapters/35-XXXV-The-Winter-at-Queen\342\200\231s.utf8"
@@ -3 +3 @@ The Winter at Queen’s
-Anne’s homesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her week-end visits home.
+Anne’s homesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her weekend visits home.
@@ -6 +6 @@ Diana and several other Avonlea young folks were generally on hand to meet them
-Anne thought those Friday evening gipsyings over the autumnal hills in the crisp golden air, with the homelights of Avonlea twinkling beyond, were the best and dearest hours in the whole week.
+Anne thought those Friday evening gypsyings over the autumnal hills in the crisp golden air, with the homelights of Avonlea twinkling beyond, were the best and dearest hours in the whole week.
@@ -13 +13 @@ She laughed a great deal, was cheerful and good-tempered, and enjoyed the pleasa
-“But I shouldn’t think she was the sort of girl Gilbert would like,” whispered Jane to Anne.
+“But I shouldn’t think she was the sort of girl Gilbert would like,”  whispered Jane to Anne.
@@ -37,3 +37,3 @@ The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny l
-Ruby Gillis was the handsomest girl of the year at the Academy; in the Second Year classes Stella Maynard carried off the palm for beauty, with a small but critical minority in favour of Anne Shirley.
-Ethel Marr was admitted by all competent judges to have the most stylish modes of hair-dressing, and Jane Andrews—plain, plodding, conscientious Jane—carried off the honours in the domestic science course.
-Even Josie Pye attained a certain pre-eminence as the sharpest-tongued young lady in attendance at Queen’s.
+Ruby Gillis was the handsomest girl of the year at the Academy; in the Second Year classes Stella Maynard carried off the palm for beauty, with small but critical minority in favor of Anne Shirley.
+Ethel Marr was admitted by all competent judges to have the most stylish modes of hair-dressing, and Jane Andrews—plain, plodding, conscientious Jane—carried off the honors in the domestic science course.
+Even Josie Pye attained a certain preeminence as the sharpest-tongued young lady in attendance at Queen’s.
@@ -49,2 +49,2 @@ Anne spent many of her spare hours at Beechwood and generally ate her Sunday din
-The latter was, as she admitted, growing old, but her black eyes were not dim nor the vigour of her tongue in the least abated.
-But she never sharpened the latter on Anne, who continued to be a prime favourite with the critical old lady.
+The latter was, as she admitted, growing old, but her black eyes were not dim nor the vigor of her tongue in the least abated.
+But she never sharpened the latter on Anne, who continued to be a prime favorite with the critical old lady.
@@ -67 +67 @@ Jane and Ruby and Josie, who had dropped in, did not take this view of it.
-To them the coming examinations were constantly very important indeed—far more important than chestnut buds or May-time hazes.
+To them the coming examinations were constantly very important indeed—far more important than chestnut buds or Maytime hazes.
@@ -79 +79 @@ My father can afford to send me.
-Anne, Frank Stockley says that professor Tremaine said Gilbert Blythe was sure to get the medal and that Emily Clay would likely win the Avery scholarship.”
+Anne, Frank Stockley says that Professor Tremaine said Gilbert Blythe was sure to get the medal and that Emily Clay would likely win the Avery scholarship.”
@@ -81 +81 @@ Anne, Frank Stockley says that professor Tremaine said Gilbert Blythe was sure t
-“That may make me feel badly to-morrow, Josie,” laughed Anne, “but just now I honestly feel that as long as I know the violets are coming out all purple down in the hollow below Green Gables and that little ferns are poking their heads up in Lovers’ Lane, it’s not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not.
+“That may make me feel badly tomorrow, Josie,” laughed Anne, “but just now I honestly feel that as long as I know the violets are coming out all purple down in the hollow below Green Gables and that little ferns are poking their heads up in Lovers’ Lane, it’s not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not.
@@ -85 +85 @@ Girls, don’t talk about exams!
-Look at that arch of pale green sky over those houses and picture to yourselves what it must look like over the purply-dark beechwoods back of Avonlea.”
+Look at that arch of pale green sky over those houses and picture to yourself what it must look like over the purply-dark beech-woods back of Avonlea.”
@@ -87 +87,2 @@ Look at that arch of pale green sky over those houses and picture to yourselves
-“What are you going to wear for commencement, Jane?” asked Ruby practically.
+“What are you going to wear for commencement, Jane?”
+asked Ruby practically.
diff --git a/chapters/36-XXXVI.-The-Glory-and-the-Dream.utf8 b/chapters/36-XXXVI.-The-Glory-and-the-Dream.utf8
index 858d3de..16b6f35 100644
--- a/chapters/36-XXXVI.-The-Glory-and-the-Dream.utf8
+++ b/chapters/36-XXXVI.-The-Glory-and-the-Dream.utf8
@@ -11 +11 @@ Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem, just then, to be anything worth bei
-“I have no hope of the Avery,” said Anne.
+“I have not hope of the Avery,” said Anne.
@@ -15 +15 @@ I haven’t the moral courage.
-I’m going straight to the girls’ dressing-room.
+I’m going straight to the girls’ dressing room.
@@ -22 +22 @@ Jane promised solemnly; but, as it happened, there was no necessity for such a p
-When they went up the entrance steps of Queen’s they found the hall full of boys who were carrying Gilbert Blythe around on their shoulders and yelling at the tops of their voices, “Hurrah for Blythe, Medallist!”
+When they went up the entrance steps of Queen’s they found the hall full of boys who were carrying Gilbert Blythe around on their shoulders and yelling at the tops of their voices, “Hurrah for Blythe, Medalist!”
@@ -34,2 +34,2 @@ Somebody called out:
-“Oh, Anne,” gasped Jane, as they fled to the girls’ dressing-room amid hearty cheers.
-“Oh, Anne, I’m so proud!
+“Oh, Anne,” gasped Jane, as they fled to the girls’ dressing room amid hearty cheers.
+“Oh, Anne I’m so proud!
@@ -38 +38 @@ Isn’t it splendid?”
-And then the girls were around them and Anne was the centre of a laughing, congratulating group.
+And then the girls were around them and Anne was the center of a laughing, congratulating group.
@@ -63 +63 @@ She had not been home since April and she felt that she could not wait another d
-The apple-blossoms were out and the world was fresh and young.
+The apple blossoms were out and the world was fresh and young.
@@ -83 +83 @@ I’m tired, I think—tired of being studious and ambitious.
-I mean to spend at least two hours to-morrow lying out in the orchard grass, thinking of absolutely nothing.”
+I mean to spend at least two hours tomorrow lying out in the orchard grass, thinking of absolutely nothing.”
@@ -91 +91 @@ Doesn’t it seem wonderful?
-I’ll have a brand-new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three glorious, golden months of vacation.
+I’ll have a brand new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three glorious, golden months of vacation.
@@ -104 +104 @@ What would she do without their inspiring rivalry?
-Would not work, even at a co-educational college with a real degree in prospect, be rather flat without her friend the enemy?
+Would not work, even at a coeducational college with a real degree in prospect, be rather flat without her friend the enemy?
@@ -128 +128 @@ Marilla smiled affectionately at her girl.
-I’ve a pain so often now—behind my eyes.
+I’ve got a pain so often now—behind my eyes.
@@ -138 +138 @@ Speaking of Rachel reminds me—did you hear anything about the Abbey Bank latel
-“I heard that it was shaky,” answered Anne.
+“I heard it was shaky,” answered Anne.
@@ -157 +157 @@ Anne spent some of its rich hours in the orchard; she went to the Dryad’s Bubb
-The woods were all gloried through with sunset and the warm splendour of it streamed down through the hill gaps in the west.
+The woods were all gloried through with sunset and the warm splendor of it streamed down through the hill gaps in the west.
@@ -160 +160 @@ Matthew walked slowly with bent head; Anne, tall and erect, suited her springing
-“You’ve been working too hard to-day, Matthew,” she said reproachfully.
+“You’ve been working too hard today, Matthew,” she said reproachfully.
diff --git a/chapters/37-XXXVII.-The-Reaper-Whose-Name-Is-Death.utf8 b/chapters/37-XXXVII.-The-Reaper-Whose-Name-Is-Death.utf8
index 7abd551..c63bea0 100644
--- a/chapters/37-XXXVII.-The-Reaper-Whose-Name-Is-Death.utf8
+++ b/chapters/37-XXXVII.-The-Reaper-Whose-Name-Is-Death.utf8
@@ -7 +7 @@ It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word.
-Anne came through the hall, her hands full of white narcissus,—it was long before Anne could love the sight or odour of white narcissus again,—in time to hear her and to see Matthew standing in the porch doorway, a folded paper in his hand, and his face strangely drawn and gray.
+Anne came through the hall, her hands full of white narcissus,—it was long before Anne could love the sight or odor of white narcissus again,—in time to hear her and to see Matthew standing in the porch doorway, a folded paper in his hand, and his face strangely drawn and gray.
@@ -15 +15 @@ He’s at the barn.”
-Martin, the hired man, who had just driven home from the post-office, started at once for the doctor, calling at Orchard Slope on his way to send Mr. and Mrs. Barry over.
+Martin, the hired man, who had just driven home from the post office, started at once for the doctor, calling at Orchard Slope on his way to send Mr. and Mrs. Barry over.
@@ -37 +37 @@ It contained an account of the failure of the Abbey Bank.
-The news spread quickly through Avonlea, and all day friends and neighbours thronged Green Gables and came and went on errands of kindness for the dead and living.
+The news spread quickly through Avonlea, and all day friends and neighbors thronged Green Gables and came and went on errands of kindness for the dead and living.
@@ -41 +41 @@ When the calm night came softly down over Green Gables the old house was hushed
-In the parlour lay Matthew Cuthbert in his coffin, his long gray hair framing his placid face on which there was a little kindly smile as if he but slept, dreaming pleasant dreams.
+In the parlor lay Matthew Cuthbert in his coffin, his long gray hair framing his placid face on which there was a little kindly smile as if he but slept, dreaming pleasant dreams.
@@ -49 +49 @@ Diana, going to the east gable, where Anne was standing at her window, said gent
-“Anne dear, would you like to have me sleep with you to-night?”
+“Anne dear, would you like to have me sleep with you tonight?”
@@ -53 +53 @@ Anne looked earnestly into her friend’s face.
-“I think you won’t misunderstand me when I say that I want to be alone.
+“I think you won’t misunderstand me when I say I want to be alone.
@@ -57 +57 @@ I want to be quite silent and quiet and try to realize it.
-I _can’t_ realize it.
+I can’t realize it.
@@ -64,2 +64,2 @@ But she went away kindly, leaving Anne alone to keep her first vigil with sorrow
-Anne hoped that tears would come in solitude.
-It seemed to her a terrible thing that she could not shed a tear for Matthew, whom she had loved so much and who had been so kind to her, Matthew, who had walked with her last evening at sunset and was now lying in the dim room below with that awful peace on his brow.
+Anne hoped that the tears would come in solitude.
+It seemed to her a terrible thing that she could not shed a tear for Matthew, whom she had loved so much and who had been so kind to her, Matthew who had walked with her last evening at sunset and was now lying in the dim room below with that awful peace on his brow.
@@ -76 +76 @@ It—it—isn’t right to cry so.
-I knew that to-day, but I couldn’t help it then.
+I knew that today, but I couldn’t help it then.
@@ -99 +99 @@ She felt something like shame and remorse when she discovered that the sunrises
-To-day Diana said something funny and I found myself laughing.
+Today Diana said something funny and I found myself laughing.
@@ -106 +106 @@ I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that natu
-But I understand your feeling.
+But I can understand your feeling.
@@ -108 +108 @@ I think we all experience the same thing.
-We resent the thought that anything can please us when some one we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”
+We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”
@@ -110,2 +110,2 @@ We resent the thought that anything can please us when some one we love is no lo
-“I was down to the graveyard to plant a rose-bush on Matthew’s grave this afternoon,” said Anne dreamily.
-“I took a slip of the little white Scotch rose-bush his mother brought out from Scotland long ago; Matthew always liked those roses the best—they were so small and sweet on their thorny stems.
+“I was down to the graveyard to plant a rosebush on Matthew’s grave this afternoon,” said Anne dreamily.
+“I took a slip of the little white Scotch rosebush his mother brought out from Scotland long ago; Matthew always liked those roses the best—they were so small and sweet on their thorny stems.
@@ -118 +118 @@ Marilla is all alone and she gets lonely at twilight.”
-“She will be lonelier still, I fear, when you go away again to college,” said Mrs. Allan.
+“She will be lonelier still, I fear, when you go away again to college,”  said Mrs. Allan.
@@ -120 +120 @@ Marilla is all alone and she gets lonely at twilight.”
-Anne did not reply; she said good night and went slowly back to Green Gables.
+Anne did not reply; she said good night and went slowly back to green Gables.
@@ -124,2 +124,2 @@ The door was open behind them, held back by a big pink conch shell with hints of
-Anne gathered some sprays of pale yellow honeysuckle and put them in her hair.
-She liked the delicious hint of fragrance, as of some aerial benediction, above her every time she moved.
+Anne gathered some sprays of pale-yellow honeysuckle and put them in her hair.
+She liked the delicious hint of fragrance, as some aerial benediction, above her every time she moved.
@@ -128 +128 @@ She liked the delicious hint of fragrance, as of some aerial benediction, above
-“He says that the specialist will be in town to-morrow and he insists that I must go in and have my eyes examined.
+“He says that the specialist will be in town tomorrow and he insists that I must go in and have my eyes examined.
@@ -136 +136 @@ Diana will come over for company for me.
-I shall attend to the ironing and baking beautifully—you needn’t fear that I’ll starch the handkerchiefs or flavour the cake with liniment.”
+I shall attend to the ironing and baking beautifully—you needn’t fear that I’ll starch the handkerchiefs or flavor the cake with liniment.”
@@ -166 +166 @@ Jane and Ruby are going to teach and they have both got schools—Jane at Newbri
-“What a nice-looking young fellow he is,” said Marilla absently.
+“What a nice-looking fellow he is,” said Marilla absently.
diff --git a/chapters/38-XXXVIII.-The-Bend-in-the-Road.utf8 b/chapters/38-XXXVIII.-The-Bend-in-the-Road.utf8
index 9b82860..cf131b3 100644
--- a/chapters/38-XXXVIII.-The-Bend-in-the-Road.utf8
+++ b/chapters/38-XXXVIII.-The-Bend-in-the-Road.utf8
@@ -1 +1 @@
-The Bend in the Road
+The Bend in the road
@@ -20 +20 @@ He says that if I give up all reading and sewing entirely and any kind of work t
-But if I don’t he says I’ll certainly be stone blind in six months.
+But if I don’t he says I’ll certainly be stone-blind in six months.
@@ -49 +49 @@ She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend—as duty
-One afternoon a few days later Marilla came slowly in from the yard where she had been talking to a caller—a man whom Anne knew by sight as John Sadler from Carmody.
+One afternoon a few days later Marilla came slowly in from the front yard where she had been talking to a caller—a man whom Anne knew by sight as Sadler from Carmody.
@@ -114 +114 @@ You sha’n’t be dull or lonesome.
-And we’ll be real cosy and happy here together, you and I.”
+And we’ll be real cozy and happy here together, you and I.”
@@ -167 +167 @@ She came up one evening and found Anne and Marilla sitting at the front door in
-They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odour of mint filled the dewy air.
+They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odor of mint filled the dewy air.
@@ -171 +171 @@ Mrs. Rachel deposited her substantial person upon the stone bench by the door, b
-“I declare I’m glad to sit down.
+“I declare I’m getting glad to sit down.
@@ -190 +190 @@ Oh, I’m not going to overdo things.
-As ‘Josiah Allen’s wife’ says, I shall be ‘mejum.’
+As ‘Josiah Allen’s wife,’ says, I shall be ‘mejum’.
@@ -204 +204 @@ He said he was going to teach at White Sands.
-Of course he gave up the school just to oblige you, because he knew how much you wanted to stay with Marilla, and I must say I think it was real kind and thoughtful in him, that’s what.
+Of course he knew how much you wanted to stay with Marilla, and I must say I think it was real kind and thoughtful in him, that’s what.
@@ -218 +218 @@ Josie was the last of them, and a good thing she was, that’s what.
-There’s been some Pye or other going to Avonlea school for the last twenty years, and I guess their mission in life was to keep school-teachers reminded that earth isn’t their home.
+There’s been some Pye or other going to Avonlea school for the last twenty years, and I guess their mission in life was to keep school teachers reminded that earth isn’t their home.
@@ -222 +222 @@ What does all that winking and blinking at the Barry gable mean?”
-“Diana is signalling for me to go over,” laughed Anne.
+“Diana is signaling for me to go over,” laughed Anne.
@@ -239 +239 @@ That’s what.”
-Anne went to the little Avonlea graveyard the next evening to put fresh flowers on Matthew’s grave and water the Scotch rose-bush.
+Anne went to the little Avonlea graveyard the next evening to put fresh flowers on Matthew’s grave and water the Scotch rosebush.
@@ -250 +250 @@ The beauty of it all thrilled Anne’s heart, and she gratefully opened the gate
-Half-way down the hill a tall lad came whistling out of a gate before the Blythe homestead.
+Halfway down the hill a tall lad came whistling out of a gate before the Blythe homestead.
@@ -272 +272 @@ I’ve been—I may as well make a complete confession—I’ve been sorry ever
-You’ve thwarted destiny long enough.
+You’ve thwarted destiny enough.
@@ -285 +285 @@ Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen.
-“I didn’t think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you’d stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him,” said Marilla, with a dry smile.
+“I didn’t think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you’d stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him,” said Marilla with a dry smile.
@@ -288 +288 @@ Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen.
-But we have decided that it will be much more sensible to be good friends in future.
+But we have decided that it will be much more sensible to be good friends in the future.
@@ -298 +298 @@ Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming h
-The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.
+The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.
@@ -301,3 +301 @@ And there was always the bend in the road!
-“‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly.
-
-The End.
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+“‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly.
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