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Book: The Complete Emily Starr Trilogy: Emily of New Moon / Emily Climbs . Emily's Quest
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  1. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    You'll get so tired of Blair Water - you'll know all the people in it - what they are and can be - it'll be like reading a book for the twentieth time.
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  2. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places - if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you.
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  3. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me."
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  4. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    It might be a nice world if nobody ever said a disagreeable thing, but it would be a dangerous one,
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  5. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    My epic," said Emily, diligently devouring plum cake, "is about a very beautiful high-born girl who was stolen away from her real parents when she was a baby and brought up in a woodcutter's hut." "One av the seven original plots in the world," murmured Father Cassidy. "What?" "Nothing. Just a bad habit av thinking aloud. Go on." "She had a lover of high degree but his family did not want him to marry her because she was only a woodcutter's daughter-" "Another of the seven plots - excuse me." " - so they sent him away to the Holy Land on a crusade and word came back that he was killed and then Editha - her name was Editha - went into a convent-" Emily paused for a bite of plum cake and Father Cassidy took up the strain. "And now her lover comes back very much alive, though covered with Paynim scars, and the secret av her birth is discovered through the dying confession av the old nurse and the birthmark on her arm." "How did you know?" gasped Emily in amazement. "Oh, I guessed it - I'm a good guesser."
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  6. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    I climbed the hill of firs and looked down over the fields of mist and silver in the moonlight. The shadows of the ferns and sweet wild grasses along the edge of the woods were like a dance of sprites. Away beyond the harbour, below the moonlight, was a sky of purple and amber where a sunset had been.
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  7. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.
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  8. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    Aunt Elizabeth came in. "Emily, the rock-crystal goblet! Your Grandmother Murray's goblet! And you have broken it!" "No, really. Aunty dear, I didn't. Mr. Greaves - Mr. Mark Delage Greaves did it. He threw it at the stove." "Threw it at the stove!" Aunt Elizabeth was staggered. "Why did he throw it at the stove?" "Because I wouldn't marry him," said Emily. "Marry him! Did you ever see him before?" "Never." Aunt Elizabeth gathered up the fragments of the crystal goblet and went out quite speechless. There was - there must be - something wrong with a girl when a man proposed marriage to her at first meeting. And hurled heirloom goblets at inoffensive stoves.
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  9. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    Note: - One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile - the scornful smile - the detached smile - the entreating smile - the common or garden grin.
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  10. L.M. Montgomery _ The Complete Emily Starr

    My epic," said Emily, diligently devouring plum cake, "is about a very beautiful high-born girl who was stolen away from her real parents when she was a baby and brought up in a woodcutter's hut." "One av the seven original plots in the world," murmured Father Cassidy. "What?" "Nothing. Just a bad habit av thinking aloud. Go on." "She had a lover of high degree but his family did not want him to marry her because she was only a woodcutter's daughter-" "Another of the seven plots - excuse me." " - so they sent him away to the Holy Land on a crusade and word came back that he was killed and then Editha - her name was Editha - went into a convent-" Emily paused for a bite of plum cake and Father Cassidy took up the strain. "And now her lover comes back very much alive, though covered with Paynim scars, and the secret av her birth is discovered through the dying confession av the old nurse and the birthmark on her arm." "How did you know?" gasped Emily in amazement. "Oh, I guessed it - I'm a good guesser.
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