"Matthew dreaded all women except Marilla and Mrs. Rachel; he had an uncomfortable feeling that the mysterious creatures were laughing at him." Chapter 2, p.11.
"Like most quiet folks he [Matthew] liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it."
Chapter 2, p.18
"'You don't want me!' she cried. 'You don't want me because I'm not a boy! I might have expected it. Nobody ever did want me. I might have known it was all too beautiful to last.'" Chapter 3, p. 29.
"The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness…. The whole apartment was of a rigidity not to be described in words, but which sent a shiver to the very marrow of.....
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