Anne of Green Gables, Chapter Fifteen

In which Anne begins to attend school, where the last of the major players is introduced with the most dreadful insult, and Anne decides that Canadian public education has failed her.



We've got an especially good illustration this time around, of Anne about to full on break a hunk of slate over Gilbert's head because he called her "Carrots." YES.

12:32 - "Thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head." Could the
word "Gilbert" really not fit on the next line, it had to be split in the middle like that?

I mean, yes, I know that classroom slates are real thin and it's not like she dropped a paving stone on his skull or anything but still. Sweet. You can tell these two are meant to be together. What, that's no spoiler or nothing. Just look at that picture up there. If that's not true love, I don't know what is.

Oh, and hey, I just realized a missed an illustration back in chapters 9-11, so you might want to go on back and take a look-see.


If you would like to read along, the text can be found at Project Gutenberg. No reading ahead, though!