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This passage describes the long Avenue of apple-trees that the little girl is so amazed by that she falls silent. Lucy Maud Montgomery turns the trees into a cathedral with a rose window, which is a way of saying the place feels holy to the child. The vocabulary words AVENUE, BLOOM, SUNSET, and TREES all appear in this passage.
The “Avenue,” so called by the Newbridge people, was a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over by huge wide-spreading apple-trees, planted years ago by an eccentric old...
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Narration Prompt
Tell in your own words what happens in this chapter: how Matthew Cuthbert drives to Bright River station, what he finds when he gets there, what the little girl says on the long ride home, and why he decides not to tell her about the mistake.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Matthew Cuthbert is shy around little girls? Find one or two things he does or thinks at the station.
- How do you know that the little girl has been waiting for somebody to come for her? What does the station-master tell Matthew about her?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Shining or full of light.
Item 2
A length of hair woven together in three strands.
Item 3
A line of railway cars pulled by an engine along a track.
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