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A pale little thing, with s over her shoulders, ht, be Annetta Bell, whose parents had fore school district, but, by reason of hauling their house fifty yards north of its old site were now in Avonlea Three pallid little girls crowded into one seat were certainly Cottons; and there was no doubt that the s brown curls and hazel eyes, as casting coquettish looks at Jack Gills over the edge of her Testaerson, whose father had recently randirl in a back seat, who seemed to have too many feet and hands, Anne could not place at all, but later on discovered that her name was Barbara Shaw and that she had come to live with an Avonlea aunt She was also to find that if Barbara everover her own or somebody else's feet the Avonlea scholars wrote the unusual fact up on the porch wall to commemorate it

But when Anne's eyesher own, a queer little thrill went over her, as if she had found her genius She knew this ht for once when she prophesied that he would be unlike the Avonlea children More than that, Anne realized that he was unlike other children anywhere, and that there was a soul subtly akin to her own gazing at her out of the very dark blue eyes that atching her so intently

She knew Paul was ten but he looked no ht He had the most beautiful little face she had ever seen in a childfeatures of exquisite delicacy and refinement, framed in a halo of chestnut curls

His , the cri into finely finished little corners that narrowly escaped being dirave, meditative expression, as if his spirit was much older than his body; but when Anne s s, as if some la him from top to toe Best of all, it was involuntary, born of no external effort orof a hidden personality, rare and fine and sweet