They didn't want me at the asylum, either; they said they were over-crowded as it was.

But they had to take me and I was there four months until Mrs.Spencer came." Anne finished up with another sigh, of relief this time.

Evidently she did not like talking about her experiences in a world that had not wanted her.
"Did you ever go to school ?" demanded Marilla, turning the sorrel mare down the shore road.
"Not a great deal.

I went a little the last year I stayed with Mrs.
Thomas.

When I went up river we were so far from a school that I couldn't walk it in winter and there was a vacation in summer, so I could only go in the spring and fall.