As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wil…

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool. ✨ Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). Emily Climbs, p.141, Booklassic
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