Chapter 25
Matthew secretly arranges, with Mrs. Lynde's help, to give Anne a brown gloria dress with puffed sleeves for Christmas. 'Oh, Matthew, they're perfectly lovely!'
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From Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Anne's longing for puffed sleeves dramatizes her hunger to belong and to be ordinary-pretty—a yearning Matthew uniquely understands.
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