Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting
Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting
She'd have reformed him. You can reform a man; you can't reform a jelly-fish, of course. Your story isn't bad -- it's kind of interesting, I'll admit. But you're too young to write a story that would be worth while. Wait ten years."
Anne made up her mind that the next time she wrote a story she wouldn't ask anybody to criticize it. It was too discouraging. She would not read the story to Gilbert, although she told him about it.
"If it is a success you'll see it when it is published, Gilbert, but if it is a failure nobody shall ever see it."
Marilla knew nothing about the venture. In imagination Anne saw herself reading a story out of a magazine to Marilla, entrapping her into praise of it -- for in imagination all things are possible -- and then triumphantly announcing herself the author.
One day Anne took to the Post Office a long, bulky envelope, addressed, with the delightful
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