They were an elite, living at the center of the world's greatest power, and one of their most cherished privileges was the cultivation of the life of the mind.
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- Author's profession: Critic
- Nationality: american
- Born: November 7, 1943
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One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.
L. M. Montgomery