Lucy maud montgomery emily climbs5/23/2023 It will be easy, of course, to write down the good deeds, but not so easy to record the bad ones. I mean to be as honest about it as I can. I got the idea out of a book, and it appeals to me. "I have decided that I will write down, in this journal, every day, all my good deeds and all my bad ones. So let us take another peep into the yellowed pages of that old Jimmy-book, written long ago in the look-out of New Moon. Besides, when one has material ready to hand, why not use it? Emily's diary, with all its youthful crudities and italics, really gives a better interpretation of her and of her imaginative and introspective mind, in that, her fourteenth spring, than any biographer, however sympathetic, could do. This book is not going to be wholly, or even mainly, made up of extracts from Emily's diary but, by way of linking up matters unimportant enough for a chapter in themselves, and yet necessary for a proper understanding of her personality and environment, I am going to include some more of them.
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