“Her confusion put him at ease and he forgot to be shy; besides, even the shyest of men can sometimes be quite audacious in moonlight.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: Rainbow Valley (1919), Ch. 13

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Canadian fiction writer 1874–1942

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