`` Oh , I decided on the title long ago . I call it AVERIL 'S ATONEMENT . Does n't that sound nice and alliterative ? Now , Diana , tell me candidly , do you see any faults in my story ? '' `` Well , '' hesitated Diana , `` that part where AVERIL makes the cake does n't seem to me quite romantic enough to match the rest . It 's just what anybody might do . Heroines should n't do cooking , I think . '' `` Why , that is where the humor comes in , and it 's one of the best parts of the whole story , '' said Anne . And it may be stated that in this she was quite right . Diana prudently refrained from any further criticism , but Mr. Harrison was much harder to please . First he told her there was entirely too much description in the story . `` Cut out all those flowery passages , '' he said unfeelingly . Anne had an uncomfortable conviction that Mr. Harrison was right , and she forced herself to expunge most of her beloved descriptions , though it took three re-writings before the story could be pruned down to please the fastidious Mr. Harrison . `` I 've left out ALL the descriptions but the sunset , '' she said at last . `` I simply COULD N'T let it go . It was the best of them all . '' `` It has n't anything to do with the story , '' said Mr. Harrison , `` and you should n't have laid the scene among rich city people . What do you know of them ? Why did n't you lay it right here in Avonlea -- changing the name , of course , or else Mrs. Rachel Lynde would probably think she was the heroine . '' `` Oh , that would never have done , '' protested Anne .
`` Avonlea is the dearest place in the world , but it is n't quite romantic enough for the scene XXXXX a story . ''
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