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"I am entranced. Having just returned from our pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, it is so delightful to hear it through Jane’s eyes. We love Anne, and this is my first non-Anne LM Montgomery. I am intrigued by this different tone… and fascinated by the whispers of Maud’s own life I’m hearing in it." — May 29, 2026 09:25PM
"I am entranced. Having just returned from our pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, it is so delightful to hear it through Jane’s eyes. We love Anne, and this is my first non-Anne LM Montgomery. I am intrigued by this different tone… and fascinated by the whispers of Maud’s own life I’m hearing in it." — May 29, 2026 09:25PM
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.”
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“Do you know who 'twas that first knew our Lord had caused Himself to be born? 'Twas the cock; he saw the star, and so he said–all the beasts could talk Latin in those days; he cried: 'Christus natus est!' "
He crowed these words so like a cock that Kristin fell to laughing heartily. And it did her good to laugh, for all the strange things Brother Edvin had just been saying had laid a burden of awe on her heart.
The monk laughed himself:
"Ay, and when the ox heard that, he began to low: 'Ubi, ubi, ubi.'
"But the goat bleated, and said: 'Betlem, Betlem, Betlem.'
"And the sheep so longed to see Our Lady and her Son that she baa-ed out at once: 'Eamus, eamus!'
"And the new-born calf that lay in the straw, raised itself and stood upon its feet. 'Volo, volo, volo!' it said.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
He crowed these words so like a cock that Kristin fell to laughing heartily. And it did her good to laugh, for all the strange things Brother Edvin had just been saying had laid a burden of awe on her heart.
The monk laughed himself:
"Ay, and when the ox heard that, he began to low: 'Ubi, ubi, ubi.'
"But the goat bleated, and said: 'Betlem, Betlem, Betlem.'
"And the sheep so longed to see Our Lady and her Son that she baa-ed out at once: 'Eamus, eamus!'
"And the new-born calf that lay in the straw, raised itself and stood upon its feet. 'Volo, volo, volo!' it said.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
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