Sentence No. 115 · 20 July 2026
Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic; but to go by Lover’s Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic, if ever anything was
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery — Anne of Green Gables (1908) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The semicolon pivots between two balanced halves: a dismissive 'would have been so unromantic' on one side, an enthusiastic 'was romantic' on the other. Spot the semicolon and you've located the sentence's hinge.
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On Sentle this sentence arrives in 8 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A walk to school becomes an enchantment of named places. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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