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To read between the lines

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to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.

See also: Read



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What a starved, unloved life she had had--a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.
Any one who had been in a position to read between the lines would have seen that at the back of her great love was some monstrous fear--almost a desperation--as to some secret contingencies which were not disclosed.
 
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