"'Little breezes dusk and shiver" "'Through the wave that runs for ever" "'By the island in the river" "'Flowing down to Camelot." "'And the silent isle embowers" "'The Lady of Shalott." "'Tis the fairy'" "'The Lady of Shalott" "'There she weaves by night and day" "'A magic web with colours gay." "'A curse is on her if she stay" "'To look down on Camelot." "'Little other care had she" "'The Lady of Shalott.'" "Anne!" "Anne!" "Coming Mrs. Hammond" "Anne Shirley." "Get in here this instant." "honey" "get get!" "?" "You're taking food out of my babies mouths" "Sorry Mrs. Hammond." "I've been rushing so." "This is quite heavy" "That will be my share so there won't be any less for the children." "Well just take them and clean them up" "Well if you'd pay more attention to your chores instead of pouring over them poor books of yours." "I won't do it again." "It was just so thrilling I couldn't put it down." "You darn well won't do it again" "And if I catch you reading anymore of them books of yours while you're supposed to be looking after my young'ns ...they'll feed the fire too Missy" "Well don't stand there looking deaf finish changing Megan and Peter" "Mr. Hammond and the men have been waiting well while you've been dawdling. but twins three times in succession is too much." "What?" "I simply couldn't live here if I hadn't any imagination." "I'll take none of your cheek Anne Shirley." "you'll be out on your backside if I get another word out of you." "Oh get going to the Mill before Mr. Hammond takes a whipping to you." "EAT!" "Not those God darned planks!" "What's the matter?" "Not that junk!" "you idiot." "Cut it out!" "Help!" "get down here!" "What happened Tom?" "He's been in a temper over lunch." "Screaming and swearing." "You know how he gets." "He wouldn't stop." "Someone take the wagon and go for the doctor." "He won't be needing no doctor. but I hadn't all but lost myself in the beauty of the day the only beauty which is vouchsafed me." "Poor Mr. Hammond might still be with us." "Mora." "He led a good life." "You have to think about yourself and your young'ns now" "Sell the Mill and come and live with me." "And what about the girl?" "She's an home child isn't she?" "Yah" "She'll have to go back to the orphanage." "Mrs. Hammond." "You must know how much I want to be of help to you in your time of trial." "I consider it a burden I must bear." "I was daft when I took you in." "It's all you're doing." "None but yours." "I blame myself entirely Mrs. Hammond." "To have to wait an extra hour for lunch is a terrible burden on any man but going back to an orphanage would be more than I could bear." "I beg of you Mrs. Hammond." "Please let me stay with you." "Orphan children are all the same." "Trash." "Trash." "That's right Anne Shirley." "Poor miserable trash that don't deserve no better." "Ma'am." "Mrs. Hammond." "I sent a reply to your letter just this morning" "I'm afraid we cannot take the girl." "We're overcrowded as it is." "Ma'am." "She ain't my responsibility no more You have to take her." "child" "Tell me what you know about yourself." "Mrs. Cadbury you'd find it a lot more interesting" "Ma'am born in Halifax." "Both parents died of the fever when she was just three months." "I took her in from a neighbor last year to help out with the young'ns but she's been in and out of orphanages ever since she was a wee thing and she's not too proud for here." "And what were your parents' names?" "Walter and Bertha Shirley." "Aren't they lovely names?" "I'm proud they had such nice names." "Hezekiah." "as long as they behave themselves." "I don't know. but I was never able to believe it." "A rose just couldn't smell as sweet if it was a thistle or a skunk-cabbage. ain't she?" "I can promise you that this is a real Christian place you folks is running here and I sure am grateful to you for helping me out of this predicament." "wait a minute." "Mrs. Hammond!" "We can't take her for at least another month!" "There are papers to be signed!" "I got a train to catch." "I'm glad we have each other." "It's so difficult finding a kindred spirit these days." "get undressed at once." "Have you no respect for rules and regulations." "but I wasn't paying attention." "You haven't been paying attention for the past six months." "I know I'll improve." "now." "That's a sentence I read once and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul." "I've had a request for two of our girls to live with families in Prince Edward Island." "And I've decided that you will be one of them." "Mrs. Cadbury." "Thank you with all my heart. but for good of discipline it seems that I must." "Perhaps this new family of yours shatter this dream world you that you live in" "get into your nightgown and go to bed." "Miss?" "thank you." "Would you prefer to sit in the ladies' waiting room?" "I prefer to sit here." "There's so much more scope for the imagination." "Thank you just the same." "Miss." "Thomas!" "Isn't that Matthew Cuthbert driving that buggy?" "Appears to be. and he never wears a suit except in church." "Maybe he's going courting." "Thomas." "He's not going fast enough for a doctor." "my afternoon is spoiled!" "I won't have a moments peace until I know what that man is up to." "Wearing his suit." "Marilla is simply going to have to explain all this." "who." "Marilla." "good morning." "And how are all the Lyndes? but I was kind of worried about you when I saw your brother drive by just now." "I'm fine." "Just fine." "Appreciate the concern." "But he was in his suit and smoking his pipe." "I don't mind so long as he smokes his pipe in the great outdoors and not in my kitchen." "He was in his suit." "Rachel." "Matthew never goes to town this time of year." "Matthew wasn't going to town." "don't keep me in such suspense." "He was going to Bright River. and he's coming in on the afternoon train." "A boy!" "You can't be serious." "you don't know anything about raising children." "Whatever put such an idea into your head? Matthew's getting along in years." "He's not as spry as he once was and his heart bothers him greatly." "Mrs. Spencer was up here before Christmas and said she was getting a little girl from the Hopeton Asylum in the spring." "Matthew and I gave it good consideration. tell her to bring us a boy home while she was at it." "I shall be surprised atnothing after this." "Nothing eleven or twelve;" "and young enough to be brought up properly." "You know I pride myself on speaking my mind." "I think you are doing a mighty risky thing." "I wish you'd consulted me first." "I read in the paper where a couple took a boy from an orphan asylum on purpose." "Burnt them to a crisp in their beds." "Rachel." "But Matthew was so terrible determined and it's so seldom that he sets his mind on anything that I felt I had to give in. where an asylum child put strychnine in the well in agony." "it was a girl in that instance." "we are not getting a girl." "Woap." "Matthew?" "Angus." "Is the afternoon train due soon?" "been and gone a half an hour ago" "There was a passenger dropped off for you." "She's waiting for you on the platform." "She?" "Matthew." "I don't think she bites." "it's a boy I've come for." "she won't have any trouble explaining." "She has a tongue of her own." "I suppose you're Mr. Matthew Cuthbert." "My name is Anne Shirley." "Anne is spelled with an "e' wild cherry tree and wait for you till morning. don't you think?" "no." "there's been a big mistake." "there's no mistake not if you're Mr. Matthew Cuthbert." "aren't you? most pleasantly I must say." "Mr. Cuthbert." "I'm sorry I was late." "like me." "I better hold on to my bag." "the handle falls off." "I mastered the trick of it on my journey." "It's a very old carpet bag but of course hers would be suited to a horse-drawn pavilion and not a train. even if it would have been nice to sleep in a wild cherry tree." "haven't we?" "because I love driving." "It seems so wonderful that I'm gonna live with you and belong to you. and the asylum was the worst place I've lived in yet. but I don't mean to be wicked." "isn't it?" "Am I talking too much?" "and I can stop if I make up my mind to do it." "You can talk all you like." "I don't mind." "Mr. Cuthbert." "I love this place already. and I used to imagine I was living here." "This is the first dream that has ever come true for me." "It's always been one of my dreams to live by the sea." "These red roads are so peculiar. and she said she didn't know and pity's sake not to ask her anymore questions." "do they Mr. Cuthbert?" "I feel pretty nearly perfectly happy. what color would you call this?" "Red?" "Red." "That's why I can't ever be perfectly happy." "I know I'm skinny and a little freckled and my eyes are green" "I can imagine I have a beautiful rose-leaf complexion but I cannot imagine my red hair away." "It'll be my life-long sorrow." "I read of a girl in a novel once who was divinely beautiful." "Have you ever imagined what it must be like to be divinely beautiful?" "I have often or angelically good?" "I don't know." "Neither do I" "I know I'll never be angelically good Mrs. Spencer says I talk so much that... what is this place called?" "ain't it?" "Pretty doesn't seem the right word to use." "Nor beautiful either;" "it don't go far enough." "It is wonderful." "Wonderful." ""The Avenue"!" "There's no meaning in a name like that." ""White Way of Delight" "It's far more glorious than I could ever have imagined." "That's Barry's pond." "no." "This is the Lake of Shining Waters." "That's its rightful name." "Mr. Cuthbert?" "picking up them ugly white grubs in the cucumber bed." "I can see how that could be very thrilling." "Woap." "yonder." "I've pinched myself so many times today to make sure that this was real." "But it is real and we're nearly home." "Gid'yup!" "I'm overwhelmed." "who is that?" "It's a girl." "I can see that." "Where's the boy?" "There weren't any." "Just her." "I figured we just couldn't leave her no matter what the mistake was." "this is a fine kettle of fish" "Matthew." "You don't want me?" "You don't want me because I'm not a boy?" "Nobody ever did want me." "I might have known this was all too beautiful to be true." "now." "Don't cry." "It is not your fault." "This is just the most tragical thing that has ever happened to me." "what's your name?" "Would you please call me Cordelia?" "Call you Cordelia?" "Don't you think it's a pretty name?" "Is that your name?" "though I would love to be called Cordelia." "I don't understand what you mean." "Cordelia is a perfectly elegant name." "and no more nonsense?" "unromantic Anne Shirley." "and hardly one to be ashamed of. would you please be sure to spell it with an "e"." "What difference does it make how it is spelled?" "It makes a lot of difference. but Anne with an "e" is quite distinguished I'll try and reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia. how is it that you happened to be brought and not a boy?" "would you keep me?" "No." "We have absolutely no use for a girl." "don't stand there gaping." "I suppose we'll have to put you somewhere tonight." "Take off your hat." "You must be hungry." "I can't eat." "I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair." "The depths of despair?" "Can you eat when you're that way?" "I've never been that way." "Can't you even imagine you're in the depths of despair?" "I can not." "To despair is to turn your back on God." "This is your room for the night." "Wash up and then come down for supper." "Miss Cuthbert." "I'm taking her straight over to that Spencer woman in the morning." "This girl has to go straight back to the asylum." "I suppose." "don't you know it?" "Marilla." "she's so set on staying." "I believe this child has bewitched you." "I can see plain is plain you want to keep her." "and she can be company for you. particularly a girl who prattles on without stopping for breath." "She's no good for us." "She has to go straight back where she came from we might be of some good to her." "Anne with an "e"." "It's difficult to say goodnight." "It's the worst night I've ever known." "child." "Goodnight." "Miss Cuthbert." "Little Jerry Buote from the Creek was around." "I told him I guess I'd hire him on for the summer." "child!" "Just fixing Green Gables in my memory." "In years to come I'm going to look back on Green Gables as a beautiful dream that will always haunt me." "Don't you think it's romantic" "You can think about it as you drive along." "Mr. Cuthbert." "Marilla." "dear." "You're the last person I ever expected to see today." "I'd imagine you would be getting Anne settled." "How are you Anne?" "Mrs. Spencer." "Sarah." "We told Roberta for you to get us a boy." "you don't say." "Roberta distinctly said that you wanted a girl." "I knew I should have gone myself." "Marilla." "I suppose the asylum will take the child back." "Mrs. Blewett was up here yesterday asking me you know she's simply beside herself for help." "would there happen to be any twins among them?" "child?" "Twins seem to be my lot in life." "Mrs. Spencer!" "And you'll be just the girl." "there's Mrs. Blewett this blessed minute." "I call this positively providential." "Mrs. Blewett." "Anne Shirley." "She'll be just the thing for you." "Miss Cuthbert." "Mrs. Blewett." "girl." "Thirteen. and I don't know but the wiry ones can work the hardest." "no mistaking that." "And I want you to act smart and be respectful." "I'll take her." "My twins have been awful fractious these days and I'm terrible worn out." "I don't know." "I feel I oughtn't make a decision until I speak to Matthew." "I'll just take her home again and talk to him." "ladies." "did you really say it or did I only just image it?" "except I want to speak to Matthew." "Sending you back to the orphanage is one thing." "Handing you over to the likes of Matilda Blewett is another." "I'd rather go back to the asylum than live with her." "she looks exactly like a gimlet. speaking of a stranger that way." "Hold your tongue and don't criticize your elders." "Miss Cuthbert." "Matthew?" "I wouldn't give a dog I liked to that Blewett woman." "It makes no sense to keep her." "I'd expect you not to interfere with my methods. but I know a darn sight more than a bachelor like you. that's certain." "Wouldn't that be a change around here?" "Have you said your prayers?" "I never say any prayers." "What do you mean?" "Haven't you been taught to say your prayers? and I've never cared for him since." "you will say your prayers." "if you want me to." "How does one do it?" "you kneel beside the bed." "That's the part I never really could understand." "Why must people kneel down to pray? and I'd look up into the sky. and then I'd close my eyes and just feel the prayer." "What am I to say?" "I think your old enough now to think of your own prayer." "You thank God for his blessings and then humbly ask him for the things you want." "I'll do my best." "I thank you for everything. so I'll just mention the two most important." "let me stay at Green Gables." "make me beautiful when I grow up." "with an "e"." "Did I do All right?" "if you were addressing a business letter to a catalog store." "Get into bed." "I should have said Amen instead of yours respectfully." "Do you think it will make any difference?" "this time." "Good night." "Miss Cuthbert." "That girl is next door to a perfect heathen." "Miss Cuthbert." "Where's Matthew?" "He had his breakfast hours ago." "Been in the fields ever since." "Why?" "I see I'll have to be up before the break of day if I'm to say good morning to Matthew." "That is if..." "If what?" "tell me if you're going to send me back." "but just can't bear it any longer." "you'll just have to bear it because I simply don't know. for all our sakes." "Would that suit you?" "Miss Cuthbert." "I do." "You may not be happy with two old grumps like us." "I know I would be." "I'd be happier than even I can imagine at this present moment I want you to learn that." "You need a little religion in your life as bad as you need fattening up. hallowed be thy name." "That is just like a line of music." "Miss Cuthbert." "and hold your tongue." "ma'am." "here comes Rachel Lynde. and then you come back here on your best behavior." "I don't want her knowing you're a heathen." "Marilla." "Rachel." "I'm shocked at this horrendous mistake I've heard about." "myself." "Couldn't you have sent her back?" "we're still considering on it." "Considering on it?" "What is there to consider?" "A boy would have been bad enough but" "Mrs. Rachel Lynde." "Anne Shirley." "Mrs. Lynde?" "her looks are certainly nothing to consider." "Marilla." "child." "Lawful heart!" "Her hair is as red as carrots!" "How dare you say I'm skinny and... carrots! and I hate you!" "Anne Shirley!" "How would you like to have nasty things said about you? and a sour old gossip." "Anne Shirley!" "you come back at once and apologize!" "Marilla." "That's the kind that puts strychnine in the well." "You shouldn't have twitted her about her looks." "Marilla Cuthbert! Rachel." "I see I'll have to be very careful what I say from now on." "Marilla." "I'm too sorry for you to leave any room for anger in my mind." "It's obvious to me that the good sense I admire in you left you when that child walked in your door!" "Marilla. but don't expect me to visit here again if I'm to be treated in such a fashion." "Rachel." "I had no idea you'd take me literally." "you would pick on Rachel Lynde." "She hadn't any right to say what she did." "Rachel is too outspoken. all of them very good reasons for you to have bit your tongue." "She deserves and apology." "You will go to her and you will give it." "I can never do that." "You can punish me any way you like. and feed me on bread and water." "I won't complain." "But I cannot ask Rachel Lynde to forgive me." "you will apologize to Mrs. Lynde." "Then you'll have to send me back." "Rachel Lynde deserves what she gets." "don't form opinions for me." "Next you'll be saying she oughtn't be punished at all." "I'm been upstairs in this house for four years." "then." "I'd rather die than apologize to Mrs. Lynde." "It's so humiliating." "Marilla is a terrible determined woman." "you know you can just be sort of sorry." "I'm not sorry at all." "I hear Mrs. Blewett's an awful work-horse." "It'll terrible lonesome around here without you." "Couldn't you just kind of smooth it over?" "do you?" "if you really wanted me to." "Of course I do." "I can't let Mrs. Lynde be the cause of our parting." "I don't have to be really sorry." "I just have to remove the disgrace I brought upon Marilla's good name." "Don't tell Marilla that I said anything." "She'll say I'm interfering." "Wild horses couldn't drag it from me." "Miss Cuthbert?" "What is it? and I'm willing to go and tell Mrs. Lynde so." "I think that's a wise decision." "I'll take you over first thing." "and don't forget to say your prayers." "ma'am." "she'd come to her senses." "Anne." "What are you muttering about?" "I'm just imagining out what I must say to Mrs. Lynde." "you look so elegant!" "You don't make an important visit in kitchen clothes." "I think amethysts are lovely. and then I saw a real diamond in a ladies- and come along." "Good morning Rachel." "Anne has something to say to you." "I'm extremely sorry I behaved so terribly. even though I'm not a boy." "and I deserve to be cast out forever. and my hair is red." "only I shouldn't have said it." "forgive me." "You wouldn't be so cruel as to inflict a life-long sorrow on a poor orphan." "forgive me." "of course I forgive you." "I guess I was a bit hard." "But you mustn't mind me;" "I'm known throughout these parts as a woman who speaks her mind." "And don't worry about your hair. it darkened into a real handsome auburn." "Mrs. Lynde." "I shall always think of you as a benefactress. what this child needs is discipline and a proper education." "The Sunday School picnic is scheduled this week for Barry's field." "I want you to take Anne so she can meet some civilized children her own age. but she may turn out All right." "Rachel." "you ought to put the girl into school." "Putting you in school doesn't mean a decision." "It's just as easy to take you out as put you in. but it does give a person reason to hope and it does give a person reason to doubt." "Understand? even though I am red-haired." "I hope not." "Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards." "I thought I might as well do it thoroughly." "Save your thoroughness for prayer." "And the praying that counts is the praying that's sincere." "God does not want you for a fair-weathered friend. and she was only my window friend." "Window friend? which was the only window which hadn't been smashed by her intoxicated husband." "I lived with them before the Hammonds. which was so beautiful." "I don't think you should have window friends anymore. would be to have a bosom friend." "A what kind of friend?" "Bosom friend a really kindred spirit." "I've dreamt of meeting her all my life." "Diana Barry lives over there on Orchard Slope." "She's about your age." "Her parents are sponsoring the picnic next Sunday." "You can meet her." "Diana of the Lake of Shining Waters." "For mercy's sake child." "You set your heart too much on silly names." "What should I call you?" "May I call you Aunt Marilla?" "No." "You can call me just plain Marilla." "I don't believe in calling people names that are not their own." "You could imagine you were my aunt." "I could not." "Don't you ever imagine things different from they are?" "No." "how much you miss." "How do you like them?" "I can imagine I like them." "What's the matter with them?" "They're not very pretty." "I'm not going to pamper your vanity." "These are good and sensible dresses." "and the others you can wear to school." "but I'd be even more grateful if you'd made this one with puffed sleeves." "I cannot waste material on ridiculous looking frills and furbelows." "Plain and sensible is best." "I've always dreamed of going to a picnic in puffed sleeves." "I'd rather look ridiculous with everyone else than plain and sensible all by myself." "Trust you for that." "Have you seen my amethyst brooch?" "Yes" "Did you touch it?" "just to see what it looked like." "You had no business to meddle with my brooch." "Where did you put it?" "Back on the pin cushion." "and I promise I'll never do it again." "That's the one good thing about me;" "I never do the same wrong thing twice." "The brooch is gone and you were the last one to handle it." "Did you take it out and lose it?" "I didn't." "you are telling me a falsehood." "Go to your room. even if it takes a month of Sundays." "If you let me out for the picnic." "I just have to go to the picnic." "You are not going to the picnic or anywhere else until you tell me the truth. or any friend at all? more than any picnic." "Now go to your room." "I've looked in every crack and cranny." "Matthew." "She's taken that brooch and lied about it." "I feel worse about that than about the brooch." "Are you sure it didn't fall behind the bureau?" "I moved the bureau." "I even checked the cracks in the floor. but" "now I realize that I was right not to be too hasty. and you know it." "I'm ready to confess." "What have you to say for yourself?" "I took the brooch because I was too overcome with irresistible temptation. with the wind blowing my auburn hair over to Camelot. it slipped from my fingers and sank beneath the rippling waves." "The best I can do at confessing." "Now may I go to the picnic?" "No." "Marilla." "Was it a keepsake from a tragic romance?" "You did say I could go if I confessed." "What you can do is pack your bags and start imagining your life with Mrs. Blewett." "Rachel Lynde was right." "I can't imagine how I let that child worm her way into my affections." "I'm furious at myself for having let this happen." "Marilla!" "What ever made you say that you took it and lost it?" "You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed." "I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could." "But it was still a lie." "You wouldn't believe the truth." "child." "I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me." "you get dressed for service." "Miss Cuthbert." "Mr. Barry" "I'd like you to meet Anne Shirley." " Hello" "Mr. Barry?" "Diana." "She's over there in the garden." "Anne." "And don't make any of your vibrant speeches." "Goodness knows what Rachel has told them already about you if you were going to eat ice-cream for the first time in your life." "Marilla." "Anne." "Rachel." "Rev. Allan." "Mrs. Allan." "This is the orphan girl that the Cuthberts are looking after." "this is the Reverend and Mrs. Allan." "Anne?" "thank you." "Marilla?" "We must try our best to relieve your jitters." "Miss Cuthbert? now that you've moved into the manse Miss Cuthbert." "She is anxious to learn your secrets." "I'm so pleased you could come." "This must be the Anne we've heard so much about." "This is my Diana." "Diana." "I think she's enchanting." "Marilla? I might have a chance to make up my mind." "Marilla has given me strict instructions not to talk a head off." "I do have a habit of chattering on so. a magpie would probably be the closest thing I could resemble." "I've always dreamed of being in a three-legged race at a picnic." "Would you do me the honor of being my partner?" "But there aren't any other girls in it." "and I'm fast." "I know we'd stand a good chance." "I guess so." " Come on!" "who's your friend?" "Anne Shirley." "On your marks." "Get set." "I never expected a daughter of mine to outrun the boys." "Diana." "Diana." "Don't you?" "I think it's a shame that Gilbert had to lose on a count of Moody." "Don't you think Gilbert's handsome?" "He is handsome." "But I think your Gilbert is awfully bold to wink at a strange girl." "I wish he'd wink at me." "but he's in our class." "His father's been ill and he's been away for two years." "I don't want to be the only one who's behind in school." "our school teacher. and Prissy thinks she's queen bee just because she's studying her entrance to Queens." "He moons over her something terrible." "and she moons over Gilbert." "Josie just want attention." "I hope she nearly drowns." "I wish it had me." "It would be such a romantic experience nearly to drown. but I have a feeling we're going to get along really well." "What is your name?" "Anne Shirley." "Anne's spelled with an "e"." "We pride ourselves on our scholastic record." "And we hope you will strive to meet our standards." "Mr. Phillips. and both my parents were teachers." "I'm positive we'll have a lot in common." "You will share a seat with Diana Barry." "Mr. Phillips." "Diana Barry is my bosom friend." "Please take your seat and read your lesson." "I must work with my Queens student now." "All right class." "Take out your notebooks." "Memorize the dictation from yesterday." "Carrots." "Carrots!" "How dare you!" "Anne Shirley!" "What is the meaning of this?" "Sir." "I was teasing her." "Stand at the blackboard for the rest of the day." "I will not tolerate this kind of indignant temperament in my class." "Ann Shirley has a very bad temper" "And she will learn to control it." "You will write this one hundred times before leaving today." "wait!" "I'm sorry for teasing you about your hair." "Don't be mad at me for keeps." "how could you?" "Gilbert always makes fun of the girls." "but I've never heard him apologize before." "There's a world of difference between being called crow-head and being called carrots." "I shall never forgive Gilbert Blythe." "Diana." "My mind is made up; my red hair is a curse." "I've heard all about it." "Now you open your door at once!" "Marilla." "I'm in the depths of despair." "you open this door at once!" "Are you sick?" "Go away." "Don't look at me." "don't play innocent with me." "I'm so ashamed I don't know where to begin." "What do you mean by breaking your slate over some boy's head?" "He called me Carrots." "I don't care what he called you." "You have no reason to lose your temper. what have you done to your hair?" "I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair." "Green is ten times worse." "You don't know how utterly wretched I am. but I demand that you tell me." "I dyed it." "Dyed it?" "child." "But he positively assured me it'd turn my hair a beautiful raven black." "Who did?" "Who are you talking about?" "The peddler we met on the road today" "I absolutely forbid you to" "What's the use?" "I hope that this has opened your eyes to see where your vanity has taken you." "What shall I do?" "I'll never be able to live this down." "I can't face him again." "Gilbert Blythe had no right to call me carrots." "You really smashed your slate over that boy's head?" "Yes." "Hard?" "I'm afraid." "I know I should be angry." "I should be furious." "What a way to behave your first day at school! I won't say another word about it." "You're not going to send me back?" "I've come to a decision." "Trial is over." "You will stay at Green Gables." "Marilla!" "I think you may be a kindred spirit after all." "ever look at myself again." "and the prettiest one this side of Halifax." "now." "Stop this nonsense." "Some girls in books lose their hair in fevers or sell it for money for some good deed." "I'm sure I wouldn't have minded losing my hair like that." "There's nothing comforting in having your hair cut off because you dyed it." "This is the very last of the Queen Anne's Lace for the summer." "Don't worry about your hair." "No one even notices it anymore." "Every time I look at myself I do penance by saying how ugly I am." "I don't even try to imagine it away. aren't you supposed to be studying?" "but I had to talk to you right away." "That's why I used the white flags." "Well?" "Just let me catch my breath. and I overheard her talking with Mrs. Blair. and mother said you have a disposition just like Marilla's. but because of a quarrel and she's had to live with her brother ever since." "So that's it!" "What?" "Poor Marilla's been thwarted in love." "It must have been a supremely tragic romance." "Did they say anything else? but I'll keep my ears open." "now." "Mother doesn't know I'm gone." "Good luck on the exam tomorrow." "too." "I hope you stand first." "I am indebted to you for life." "class." "Times up" "Place your pencils beside your papers." "I'll collect your papers once everyone has left." "I would like to announce the mathematics half-term results." "The three best standings are as follows:" "Gilbert Blythe" "Anne Shirley" "Prissy Andrews." "I think Miss Andrews has shown excellent progress under my tutelage." "Class dismissed." "Anne." "I think he was trying to rub it in." "Anne." "We'll be late." "Diana." "We'll be completely civilized and take the road" "I have no intention of arriving out of breath for our examination." "you ought to be horse-whipped!" "This will be the last time I catch you little trouble makers in my pasture." "These fields are not a free-for-all!" "You frighten my cattle to death and they won't be milked." "Mr. Sadler." "from being tortured. you can't know how utterly wretched I feel to have you think I'd frighten them. if I ever catch any of you on my land again!" "hop to it before I tan your backside! for once and for all." "Phillips." "You are the worst teacher this school has ever had." "The order you keep is scandalous!" "You're worth half of what they pay you." "And I know for a fact that you would never have gotten this post if your uncle wasn't on the board of trustees. and keep them out of trouble" "and out of my fields." "to you. we shall indulge your taste for it this afternoon." "next to Gilbert Blythe." "Did you hear what I said?" "Sir." "I didn't suppose you really meant it." "I assure you I did." "Obey me at once." "let's begin the spelling bee." "can you give us the spelling of the word chrysanthemum? no r- i" " s" " a -n-s-m" " u-m." "Perhaps we'll turn our attention to your spelling now that you mathematics is well in hand." "chrysanthemum." "Chrysanthemum." "C- h-r-y" " s-a-n-t-h-a" " m-u-m" "Anne?" "Chrysanthemum." "C- h-r-y-s-a-n-t-h" " e" " m-u-m." "Correct." "Anne!" "How do you spell freckles?" "Josie!" "How do you spell ugly?" "Anne well at least you're acknowledging me now." "That's an improvement. nothing more." "why don't you get off your high horse?" "Mr. Blythe." "But allow me to inform you that next time I shall be first in every subject." "Anne!" "You've got more nerve than a fox in a hen house." "I don't see any need in being civil to someone who chooses to associate with the likes of Josie Pye." "You're just jealous." "Diana Barry!" "She's jealous of you. right in front of Josie." "He did?" "He told Charlie that being smart was better than being good-looking." "I might have known he meant to insult me." "he didn't." "It isn't better." "I'd much rather be pretty than smart." "But at least I don't have to cheat like Josie does." "She doesn't have to cheat;" "she just does it because she's a Pye." "I'm pleased to announce" "That Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe have tied for first place honors in the term finals." "the sad news" "I'm leaving Avonlea." "I shall not be with you in the fall to guide your progress to even greater heights of scholastic achievement." "Let us not have tears partings are a natural part of life." "I have glad tidings. where Moody's parents have consented to host a celebration in honor of my departure." "Nobody told me." "Bye. no matter what." "And apparently the trustees are forcing him to leave because of Prissy. even though he did spell my name without an "e"." "I wouldn't feel too sorry for him." "He's got a position as a private tutor over in Charlottetown." "I suppose some people consider it an accomplishment" "Diana." "I knew of a girl in Marysville who could walk the ridgepole of a roof." "little miss bookworm." "couldn't I?" "Anne?" "Mr. Blythe?" "I dare you!" "I dare you to walk the ridgepole of Moody's kitchen roof." "Anne!" "Never mind her; it's not a fair dare." "I shall walk that ridgepole or perish." "Anne!" "are you killed?" "Just say one word and tell me know if you're killed!" "but I think I've been rendered unconscious." "Mr. Blythe." "I'll call a carriage and help you home." "That won't be necessary." "I'm quite capable of getting there on my own." "I'm going your way." "At least let me give you a hand." "but I am going in the opposite direction." "Diana." "you should have let him help you." "You're in no condition to walk home." "Of course you would take the long route when you've sprained your ankle." "I wouldn't think of giving Gilbert Blythe the satisfaction of helping me!" "Why don't we cut through here?" "It's much shorter." "But you told me this forest was haunted." "I don't think it's haunted in daylight." "That doesn't matter it's always dark in the forest." "Diana." "What kind of ghosts would you say live in here?" "I'm not sure there are any." "I only imagined it was haunted because it seemed so romantic at the time." "What is it?" "Did you see a ghost?" "My foot caught on something." "Charlie Sloan said that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving the cows home last year." "So?" "His grandfather died two years ago." "There's supposed to be a white lady who walked along the riverbank wringing her hands and wailing." "The men never actually saw her." "don't." "Perhaps she is now accompanied by Mr. Hammond who is looking for his lunch." "I shouldn't have said that." "He may follow me here." "I'm scared." "So am I" "Deliciously scared." "Mrs. Hammond said she once felt the ghost of a murdered child creep up behind her and lay its icy fingers on her hand. and I don't think she would lie." "Do you think there may be ghosts living in there?" "Diana." "and help me out!" "Anne?" "Are you All right?" "I twisted my other ankle." "What are we going to do?" "Diana." "I'll be All right here." "and ask if he'll come back and get me." "You'll get carried off by ghosts." "I'd never forgive myself." "Diana." "Go. although I may be forced to faint if my imagination gets the better of me." "Anne." "Bye-bye." "What happened to her?" "Marilla." "She's All right." "Marilla. and then I twisted my other ankle falling into an old well. barely the last day of school." "look on the bright side I might have broken my neck." "And what would you have done if someone dared you to walk a ridgepole?" "I would have stayed on firm ground and let them dare away." "don't be too hard on her. especially considering that she took first place in the term results." "Tied for first." "Tied for first place?" "My Anne?" "it's certain that she didn't injure her tongue." "Come on!" "You clutter up the house too much with outside things." "Don't we have enough flowers right outside our door?" "I want the house to look flowery to impress Diana when she arrives for tea." "Marilla?" "No." "The everyday set will be do for your company. and there's a bottle of raspberry cordial on the shelf in the kitchen. so you must see that Matthew and Jerry's supper is laid out for them." "Miss Cuthbert." "Diana." "I trust that you will be responsible for your guest." "I'll be the perfect hostess." "ladies." "let me." "So good of you to invite me to tea this afternoon." "Please come in and make yourself comfortable." "Why thank you." "How is your mother?" "thank you." "I saw Mr. Cuthbert hauling potatoes to the Lilly Sand's boat this afternoon." "Our crop is quite good." "We were fortunate to have hired Jerry Buote to help us with the harvest." "yet?" "Ever so many!" "Marilla has been cooking and baking endlessly." "We have enough pies and cakes and preserves to last us for years. so I won't tell you what she said we could have to drink." "right?" "that's my favorite." "You mean you've had it before?" "Lots of times." "Haven't you?" "I've never tasted it." "But you can have as much as you like." "I have to stir up the fire." "There are so many responsibilities on a person's mind when they're housekeeping." "Anne." "Much better than Mrs. Lynde's." "She brags about hers all the time." "Marilla is a famous cook." "It doesn't taste a bit like it." "She's trying to teach me how to cook." "I am a dismal failure" "There's no scope of the imagination in cooking." "You simply have to go by the rules." "I forgot to put the flour in it." "Diana." "I went over to your bedside and nursed you back to life." "Then I took small pox and died." "and watered it with your tears. who sacrificed her life for yours. that I forgot to put the flour in the cake." "The cake was a dismal failure." "The flour is so essential to baking." "It bubbled all over the inside of the stove." "It was a mess." "Marilla was furious." "I don't wonder." "I'm such a trial to her." "I feel sick." "I've got to go home." "you haven't eaten yet." "A piece of cake and another glass of cordial will be just the thing." "have some." "You can't be sick!" "Wake up!" "I've got to go home." "where does it hurt?" "I've got to go home." "I'm awful dizzy." "It's probably the small pox epidemic." "Diana;" "I'll never forsake you." "I'll nurse you back to health." "Please stay until after tea." "Diana?" "She's drunk!" "what did you give my Diana to drink?" "Mrs. Barry." "my foot!" "The girl smells like Jake Griffith's distillery." "Drunk?" "My daughter is drunk?" "the chairwoman of the temperance society." "Anne Shirley! and I've been proven right." "will never see you again." "Leave our property at once!" "Drunk?" "What on earth did you give her?" "Only raspberry cordial." "but I didn't know it would set her drunk." "You certainly have a genius for trouble." "can't you tell the difference?" "I've never tasted either." "Stop crying." "It wasn't your fault." "I probably put the cordial in the cellar instead of the pantry." "I'll go over and explain." "I don't believe a word of it. and she's pulled the wool over your eyes." "Marilla." "I ask you." "It isn't meant to be drunk three tumbler-fulls at a time." "I'd sober her up with a darn good spanking!" "is it?" "It's the demon liquor's fault." "if you didn't insist on making that current wine- is not opposed to taking a bit when he comes calling." "making a little wine for refreshment is far less sinful than meddling in other people's affairs! she is the worst!" "I don't think Mrs. Barry is a well-bred woman." "would entirely meet with her approval." "especially in front of the minister's wife." "you'd have it just about right." "This story will make a fine handle for all those folks who have always been down on my making current wine." "I haven't even attempted it in the past three years." "That bottle was only for sickness." "don't cry." "I don't see it as being your fault." "I'm just sorry it happened at all." "my heart is broken." "The stars in their courses fight against me." "child." "Marilla!" "Your mother hasn't relented? Anne." "We can't ever be friends again. no matter what other friends come into your life?" "Anne." "Do you really love me?" "Of course I do. except for Matthew and Marilla." "Will you swear to be my secret bosom friend?" "But isn't it wicked to swear?" "We're in enough trouble already." "Not when you're swearing a vow." "I solemnly swear for as long as the sun and the moon shall endure." "Now you say it." "I solemnly swear to remain faithful for as long as the sun and the moon" " Shall endure" "Shall endure." "And as long as my mother doesn't find out." "she mustn't." "I can't ever..." "I have to get back;" "she'll be suspicious." "Wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet black tresses?" "But I don't have any black dresses." "Your hair." "All right." "I have to go." "my beloved friend. but my heart will be ever faithful to thee." "would you join us in the classroom?" "And how about you?" "You want to join our class?" "sit down." "Miss Stacey." "I want to begin by saying that I think it's most unfair and I'm hoping that you'll be enthusiastic enough about my classes that you'll pepper me with questions." "I shall do my very best to live up to the standards you were used to under Mr. Phillips." "I am unfailingly strict about punctuality and attention in class. and I promise you I shall do my utmost to help you form strong ideals" "ideals which will be the foundation of your future lives." "I want to look back on this class the most committed students on Prince Edward Island." "Anne." "I'd like to have a few words with you." "Anne." "Reading novels during geometry class is a misuse of your time." "it's a deception." "Miss Stacey? not even to see how the chariot race turned out." "I'm returning this to you because I Know I can trust you not to let it happen again. to develop your imagination." "It's a precious gift." "But not during geometry class." "I knew you were sympathetic to the human plight the minute we met." "I understand you have a plight of your own. her mother's refused to even let her speak with me." "I had a visit from Mrs. Barry." "I can't understand the social persecution of being an orphan." "It is a terrible injustice to be falsely accused." "Anne." "so they put up walls to protect themselves from it." "What we must bear in mind is all these as long as we can hold on to the lessons we've learn from our mistakes." "we can always start everything fresh tomorrow." "Miss Stacey." "Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it." "there's no mistakes in it yet. don't lose heart." "Diana will always be your friend." "in the end." "the truth will set you free." "The truth will set you free." "Did you bring the pudding?" "Marilla here's something I've got to check outside for a moment." "What do you have to check?" "that girl." "Perhaps we should have the plum pudding without the sauce." "Whatever for?" "I've never served it without the sauce." "I forgot to put the cheese cloth over it last night." "on my way to the altar to take the vows- then you were lucky that the mice had sense enough to stay away from it." "goodness gracious." "at this hour just before supper?" "Miss Stacy!" "Miss Cuthbert." "I thought I'd take the opportunity to stop by." "now?" "I hope this kerfuffle with Diana Barry hasn't made her neglect her studies." "not at all-quite the contrary." "which is why I'm here." "would you permit her to join a special class?" "I intend to give extra classes after school for those students who intend to take the entrance exams at Queens." "The college in Charlottetown?" "Our Anne?" "very determined or even go on to the university." "I always thought that a girl should learn to make a living it's a very insecure world." "if she wants to." "that is wonderful!" "Why don't you stay for supper?" "I'm just about to set the table." "I couldn't impose. yourself." "All right." "Miss Cuthbert." "Miss Stacy." "Anne actually made this plum pudding herself." "I can hardly wait to taste it." "do." "MISS STACY!" "what is wrong with you?" "Marilla." "I was working up the courage to tell you when Miss Stacy came and... you are going to have to give up your featherbrained ways." "You are not interested in anything but your silly daydreams and nothing else." "Marilla." "I know I chatter on far too much. you'd give me some credit. for a mouse." "Marissa." " Thank you." "Miss Stacy." "You're welcome." "Aren't you going to be in the Queen's class?" "Mother says I should concentrate on learning to run a household instead of pouring over books so much." "Diana." "I feel as though you've tasted the bitterness of death." "All right class." "Let's start with the Latin verbs." "We'll move on to algebra after that." "Please open your books at page three. and I should be home tomorrow before supper." "Have a lovely time." "Do you think you'll meet the prime minister?" "we'll more than meet him. and the world - in that order." "Be good girl." " Bye." "the way the government runs things." "Matthew?" "Rachel Lynde is a Grit." "we would soon see a blessed change"." "Matthew?" "I vote Conservative." "too." "some of the boys at school are Grits. he always has to agree with the girl's mother in religion and her father in politics" "Ruby Gillis knows all about courting because she has three older sisters." "Matthew?" "I don't knows if I have." "ever?" "Why ever not?" "I couldn't do it without talking to a girl." "I'm sure there were many broken hearts as a result." "go on." "she wants to have a line of beaus on a string and make them crazy for her." "I'd rather have one in his rightful mind." "There are some things in this world that even I cannot hope to understand." "either. and Mary Joe's babysitting." "She doesn't know what to do." "And we can't get word to mother and father because they're at the rally still." "Diana." "Matthew will get the doctor." "I can read his thoughts." "too." "I'm scared." "The baby can't breathe." "Diana." "Diana." "I know exactly what to do for the croup." "Ipecac is an expectorant. and it was me that treated them." "but I've seen worse." "and boil some water." "but you might have thought of that before if you'd had any imagination." "and I'll keep administering the ipecac." "I've given her the last of the ipecac." "look after the water." "We'll change the muster plaster. but it wasn't until she coughed up the phlegm that she really began to improve." "doctor." "Some things cannot be expressed in words." "Would have been too late by the time I got here." "You saved this little baby's life." "I can't go to school." "I can barely keep my eyes open." "But I hate to stay at home." "Gil will get ahead and..." "Gid'yup!" "Morning." "I hear." "Did you meet the prime minister?" "What does he look like?" "he certainly didn't become prime minister but he's a fine speaker." "He shook my hand." "How exciting." "I can just imagine the thrill of the rally with all those people." "Mrs. Barry was over here before begging to see you." "But I wasn't about to wake you." "You're invited to dinner." "I should imagine humble pie is on the menu." "may I go right now?" "I'm aching to see Diana." "Anne." "You saved my baby's life." "Mrs. Barry." "I hope you believe me once and for all that I never meant to intoxicate Diana." "child." "I'm so sorry I ever doubted you." "Mother says you can come with us to the Christmas ball at Carmody." "And we'd be honored if you'd stay the night with Diana as well." "and you would be our guest of honor." "You can calm down because you're not going." "I'm surprised she's allowing Diana to go." "not children." "it's Christmas." "The minister's gonna to be there." "and that's almost the same as a sermon." "and you know what I meant by it." "There'll be plenty of balls when you're older." "But I was invited to spend the night." "I'm to be the guest of honor." "aye?" "Now off to bed." "This is a wound I shall bear forever." "Good night." "the way she saved that Barry baby." "Why don't you let her go?" "who we agreed would be raising her. and I'm not going to allow it." "is going to change my mind." "if she had the notion." "I don't approve of balls." "Just fill her head with nonsense." "you never went to a ball." "this whole idea's got you scared to death." "That little girl ought to have all the kindness we can give her." "We've got no call to raise her as cheerless as we was." "It ain't interfering to have an opinion." "it's Christmas." "You ought to let her go." "you can go." "though I wash my hands of it." "blame Matthew." "I dreamt last night that I arrived at the ball in puffed sleeves and everyone was overcome by my regal am- my eye." "greasy water all over my clean floor! that's what I'll do." "what can I do for you today?" "uh... uh..." "Do you have any garden rakes?" "but I'll check upstairs." "We may have one or two in storage." "The very last one." "that's.. that's nice." "Mr. Cuthbert?" "uh..." "I might want to look at some hayseed." "Mr. Cuthbert." "certainly." "Of course." "Mr. Cuthbert." "uh.. uh..." "Yes..." "Sugar." "Sugar?" "Some sugar." "white or brown?" "uh..." "What would you say?" "Mr. Cuthbert." "How much would you like?" "Well..." "Would twenty pounds be enough?" "I'm sure twenty pounds would be enough." "That'll be $1." "I need a dress." "Puffed sleeves." "Puffed sleeves?" "For Anne." "why didn't you say so in the first place?" "you just come with me to the window." "Oh!" "It's so beautiful!" "indeed." "I knew Matthew was up to some foolishness." "look at the puffs." "They're ridiculous." "You'll have to turn sideways to get through the doors." "This can't be real." "young lady. so now you go upstairs and take that off." "I have to thank Matthew." "Twenty pounds of brown sugar." "but" "I thought you might want to wear it to the ball." "Don't you like it?" "Like it?" "It's more exquisite than any dress I could ever have imagined." "Puffed sleeves." "Puffiest in the world." "Matthew." "I don't want to get your dress dirty." "okay?" "I'm positively certain this will spoil everyday life forever." "I'm going to wear my hair like Alice Bell." "She's only seventeen and I think she looks ridiculous." "I'm going to wait until I'm eighteen." "my." "Doesn't Gilbert look dashing tonight?" "Gilbert?" "I hadn't noticed him." "It's too bad you've been so awful to him He might of asked you to dance." "he certainly would." "Gilbert Blythe would stand on his head for me if I asked him to." "Anne!" "I bet you couldn't get him to dance with you." "Diana." "If you insist." "Mr. Blythe." "Tell your brother I'll be seeing him at the tobogganing party." "A glass of punch miss?" " Thank you." "Diana!" "You look wonderful tonight." "Merry Christmas!" "Gilbert." "How could you wish that person a merry Christmas?" "after all." "will you give me the pleasure instead?" "Thank you." "I believe I will." "I think Gilbert took your dance card." "Such a romantic gesture would be utterly beyond his imagination." "Well then who?" "Josie Pie?" "obviously." "We should get to bed before mother comes down." "She said we could sleep in the spare bedroom." "Isn't that exciting?" "then." "I'll race you to see who get the warm side of the bed." "Ready?" "Get set." "Go!" "Oh!" "Merciful heavens!" "What is the meaning of this?" "Aunt Josephine." "Mother said you weren't coming until tomorrow." "Is that any reason to try to kill me in my sleep?" "you are the worst behaved girl I have ever known." "Your parents will certainly hear about this outrage." "ma'am." "It was my idea to race." "we didn't." "Aunt Jo." "We're terribly sorry" "I most certainly will tell her." "She'll want to know the reason why I changed my mind about the music lessons I was going to pay for." "young lady." "Now get out of here and let a poor old woman get some sleep." "Anne. and she's the only one in the family who's rich enough to pay for them." "Diana." "She'll probably leave in a big huff first thing tomorrow morning." "But I don't care." "She's only father's great-aunt never been close wasn't it?" "Did you see the look on her face?" "I won't have you lose your music lessons because of me." "I'll just have to have a talk with her." "don't." "She'll eat you alive." "I've had lots of practice in making apologizes before." "Just leave it to me." "All right" "What?" "Come to finish the job?" "ma'am." "Who are you?" "Anne of Green Gables and I've come to confess." "Confess what?" "I'm not interested in the confessions of assassins who masquerade as little girls." "Miss Barry." "Diana would never think of such a thing as racing to a bed whereas I am merely an orphan who doesn't know any better." "So I think you ought to forgive Diana and let her have her music lessons back." "do you?" "ma'am." "Do you have any idea what it's like to be wakened from the few hours of precious hours of sleep granted an old woman in a strange bed wild girls landing on her head?" "I don't know." "I can imagine it must have been terrifying in the extreme." "And if you had any imagination you could have put yourself in our place." "thank you very much." "Miss Barry?" "imagination is a threat to life. and you scared us half to death." "You should just imagine how exciting it was going to be for me reserved for important company such as yourself." "and you don't know how she kicks." "Miss Barry." "I was forced to lie awake all night with the knowledge that I had cost Diana her career as a world famous concert pianist." "I suppose your claim to sympathy is as valid as mine." "Anne of Green Gables?" "Miss Barry." "It's a note expressing my outrage to Diana's parents." "The trouble is I don't feel outraged anymore." "what do you suggest." "which she's too frightened to do at this moment." "I have a better idea." "Suppose I reinstate her music lessons in exchange for" "you coming to visit me in Charlottetown on occasion?" "Miss Barry?" "Anne of Green Gables." "Diana can come along as well." "and precious little in this world amuses me at my age." "You seem a very interesting old lady to me." "are you?" "Miss Barry. and don't you let on any different." "Will you come and see me?" "Then go tell Diana she can be a concert pianist after all." "Miss Barry." "We appreciate your making up your mind so swiftly." "Anne-girl." "Diana." "two silver bagels." "One for you and one for the Anne-girl." "I want to become better acquainted with you both." "I will put you up in my very sparest of spare rooms." "Aunt Josephine Barry." "kindred spirits aren't as scarce as I used to think." "do you intend to daydream during the Charlottetown exam?" "class." "it will all be over." "This is one of those rare moments when not even my imagination can solve my anxiety." "Aunt Jo." " Diana." "you Anne-girl." "Mercy me." "You're both so much better looking than you used to be." "I'm sure Diana is." "My hair is still red." "John." "Take the bags right upstairs." "Wipe your feet." "Aunt Jo." "You must be tired from your trip." "Nancy will prepare your bath and look after you." "I suppose you want to cram for your exam tonight." "so I won't get the jitters." "we can have a leisurely dinner after you've freshened up." "I've planned a tremendous surprise." "tell John I will have my tea with him in the palm room." "I've never been here before." "I didn't know she was this rich." "No wonder she has so little imagination." "you have to dream all this up." "Anne." "Don't make me nervous." "fluttery feeling around my heart." "I have faith in you." "You'll pass All right." "I'd rather not pass at all than come out somewhere in the middle." "Miss Stacy." "Everyone has such great hopes for me." "It would be such a disgrace if" "Gilbert came first?" "if I had to." "then." "Gilbert. or they will be discounted completely." "You may now begin." "I felt exactly like I did three years ago when I asked Marilla if I was to stay at Green Gables." "You had me worried there for a moment." "I could see you turning green." "but I knew you'd pull through." "Miss Stacy." "Anne Shirley." "it's you." "even from Halifax." "you really are going to leave Avonlea?" "nothing to worry about." "true friends are always together in spirit. for giving all of us the chance to make something of ourselves." "Someone else wants to say goodbye." "I want to remind you of something you once told me." "Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it." "I was born for city life." "Anne." "I hadn't thought seriously about it until now." "I'd still prefer the sound of the wind and the birds across the brook more than the tinkering of crystal." "Anne?" "I was wrong." "Miss Barry." "Diana." "parading around like she had an alabaster brow?" "I wouldn't" "I shouldn't have said that." "That's uncharitable." "I was comparing it to my own nose and that is vanity." "Someone complimented me on my nose long ago and" "I'm afraid I've thought about it far too much ever since." "Anne-girl." "I wasn't meaning to be funny." "I hope you both enjoyed the matinee." "immensely." "Anne." "Unforgettably." "Then you must stay with me when you come back and study." "too." "You'd both be welcome!" "I haven't has so much fun since- never mind in how long since." "I thought Marilla Cuthbert was an old fool when I'd heard that she'd adopted a little orphan girl." "But I see now which of us was the old fool." "girls." "Miss Barry." " Bye!" "Thank you!" "Thank you for everything!" " It was lovely having you here." "too?" "sir." "I wish we could offer you a ride." "that's All right." "I'm meeting Moody at the station." "I wish you luck on the exam." "I hope you come in first." "You've worked hard." "but I'm sure the first will go to you." "won't we." "you be Elaine." "You're the only one who has golden hair." "I couldn't lie there and pretend I was dead." "I'd die of fright." "Honest." "Anne." "This is your idea." "A red-haired person cannot play the Lily Maid." "Tennyson would never approve." "Your complexion is just as fair as Ruby's." "your hair's darker now than just plain old red." "Really?" "and that's sort-of close to blonde." "All right." "It isn't not authentic." "Lay the piano cover over me." "she really looks dead." "I'm frightened." "Mrs. Lynde says that acting is a sin." "keep quiet." "You're spoiling the effect." "this is hundreds of years before Mrs. Lynde was born." "you arrange all of this." "It's ridiculous for Elaine to be talking when she's supposed to be dead." "the flowers." "smile a little." ""Elaine lay as though she smiled." "That's better." "ladies." "Let us send her to her watery grave." "There she weaves by night and day" "A magic web with colours gay." "She has heard a whisper say" "A curse is on her if she stay" "To look down on Camelot." "And at the closing of the day And as the boat-head wound along The Lady of Shalott." "She looked so good with her hair." "Anne!" "She drowning!" "Anne's drowning!" " We have to go get some help." "Anne's drowning!" "Anne Shirley." "What in heck are you doing?" "Fishing for lake trout." "For lake trout?" "Nobody's home." "It's too late." "She's drowned and we're murderers." "Matthew." "Come on." "I was in Diana's skiff but it sprang a leak and I had to climb onto the piling or sink." "if you'd be so kind as to row me to the landing." "I see." "then the fact is I rescued you." "Help is on the way and I was calmly waiting for it." "You're most welcome. even though it was not required." "I have to find my friends." "They are likely overcome with fear for my life." "wait." "Wait a minute." "I was just down at the post office to see if the Queens results had been printed." "Gilbert." "I'm sure you're very proud of your achievements." "you ninny." "We tied for first place." "You and I." "I figured you'd have it for sure." "our entire class." "First of all two hundred?" "I'm sorry you had to share it with me." "I never expected to beat you." "Can't we be friends?" "don't you think?" "The fact that you rescued me unnecessarily hardly wipes out past wrongs." "I'm sorry I ever said anything about your hair." "No idea how sorry." "It was so long ago." "Aren't you ever going to forgive me?" "You hurt my feelings excruciatingly. because I wanted to meet you so much." "Why did you turn your back on me at the Christmas ball?" "that was over a year ago." "It was a deliberate humiliation." "Anne Shirley." "You and Diana Barry." "can we be friends now?" "if you're so clever." "wait a minute." "Everyone will think I've drowned." "We thought you were dead." "It was all our fault." "how did you ever escape?" "I climbed underneath the bridge and Gilbert Blythe came along and rowed me to shore." "how romantic!" "Of course you'll speak to him from now on." "Of course I will not!" "Jane Andrews." "but it certainly isn't appreciated in Avonlea." "I'm sorry I frightened everyone so." "It was all my fault." "I'm sure that John Barry will be pleased" "Anne Shirley." "girl." "When are you going to have any sense?" "I think my prospects are brightening." "I just saw the pass list for Queens." "for first." "Anne." "You must be so proud." "Anne." "Marilla." "Far be it from me to be backwards when praise is due." "You're a credit to us all and we're all proud of you." "Woap." "Miss Cuthbert." "Good afternoon." "I'm Gilbert Blythe." "Yes." "You've grown into quite a young man." "you must be very proud of Anne." "It's a real challenge keeping up with her at school." "Matthew and I are both proud." "She has the talent to make something of herself." "Gilbert." "Good afternoon." "ma'am." "Anne?" "I've decided to give The Highwayman." "It's very pathetic." "but I prefer to make people cry." "Are you nervous?" "even though I've stood out in public so often." "But I feel very well-prepared and that helps." "this organdy will look elegant under the electric lights at the White Sands Hotel." "mother tried to convince me to audition for a violin solo." "Can you imagine?" "I haven't picked up a bow in three years. but I am not prepared to suffer humiliation for it." "We're all amateurs." "They may be very sorry they've asked any of us to do it when it's all over." "Anne." "you can do no wrong in this community." "Someone ought to tell that to Marilla." "Mr. Cuthbert is sure proud." "He plunks down his money awful quick these days for anything I tell him is pretty and fashionable." "Alice Lawson!" "You devil!" "Don't you go abusing Matthew's generosity to me." "You do have good taste though." "I'll see you at the concert." "Anne." "Whoa." "Can I offer you a ride home?" "You promised we were going to be friends." "Remember?" "All right then." "It is rather awkward with all these." "It was good of you to stop." "Seems I'm developing quite a habit of getting you out of awkward situations." "Gilbert. it was very rude of me to just run off like that." "our score." "I wasn't myself." "anyway." "It's valiant of you to say so." "You'll go far with that kind of attitude." "Anne?" "I intend on taking my teacher's license in one year like Miss Stacy suggested." "I was imagining you would have a career on the stage." "especially as the Lily Maid." "I hear you're giving The Highwayman at the White Sands recital." "My life is an open book I see." "Who told you that?" "I have a little confession to make." "I was just at the Lawson's myself and Alice told me you were walking home." "I'm going to try to get you an encore while you're up there so make sure you have a second selection ready." "No one is going to encore me." "I would." "Especially if I had the honor of escorting you to the concert." "but" "Anne." "I've always been old enough to make up my own mind." "Gilbert." "I'd be pleased to accept your invitation." "please." "I'm going to take a shortcut and show Diana what I bought." "Matthew." "She was holding his hand." "She'd have to hold his hand if he was helping her out of the buggy." "What was she doing in that buggy?" "Nothing worth all this fussing." "Matthew." "She doesn't know what she's doing." "Hello everyone." "Sorry I was late." "Matthew." "I've just been informed by a reliable source that you were seen at Avonlea crossroads in a buggy with a young man." "Marilla!" "He only offered me a ride home." "He was just being friendly." "Not according to Rachel Lynde." "Rachel Lynde?" "Yes." "Rachel Lynde saw you." "she ain't done nothing wrong." "I told you not to put your oar in." "Anne." "please." "I never meant anything to come of all this." "as yet." "you've changed so much." "Grown so tall and so stylish." "You don't belong in Avonlea anymore." "Get lonely I just thinking about it." "You'll be going off into the world to make your way and you don't want to make any ties here that you might come to regret later. always be your Anne." "Anne of Green Gables." "I want you to give this to him." "I regret that I will be unable to attend the White Sands concert with you." "Anne Shirley." "Why won't you go with him?" "Plenty of reasons why I won't go." "I only accepted in first place because he dared me." "I think you owe him an explanation." "I hope you don't ruin your dress driving there in the dust." "It's far too thin for this damp weather." "I'm sorry agreed to it." "Matthew. but those pearls look absolutely ridiculous." "I don't know where you get these silly ideas." "Matthew is proud of the way I look." "Anne!" "Marilla and Matthew." "I mustn't keep them waiting." "mind you keep your dress clear of the wheel." "Anne!" "I'll be watching for you both." "Gilbert gave me this in return for your note." "He's coming to watch you anyway." "I didn't want Jane or Gabby Brothers to see me." "...to your own opinion. if you still consider me your friend." "Gilbert Blythe." "Diana." "He doesn't understand." "Tell him I'll speak to him the first minute I can steal away tonight." "Anne." "I'm so ashamed." "I can't go up on that stage." "I can't." "I'll be merciless if I fail." "Anne Shirley." "Go on." "Ho!" "ho!" "the breakers roared Lashed close to a drifting mast." "The salt tears in her eyes. like the brown sea-weed" "On the billows fall and rise." "In the midnight and the snow! On the reef of Norman's Woe!" "Mrs. Evans has just completed a European tour." "she's a prodigious talent." "I was moved beyond words." "I would like to offer our indebtedness to Mrs. Amelia Evans for gracing us with such a stirring performance in support of today's benefit." "Thank you. who achieved the highest standing in the recent entrance examinations to Queens Academy" "Miss Anne Shirley." "It will be amusing to see what arises from the local amateur actors." "The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees." "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. up to the old inn-door." "But I shall return with the yellow gold before the morning light though hell should bar the way." "With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high." "Blood-red were his spurs in the golden noon wine-red was his velvet coat" "When they shot him down on the highway. with the bunch of lace at his throat." "Encore!" "Encore!" "you were splendid." "Go back." "Go back they're encoring you." "you can." "I have to admit I was so proud." "Your recitation was as magnificent as Mrs. Evans" "I saw you fawning over Anne Shirley." "you sure couldn't get up there and give a recital like that." "I could be up there on stage." "Josie Pye ...was with the lovely titian hair." " Whatever that means." "it's just a fancy way of saying it." "he thought you were wonderful anyway." "won't you?" "There are so many people waiting to meet our young Miss Shirley. but there is someone I absolutely must speak with." "I'll return right away." "I promise." "I have important people waiting." "Gilbert!" "Gilbert!" "Anne." "if you want." "Diana." "Some things just aren't meant to be." "Did you see all those diamonds?" "I wish I were rich and I could spend my whole summer at a hotel eating ice-cream and chicken salad." "Diana?" "We are rich." "and we both have wonderful imaginations." "We should be as happy as queens." "Look at that!" "You couldn't enjoy it's loveliness anymore if you had ropes of diamonds." "I don't know about that." "I'm content with my string of pearls." "Matthew gave them to me with as much love as ever went into any of those stuffy women's jewels." "and nothing is going to hold me back." "Anne." "Do you think the train is going to wait for you?" "Matthew." "It'll be easier if I go quickly by myself." "Getting emotional over nothing." "Nothing?" "You both mean everything to me." "too." "All aboard!" "Matthew." "She'll be gone so long." "She'll get terrible lonesome." "we'll get terrible lonesome." "I can't help wishing that she'd stayed a little girl." "I guess." "it was Providence." "He knew we needed her." "Even with her queer little ways." "I loved her for them." "I like people who make me like them." "Saves me so much forcing myself to like them." "but I'd be a much happier woman if you stayed at Beechwood with me." "Miss Barry." "I know it's impractical." "You need to be near the school." "The lady who runs this boarding house is a gentle woman of reduced circumstances." "Peter. looking out over the street." "I'm sure." "now." "I've had dozens of students and not lost one of them yet." "just let me know." "Thank you." "I can't cheer up." "I don't wanna cheer up." "I'd rather just be miserable." "Those of you who have elected to complete the program for the teacher's license but you're here because we know you're capable of doing it." "These first two weeks will be a probationary period in which you can decide whether you really want to complete the program in a single year." "these first two weeks will be the most important you spend at Queens." "Bear that in mind." "Anne Shirley!" "You look positively ill." "you just seem red all over." "how are the first year students doing?" "Our French professor is a dream." "He's the cutest mustache." "Come for lunch and I'll tell all." "I'm meeting Jane and Ruby and some others." "but I have other business to attend to." "if that's what's worrying you." "Whatever do you mean? I've decided to completely ignore him." "there are far more dashing young men around here anyway." "I'm amazed that Gilbert could even insult you." "Anne!" "We've been looking all over for you." " What's second year class like?" "I don't know anyone." "I wish you people had decided to go into second." "Second?" "I'll be lucky if I pass first." "I don't care if I don't pass." "My father can afford to send me back." "Frank Stafford told me that the graduate that receives the highest mark in English Lit. this year wins the Avery scholarship" "$250 a year for four years." "Are you sure?" "Anne." "I don't know." "This is a much bigger pond we are swimming in now than in Avonlea." "Will you two goody-goodies control yourselves." "There's a lot more to do around here than keeping your nose in the book." "Come on." "you have been here one week and already you are planning to take an arts degree from Redmond College." "I fully intend to win that Avery scholarship if hard work can do it. except perhaps myself." "But my ambition was for money." "God knows I've succeeded." "I've never really considered money. though I can hardly believe I'm saying so." "Wealth can be very empty when you don't have someone to share it with." "no one would have me except men who wanted my money more than I did." "are you?" "Not with you in town! then?" "mind you." "And what about young men in that circle of friends? I shall probably end up an old maid." "I didn't mean that." "It isn't all bad." "A married woman could never be as cantankerous as I am free to be." "But it's not a circumstance I'd recommend for you." "Anne-girl." "All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it." "May I leave this for Gilbert Blythe?" "miss." "He's across the hall." "Thank you." "Gilbert winner of the Avery scholarship?" "Don't be too sure." "It hardly seems possible that the term is almost over." "I've almost lost track of time. they are all there is in the world. whether I fail in geometry or not." "I think I'd rather it didn't go on if I failed." "very much." "Anne." "She sounds unhappy." "cheer up Anne." "You have to win at least one of the awards." "I'm not sure I care anymore." "That's a fine attitude after all the work you've put in!" "I have no hope for the Avery." "Everyone has practically said that Emily Clay is getting it." "then." "I'm not going to look at the bulletin board." "I'm going to go straight to the girls' dressing room." "I'll come find you then." "Jane." "and don't sympathize. winner of the gold metal!" "Yeah!" "winner of the Avery!" "hurray!" "winner of the Avery!" "Yeah!" "Isn't that breath of mint delicious?" "I can't bear the thought of leaving here again." "Four long years." "Anne." "More likely married to a dashingly handsome young man and too busy with babies to be interested in your former bosom friend." "Such as who?" "Moody?" "I'll pray that someone wonderful comes to Avonlea and sweeps you off your feet." "Gilbert's getting the Avonlea school you know" "He isn't going to college?" "His father can't afford to send him so he's going to earn his way." "Did you ever explain to him?" "Some books are better left on the shelf." "though." "He's a determined young man." "he's fair game." "Diana Barry!" "why didn't you ever say so?" "So I thought my bosom friend was in love with him." "In love with Gilbert Blythe?" "Me?" "you." "Gilbert did say that being smart was better than being pretty." "sweet Diana." "Goodnight Anne." "Matthew!" "Matthew!" "What is it?" "I'm All right." "Matthew." "You need help." "We've got to get a doctor." "I've worked hard all my life." "I'd rather just drop in the harness." "I never noticed." "I could have spared you in so many ways." "I never wanted a boy." "I only wanted you from the first day." "Don't ever change." "I love my little girl." "I'm so proud of my little girl." "don't." "We have stood here in to see the meaning in his life." "But the mystery of death prevails." "All we know is that we are troubled in our hearts that this evidence of death comes to all of us. and we commend his soul to Jesus." "Miss Cuthbert." "Anne." "I'm very sorry for your loss." "Gilbert Blythe." "now." "dear." "It won't bring him back." "for a little while." "Tears don't hurt like the ache does." "I know I've been strict with you." "I don't know what I'd do if you'd never come." "But you mustn't think that I don't love you as much as Matthew did. but" "you're like my own flesh and blood now." "It's not right to cry so." "God knows best." "but he was always such a kind brother to me." "We have each other now." "Yes." "Yes." "Miss Cuthbert." "And how is Green Gables holding up these days?" "pretty well." "I haven't seen you around these parts much lately. you know what I mean." "This sure is a lovely piece of countryside." "It is that." "People in Avonlea say it's the prettiest acreage on the north shore." "Matthew kept up this place impeccably." "You don't want to let it get run down at all." "Decreases the value." "Now may be a good time to consider selling if you want to get the highest value for your property." "I can't deny that the thought has crossed my mind." "You could certainly retire on what I am prepared to offer you for the place." "Mr. Sadler." "What did Mr. Sadler want?" "He once offered to buy Green Gables and he's still interested." "Buy Green Gables?" "Marilla!" "I don't know what else to do." "My eyesight is getting weaker." "Dr. Spencer says that if the" "I might lose it completely." "What if I can't run this place?" "Rachel has kindly offered to let me live with her." "But you can't sell Green Gables!" "I would go crazy if there was trouble and I was all alone here" "I'm sorry that you won't have a home to come to on your vacations." "I never thought I'd live to see the day when I would sell this place." "we'll survive somehow." "You won't have to stay here alone." "I'm not going to Redmond." "What do you mean?" "I'm not going to take that scholarship." "but I hadn't told you yet. and I'm going to take the school at Carmody." "They need a teacher and I'm sure they'd be glad to have me. and then I'll board and come home on the weekends." "I won't let you sacrifice your education for me." "Anne Shirley." "I am going to do it." "I'm sixteen years old and just as stubborn as you are." "You blessed girl. but I've learned better than to stand in your way." "too." "Won't he?" "Yes." "What a nice looking young boy he is." "He looks a lot like his father did at that age." "he and I." "People called him my beau." "And what happened?" "We quarreled and I wouldn't forgive him when he asked me to." "but I was stubborn and I wanted to punish him first." "He never came back." "always felt rather sorry." "sort of wished that" "I'd forgiven him when I had a chance." "Anne." "and off the Redmond the next. cramming their heads full of Latin and Greek." "Rachel. teaching over at Carmody and looking after Green Gables?" "talk some sense to the girl." "and leave her alone." "Anne thrives on studying." "that's all there's to it." "Pride goes before the fall." "Whoa." "Anne." "Mr. Blythe?" "Miss Cuthbert said I could find you here." "Open it." "We would be prepared to agree to your proposal to engage Miss Shirley under contract for one year in the post of teacher at Avonlea Public School." "That's your post?" "I took the liberty of speaking to the trustees about an exchange." "I'll be getting Carmody and you can stay at Green Gables." "I don't know what to say." "Don't say anything." "You'd have to pay for your board." "You'll never save enough for college." "You can't" "I'll save enough." "I'm keeping up my courses by correspondence." "So am I." "Gilbert." "It's very good of you and I want you to know that I appreciate it." "and I'll call it a fair exchange." "Aren't you worried I'm liable to break another slate over your head? Carrots." "I'll walk you home."