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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, prepared as a public-domain Orakel edition with 38 chapter-aware companion links.
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CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised
CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised from Anne of Green Gables. MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet,
Open2CHAPTER II. Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised
CHAPTER II. Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised from Anne of Green Gables. MATTHEW Cuthbert and the sorrel mare jogged comfortably over the eight miles to Bright River. It was a pretty road, running along between snug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive through or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom. The air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows sloped away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple;
Open3CHAPTER III. Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
CHAPTER III. Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised from Anne of Green Gables. MARILLA came briskly forward as Matthew opened the door. But when her eyes fell on the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the long braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped short in
Open4CHAPTER IV. Morning at Green Gables
CHAPTER IV. Morning at Green Gables from Anne of Green Gables. IT was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring confusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was pouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across glimpses of blue
Open5CHAPTER V. Anne’s History
CHAPTER V. Anne’s History from Anne of Green Gables. DO you know,” said Anne confidentially, “I’ve made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up firmly. I am not going to think about going back to the asylum while we’re having our drive. I’m just going to think about the drive. Oh, look, there’s one little early wild rose out! Isn’t it
Open6CHAPTER VI. Marilla Makes Up Her Mind
CHAPTER VI. Marilla Makes Up Her Mind from Anne of Green Gables. GET there they did, however, in due season. Mrs. Spencer lived in a big yellow house at White Sands Cove, and she came to the door with surprise and welcome mingled on her benevolent
Open7CHAPTER VII. Anne Says Her Prayers
CHAPTER VII. Anne Says Her Prayers from Anne of Green Gables. “Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about the floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I can’t allow it at all. As soon as you take off any article of clothing fold it neatly and place it on the chair. I haven’t any use at all for little girls who aren’t
Open8CHAPTER VIII. Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun
CHAPTER VIII. Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun from Anne of Green Gables. FOR reasons best known to herself, Marilla did not tell Anne that she was to stay at Green Gables until the next afternoon. During the forenoon she kept the child busy with various tasks and watched over her with a keen eye while she did them. By noon she had concluded that Anne was smart and obedient, willing to work and quick to learn; her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in
Open9CHAPTER IX. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified
CHAPTER IX. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified from Anne of Green Gables. ANNE had been a fortnight at Green Gables before Mrs. Lynde arrived to inspect her. Mrs. Rachel, to do her justice, was not to blame for this. A severe and unseasonable attack of grippe had confined that good lady to her house ever since the occasion of her last visit to Green Gables. Mrs. Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for people who were; but grippe, she asserted, was like no other
Open10CHAPTER X. Anne’s Apology
CHAPTER X. Anne’s Apology from Anne of Green Gables. MARILLA said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening; but when Anne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be made to account for her absence from the breakfast table. Marilla told Matthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of the enormity of Anne’s
Open11CHAPTER XI. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school
CHAPTER XI. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school from Anne of Green Gables. Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed. One was of snuffy colored gingham which Marilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer because it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-white checkered sateen which she had picked up at a bargain counter in the winter; and one was a stiff print of an ugly blue shade which she had purchased
Open12CHAPTER XII. A Solemn Vow and Promise
CHAPTER XII. A Solemn Vow and Promise from Anne of Green Gables. IT was not until the next Friday that Marilla heard the story of the flower-wreathed hat. She came home from Mrs. Lynde’s and called Anne to
Open13CHAPTER XIII. The Delights of Anticipation
CHAPTER XIII. The Delights of Anticipation from Anne of Green Gables. IT’S time Anne was in to do her sewing,” said Marilla, glancing at the clock and then out into the yellow August afternoon where everything drowsed in the heat. “She stayed playing with Diana more than half an hour more ‘n I gave her leave to; and now she’s perched out there on the woodpile talking to Matthew, nineteen to the dozen, when she knows perfectly well she ought to be at her work. And of course he’s
Open14CHAPTER XIV. Anne’s Confession
CHAPTER XIV. Anne’s Confession from Anne of Green Gables. ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room with a troubled
Open15CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot
CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot from Anne of Green Gables. WHAT a splendid day!” said Anne, drawing a long breath. “Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren’t born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one. And it’s splendider still to have such a lovely way to go to school by, isn’t
Open16CHAPTER XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
CHAPTER XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results from Anne of Green Gables. OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry-trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in
Open17CHAPTER XVII. A New Interest in Life
CHAPTER XVII. A New Interest in Life from Anne of Green Gables. THE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad’s Bubble beckoning mysteriously. In a trice Anne was out of the house and flying down to the hollow, astonishment and hope struggling in her expressive eyes. But the hope faded when she saw Diana’s dejected
Open18CHAPTER XVIII. Anne to the Rescue
CHAPTER XVIII. Anne to the Rescue from Anne of Green Gables. ALL things great are wound up with all things little. At first glance it might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian Premier to include Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or anything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables. But it
Open19CHAPTER XIX. A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
CHAPTER XIX. A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession from Anne of Green Gables. MARILLA, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?” asked Anne, running breathlessly down from the east gable one February
Open20CHAPTER XX. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
CHAPTER XX. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong from Anne of Green Gables. SPRING had come once more to Green Gables--the beautiful capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth. The maples in Lover’s Lane were red budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad’s Bubble. Away up in the barrens, behind Mr. Silas Sloane’s place, the Mayflowers
Open21CHAPTER XXI. A New Departure in Flavorings
CHAPTER XXI. A New Departure in Flavorings from Anne of Green Gables. DEAR me, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as Mrs. Lynde says,” remarked Anne plaintively, putting her slate and books down on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red eyes with a very damp handkerchief. “Wasn’t it fortunate, Marilla, that I took an extra handkerchief to school today? I had a presentiment that it would be
Open22CHAPTER XXII. Anne Is Invited Out to Tea
CHAPTER XXII. Anne Is Invited Out to Tea from Anne of Green Gables. AND what are your eyes popping out of your head about. Now?” asked Marilla, when Anne had just come in from a run to the post office. “Have you discovered another kindred spirit?” Excitement hung around Anne like a garment, shone in her eyes, kindled in every feature. She had come dancing up the lane, like a wind-blown sprite, through the mellow sunshine and lazy shadows of the August
Open23CHAPTER XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
CHAPTER XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor from Anne of Green Gables. ANNE had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in
Open24CHAPTER XXIV. Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert
CHAPTER XXIV. Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert from Anne of Green Gables. IT was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school--a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain--amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of
Open25CHAPTER XXV. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves
CHAPTER XXV. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves from Anne of Green Gables. MATTHEW was having a bad ten minutes of it. He had come into the kitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat down in the woodbox corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of the fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice of “The Fairy Queen” in the sitting room. Presently they came trooping through the hall and out into the kitchen, laughing and chattering
Open26CHAPTER XXVI. The Story Club Is Formed
CHAPTER XXVI. The Story Club Is Formed from Anne of Green Gables. JUNIOR Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again. To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks. Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before the concert? At first, as she told Diana, she did not really think she
Open27CHAPTER XXVII. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit
CHAPTER XXVII. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit from Anne of Green Gables. MARILLA, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting, realized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight that spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to the youngest and merriest. Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings. She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for
Open28CHAPTER XXVIII. An Unfortunate Lily Maid
CHAPTER XXVIII. An Unfortunate Lily Maid from Anne of Green Gables. OF course you must be Elaine, Anne,” said Diana. “I could never have the courage to float down
Open29CHAPTER XXIX. An Epoch in Anne’s Life
CHAPTER XXIX. An Epoch in Anne’s Life from Anne of Green Gables. ANNE was bringing the cows home from the back pasture by way of Lover’s Lane. It was a September evening and all the gaps and clearings in the woods were brimmed up with ruby sunset light. Here and there the lane was splashed with it, but for the most part it was already quite shadowy beneath the maples, and the spaces under the firs were filled with a clear violet dusk like airy wine. The winds were out in their
Open30CHAPTER XXX. The Queen’s Class Is Organized
CHAPTER XXX. The Queen’s Class Is Organized from Anne of Green Gables. MARILLA laid her knitting on her lap and leaned back in her chair. Her eyes were tired, and she thought vaguely that she must see about having her glasses changed the next time she went to town, for her eyes had grown tired very often of
Open31CHAPTER XXXI. Where the Brook and River Meet
CHAPTER XXXI. Where the Brook and River Meet from Anne of Green Gables. ANNE had her “good” summer and enjoyed it wholeheartedly. She and Diana fairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the delights that Lover’s Lane and the Dryad’s Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded. Marilla offered no objections to Anne’s gypsyings. The Spencervale doctor who had come the night Minnie May had the croup met Anne at the house of a patient one afternoon early in vacation, looked her over
Open32CHAPTER XXXII. The Pass List Is Out
CHAPTER XXXII. The Pass List Is Out from Anne of Green Gables. WITH the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss Stacy’s rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy’s farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips’s had been under similar circumstances three years before. Diana looked back at the schoolhouse
Open33CHAPTER XXXIII. The Hotel Concert
CHAPTER XXXIII. The Hotel Concert from Anne of Green Gables. They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only twilight--a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless sky. A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood; the air was full of sweet summer sounds--sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, faraway voices and laughter. But in Anne’s room the blind was drawn and the lamp
Open34CHAPTER XXXIV. A Queen’s Girl
CHAPTER XXXIV. A Queen’s Girl from Anne of Green Gables. THE next three weeks were busy ones at Green Gables, for Anne was getting ready to go to Queen’s, and there was much sewing to be done, and many things to be talked over and arranged. Anne’s outfit was ample and pretty, for Matthew saw to that, and Marilla for once made no objections whatever to anything he purchased or suggested. More--one evening she went up to the east gable with her arms full of a delicate pale
Open35CHAPTER XXXV. The Winter at Queen’s
CHAPTER XXXV. The Winter at Queen’s from Anne of Green Gables. ANNE’S homesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her weekend visits home. As long as the open weather lasted the Avonlea students went out to Carmody on the new branch railway every Friday night. Diana and several other Avonlea young folks were generally on hand to meet them and they all walked over to Avonlea in a merry party. Anne thought those Friday evening gypsyings over the autumnal hills in the
Open36CHAPTER XXXVI. The Glory and the Dream
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Glory and the Dream from Anne of Green Gables. ON the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be posted on the bulletin board at Queen’s, Anne and Jane walked down the street together. Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon.
Open37CHAPTER XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is Death
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is Death from Anne of Green Gables. It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word. Anne came through the hall, her hands full of white narcissus,--it was long before Anne could love the sight or odor of white narcissus again,--in time to hear her and to see Matthew standing in the porch doorway, a folded paper in his hand, and his face strangely drawn and gray. Anne dropped her flowers and sprang across the kitchen to him at the same moment as
Open38CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the Road
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the Road from Anne of Green Gables. MARILLA went to town the next day and returned in the evening. Anne had gone over to Orchard Slope with Diana and came back to find Marilla in the kitchen, sitting by the table with her head leaning on her hand. Something in her dejected attitude struck a chill to Anne’s heart. She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like
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