Anne's House of Dreams. L. M. Montgomery
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Название: Anne's House of Dreams

Автор: L. M. Montgomery

Издательство: Bookwire

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СКАЧАТЬ CHAPTER 25

       THE WRITING OF THE BOOK

       CHAPTER 26

       OWEN FORD'S CONFESSION

       CHAPTER 27

       ON THE SAND BAR

       CHAPTER 28

       ODDS AND ENDS

       CHAPTER 29

       GILBERT AND ANNE DISAGREE

       CHAPTER 30

       LESLIE DECIDES

       CHAPTER 31

       THE TRUTH MAKES FREE

       CHAPTER 32

       MISS CORNELIA DISCUSSES THE AFFAIR

       CHAPTER 33

       LESLIE RETURNS

       CHAPTER 34

       THE SHIP O'DREAMS COMES TO HARBOR

       CHAPTER 35

       POLITICS AT FOUR WINDS

       CHAPTER 36

       BEAUTY FOR ASHES

       CHAPTER 37

       MISS CORNELIA MAKES A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT

       CHAPTER 38

       RED ROSES

       CHAPTER 39

       CAPTAIN JIM CROSSES THE BAR

       CHAPTER 40

       FAREWELL TO THE HOUSE OF DREAMS

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

      "Thanks be, I'm done with geometry, learning or teaching it," said Anne Shirley, a trifle vindictively, as she thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat down upon it, looking at Diana Wright across the Green Gables garret, with gray eyes that were like a morning sky.

      The garret was a shadowy, suggestive, delightful place, as all garrets should be. Through the open window, by which Anne sat, blew the sweet, scented, sun-warm air of the August afternoon; outside, poplar boughs rustled and tossed in the wind; beyond them were the woods, where Lover's Lane wound its enchanted path, and the old apple orchard which still bore its rosy harvests munificently. And, over all, was a great mountain range of snowy clouds in the blue southern sky. Through the other window was glimpsed a distant, white-capped, blue sea—the beautiful St. Lawrence Gulf, on which floats, like a jewel, Abegweit, whose softer, sweeter Indian name has long been forsaken for the more prosaic one of Prince Edward Island.

      Diana Wright, three years older than when we last saw her, had grown somewhat matronly in the intervening time. But her eyes were as black and brilliant, her cheeks as rosy, and her dimples as enchanting, as in the long-ago days when she and Anne Shirley had vowed eternal friendship in the garden at Orchard Slope. In her arms she held a small, sleeping, black-curled creature, who for two happy years had been known to the world of Avonlea as "Small Anne Cordelia." Avonlea folks knew why Diana had called her Anne, of course, but Avonlea folks were puzzled by the Cordelia. There had never been a Cordelia in the Wright or Barry connections. Mrs. Harmon Andrews said she supposed Diana had found the name in some trashy novel, and wondered that Fred hadn't more sense than to allow it. But Diana and Anne smiled at each other. They knew how Small Anne Cordelia had come by her name.

      "You always hated geometry," said Diana with a retrospective smile. "I should think you'd be real glad to be through with teaching, anyhow."

      "Oh, I've always liked teaching, apart from geometry. These past three years in Summerside have been very pleasant ones. Mrs. Harmon Andrews told me when I came home that I wouldn't likely find married life as much better than teaching as I expected. Evidently Mrs. Harmon is of Hamlet's opinion that it may be better to bear the ills that we have than fly to others that we know not of."

      Anne's laugh, as blithe and irresistible as of yore, with an added note of sweetness and maturity, rang through the garret. Marilla in the kitchen below, compounding blue plum preserve, heard it and smiled; then sighed to think how seldom that dear laugh would echo through Green Gables in the years to come. Nothing in her life had ever given Marilla so much happiness СКАЧАТЬ