Anne of Avonlea - L. M. Montgomery

of the yard they saw her busily wielding a broom in the hall. “I’ve always heard that Mrs. Theodore ...

Anne asked for a subscription he agreed enthusiastically. “Certain, certain. Just put me down for ...

VII The Pointing of Duty Anne leaned back in her chair one mild October evening and sighed. She was sitting at ...

mind about things. He has always gone to men before and he says girl teachers are no good. Well, we’ll ...

him.” The mention of college gave a new direction to Gilbert’s thoughts, and they talked for a time of their ...

anxiously. ...

“No. I’m only tired . . . and worried. It’s about Mary and those children . . . Mary is wor ...

Wiggins’. Mrs. Lynde says that Mr. Wiggins sells everything off the place that can be sold and brings his ...

VIII Marilla Adopts Twins Mrs. Rachel Lynde was sitting at her kitchen window, knitting a quilt, just as she h ...

neck and gave her a bear-like hug. “I don’t believe you mean it,” he said, smacking her wr ...

much to be desired. “I’m so hungry I ain’t got time to eat p’litely,” he said when Marilla reproved hi ...

were as roguish and dancing as an elf’s. Dora’s nose was straight, Davy’s a positive snub; Dora had a “p ...

Lauretta White was sitting in front of Davy, her head slightly bent and her fair hair hanging in two lon ...

“I told him he might,” said Marilla wearily. “I thought it would keep him out of worse mischief. He can ...

Davy. “But I’d like you better still if you weren’t so naughty.” “I . . . did something else today,” we ...

IX A Question of Color “That old nuisance of a Rachel Lynde was here again today, pestering me for a ...

must excuse me, Anne. I’ve got a habit of being outspoken and folks mustn’t mind it.” “But they can ...

folks here will call him so. I never was much of a talker till I came to Avonlea and then I ...

Diana Barry, Jane Andrews, and Anne Shirley, despair personified, at the yard gate of Green Gables, und ...

color of the paint. Joshua Pye, when thus animadverted upon, retorted that the Avonlea taste in colo ...