Anne of Avonlea - L. M. Montgomery

might have been expected after six weeks of dry weather. “Oh, I do wish it would rain soon,” sig ...

like Uncle Charles’ at Newbridge, and that is their pantry window. The shade isn’t down, so if we climbe ...

Diana searched faithfully but no axe was to be found. “I’ll have to go for help,” she said, returning to t ...

was quite out of the question. Finally the rain ceased, the sun came out, and Diana ventured across the pudd ...

glad it’s smashed, for maybe now Martha will agree to having it taken down. She never would before fo ...

well that ends well.’” “We’re not home yet,” said Diana rather pessimistically, “and there’s ...

XIX Just a Happy Day “After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days ...

heard Grandma tell her before she left that she wasn’t to give me any shortcake because it was too rich fo ...

because I tell her what I think about things sometimes.” “It is a rather dangerous practice,” admitted ...

about the shortbread.” As a result of the “consultation,” Mary Joe cut the shortbread and added a dish of preser ...

one. Dare ain’t no such ting as fairies.’ I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there ar ...

“But I want you to like me the same way,” pouted Davy. “You can’t like different people the same ...

approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answ ...

Spencer’s good example and plant ornamental trees and hedges along their road fronts Avonlea will be the pre ...

disagreeable things, and I never mean to again, or else I can’t comfortably tell my pupils not to do it. ...

XX The Way It Often Happens Anne rose betimes the next morning and blithely greeted the fresh day, when the ...

“And you told Minnie May Barry the other day, when you found her crying ‘cause some one said she was u ...

one occasion the entire skin had peeled off her nose but the freckles remained. A few days previously she ha ...

them while she hastened out to help Priscilla unharness her horse. “It’s dreadful to come upon you s ...

“Wash it off,” said Diana practically. “Perhaps it won’t wash off. First I dye my hair; then I ...