Anne of Avonlea

Layout 2 CHAPTER I AN IRATE NEIGHBOUR A tall, slim girl, “half-past sixteen,” with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines

Layout 2 CHAPTER II SELLING IN HASTE AND REPENTING AT LEISURE Anne drove over to Carmody on a shopping expedition the next afternoon and took Diana Barry with her. Diana was, of course, a pledged member of the Improvement Society, and the two girls talked about little else all the way to Carmody and

Layout 2 CHAPTER III MR. HARRISON AT HOME Mr. Harrison’s house was an old-fashioned, low-eaved, whitewashed structure, set against a thick spruce grove. Mr.

Layout 2 CHAPTER IV DIFFERENT OPINIONS One evening at sunset, Jane Andrews, Gilbert Blythe, and Anne Shirley were lingering by a fence in the shadow of gently swaying spruce boughs, where a wood cut known as the Birch Path joined the main road. Jane had been up to spend the afternoon with Anne, who

Layout 2 CHAPTER V A FULL-FLEDGED SCHOOLMA’AM When Anne reached the school that morning . . . for the first time in her life she had traversed the Birch Path deaf and blind to its beauties .

Layout 2 CHAPTER VI ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN . . . AND WOMEN A September day on Prince Edward Island hills; a crisp wind blowing up over the sand dunes from the sea; a long red road, winding through fields and woods, now looping itself about a corner of thick set spruces, now threading a plan

Layout 2 CHAPTER VII THE POINTING OF DUTY Anne leaned back in her chair one mild October evening and sighed. She was sitting at a table covered with text books and exercises, but the closely written sheets of paper before her had no apparent connection with studies or school work. “What is the matte

Layout 2 CHAPTER VIII MARILLA ADOPTS TWINS Mrs. Rachel Lynde was sitting at her kitchen window, knitting a quilt, just as she had been sitting one evening several years previously when Matthew Cuthbert had driven down over the hill with what Mrs. Rachel called “his imported orphan.” But that had bee

Layout 2 CHAPTER IX A QUESTION OF COLOUR “That old nuisance of a Rachel Lynde was here again to-day, pestering me for a subscription towards buying a carpet for the vestry room,” said Mr. Harrison wrathfully. “I detest that woman more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, a

Layout 2 CHAPTER X DAVY IN SEARCH OF A SENSATION Anne, walking home from school through the Birch Path one November afternoon, felt convinced afresh that life was a very wonderful thing. The day had been a good day; all had gone well in her little kingdom. St. Clair Donnell had not fought any of the

Layout 2 CHAPTER XI FACTS AND FANCIES “Teaching is really very interesting work,” wrote Anne to a Queen’s Academy chum. “Jane says she thinks it is monotonous but I don’t find it so. Something funny is almost sure to happen every day, and the children say such amusing things. Jane says she punishes

Layout 2 CHAPTER XII A JONAH DAY It really began the night before with a restless, wakeful vigil of grumbling toothache. When Anne arose in the dull, bitter winter morning she felt that life was flat, stale, and unprofitable. She went to school in no angelic mood. Her cheek was swollen and her face

Layout 2 CHAPTER XIII A GOLDEN PICNIC Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad’s Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pix

Layout 2 CHAPTER XIV A DANGER AVERTED Anne, walking home from the post office one Friday evening, was joined by Mrs. Lynde, who was as usual cumbered with all the cares of church and state. “I’ve just been down to Timothy Cotton’s to see if I could get Alice Louise to help me for a few days,” she sa

Layout 2 CHAPTER XV THE BEGINNING OF VACATION Anne locked the schoolhouse door on a still, yellow evening, when the winds were purring in the spruces around the playground, and the shadows were long and lazy by the edge of the woods. She dropped the key into her pocket with a sigh of satisfaction. T

Layout 2 CHAPTER XVI THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR “Anne” said Davy appealingly, scrambling up on the shiny, leather-covered sofa in the Green Gables kitchen, where Anne sat, reading a letter, “Anne, I’m awful hungry. You’ve no idea.” “I’ll get you a piece of bread and butter in a minute,” said

Layout 2 CHAPTER XVII A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS Anne woke three times in the night and made pilgrimages to her window to make sure that Uncle Abe’s prediction was not coming true. Finally the morning dawned pearly and lustrous in a sky full of silver sheen and radiance, and the wonderful day had arrive

Layout 2 CHAPTER XVIII AN ADVENTURE ON THE TORY ROAD “Anne,” said Davy, sitting up in bed and propping his chin on his hands, “Anne, where is sleep? People go to sleep every night, and of course I know it’s the place where I do the things I dream, but I want to know where it is and how I get there a

Layout 2 CHAPTER XIX JUST A HAPPY DAY “After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slippi

Layout 2 CHAPTER XX THE WAY IT OFTEN HAPPENS Anne rose betimes the next morning and blithely greeted the fresh day, when the banners of the sunrise were shaken triumphantly across the pearly skies. Green Gables lay in a pool of sunshine, flecked with the dancing shadows of poplar and willow. Beyond

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXI SWEET MISS LAVENDAR School opened and Anne returned to her work, with fewer theories but considerably more experience. She had several new pupils, six and seven year olds just venturing, round-eyed, into a world of wonder. Among them were Davy and Dora. Davy sat with Milty Boult

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXII ODDS AND ENDS “So you had tea at the stone house with Lavendar Lewis?” said Marilla at the breakfast table next morning. “What is she like now? It’s over fifteen years since I saw her last . .

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXIII MISS LAVENDAR’S ROMANCE “I think I’ll take a walk through to Echo Lodge this evening,” said Anne, one Friday afternoon in December. “It looks like snow,” said Marilla dubiously. “I’ll be there before the snow comes and I mean to stay all night. Diana can’t go because she has c

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXIV A PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY One May day Avonlea folks were mildly excited over some “Avonlea Notes,” signed “Observer,” which appeared in the Charlottetown Daily Enterprise. Gossip ascribed the authorship thereof to Charlie Sloane, partly because the said Charlie had indulged