Anne of the Island

Layout 2 CHAPTER I THE SHADOW OF CHANGE “Harvest, is ended and summer is gone,” quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistl

Layout 2 CHAPTER II GARLANDS OF AUTUMN The following week sped swiftly, crowded with innumerable “last things,” as Anne called them. Good-bye calls had to be made and received, being pleasant or otherwise, according to whether callers and called-upon were heartily in sympathy with Anne’s hopes, or t

Layout 2 CHAPTER III GREETING AND FAREWELL Charlie Sloane, Gilbert Blythe and Anne Shirley left Avonlea the following Monday morning. Anne had hoped for a fine day. Diana was to drive her to the station and they wanted this, their last drive together for some time, to be a pleasant one. But when Ann

Layout 2 CHAPTER IV APRIL’S LADY Kingsport is a quaint old town, hearking back to early Colonial days, and wrapped in its ancient atmosphere, as some fine old dame in garments fashioned like those of her youth. Here and there it sprouts out into modernity, but at heart it is still unspoiled; it is f

Layout 2 CHAPTER V LETTERS FROM HOME For the next three weeks Anne and Priscilla continued to feel as strangers in a strange land. Then, suddenly, everything seemed to fall into focus—Redmond, professors, classes, students, studies, social doings. Life became homogeneous again, instead of being made

Layout 2 CHAPTER VI IN THE PARK “What are you going to do with yourselves to day, girls?” asked Philippa, popping into Anne’s room one Saturday afternoon. “We are going for a walk in the park,” answered Anne. “I ought to stay in and finish my blouse. But I couldn’t sew on a day like this.

Layout 2 CHAPTER VII HOME AGAIN “Those first three weeks at Redmond had seemed long; but the rest of the term flew by on wings of wind. Before they realized it the Redmond students found themselves in the grind of Christmas examinations, emerging therefrom more or less triumphantly. The honor of lea

Layout 2 CHAPTER VIII ANNE’S FIRST PROPOSAL The old year did not slip away in a green twilight, with a pinky-yellow sunset. Instead, it went out with a wild, white bluster and blow. It was one of the nights when the storm-wind hurtles over the frozen meadows and black hollows, and moans around the e

Layout 2 CHAPTER IX AN UNWELCOME LOVER AND A WELCOME FRIEND The second term at Redmond sped as quickly as had the first—“actually whizzed away,” Philippa said. Anne enjoyed it thoroughly in all its phases—the stimulating class rivalry, the making and deepening of new and helpful friendships, the gay

Layout 2 CHAPTER X PATTY’S PLACE The next evening found them treading resolutely the herring-bone walk through the tiny garden. The April wind was filling the pine trees with its roundelay, and the grove was alive with robins—great, plump, saucy fellows, strutting along the paths. The girls rang rat

Layout 2 CHAPTER XI THE ROUND OF LIFE Anne was back in Avonlea with the luster of the Thorburn Scholarship on her brow. People told her she hadn’t changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn’t. Avonlea had not changed, either. At least, so it seemed at

Layout 2 CHAPTER XII “AVERIL’S ATONEMENT” “What are you dreaming of, Anne?” The two girls were loitering one evening in a fairy hollow of the brook. Ferns nodded in it, and little grasses were green, and wild pears hung finely-scented, white curtains around it. Anne roused herself from her reverie w

Layout 2 CHAPTER XIII THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS “Davy and Dora were ready for Sunday School. They were going alone, which did not often happen, for Mrs. Lynde always attended Sunday School. But Mrs.

Layout 2 CHAPTER XIV THE SUMMONS Anne was sitting with Ruby Gillis in the Gillis’ garden after the day had crept lingeringly through it and was gone. It had been a warm, smoky summer afternoon. The world was in a splendor of out-flowering. The idle valleys were full of hazes.

Layout 2 CHAPTER XV A DREAM TURNED UPSIDE DOWN “Just one more week and we go back to Redmond,” said Anne. She was happy at the thought of returning to work, classes and Redmond friends. Pleasing visions were also being woven around Patty’s Place. There was a warm pleasant sense of home in the though

Layout 2 CHAPTER XVI ADJUSTED RELATIONSHIPS “It’s the homiest spot I ever saw—it’s homier than home,” avowed Philippa Gordon, looking about her with delighted eyes. They were all assembled at twilight in the big living-room at Patty’s Place—Anne and Priscilla, Phil and Stella, Aunt Jamesina, Rusty,

Layout 2 CHAPTER XVII A LETTER FROM DAVY “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk. I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are. One has time to notice things like

Layout 2 CHAPTER XVIII MISS JOSEPHINE REMEMBERS THE ANNE-GIRL When Christmas holidays came the girls of Patty’s Place scattered to their respective homes, but Aunt Jamesina elected to stay where she was. “I couldn’t go to any of the places I’ve been invited and take those three cats,” she said. “And

Layout 2 CHAPTER XIX AN INTERLUDE “To think that this is my twentieth birthday, and that I’ve left my teens behind me forever,” said Anne, who was curled up on the hearth-rug with Rusty in her lap, to Aunt Jamesina who was reading in her pet chair. They were alone in the living room. Stella and Pris

Layout 2 CHAPTER XX GILBERT SPEAKS “This has been a dull, prosy day,” yawned Phil, stretching herself idly on the sofa, having previously dispossessed two exceedingly indignant cats. Anne looked up from [Pickwick Papers]( Now that spring examinations were over she was treating herself to [Dickens](

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXI ROSES OF YESTERDAY The fortnight Anne spent in Bolingbroke was a very pleasant one, with a little under current of vague pain and dissatisfaction running through it whenever she thought about Gilbert. There was not, however, much time to think about him. “Mount Holly,” the beaut

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXII SPRING AND ANNE RETURN TO GREEN GABLES The firelight shadows were dancing over the kitchen walls at Green Gables, for the spring evening was chilly; through the open east window drifted in the subtly sweet voices of the night. Marilla was sitting by the fire—at least, in body.

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXIII - PAUL CANNOT FIND THE ROCK PEOPLE Life was very pleasant in Avonlea that summer, although Anne, amid all her vacation joys, was haunted by a sense of “something gone which should be there.” She would not admit, even in her inmost reflections, that this was caused by Gilbert’s

Layout 2 CHAPTER XXIV ENTER JONAS “Prospect Point, “August 20th. “Dear Anne—spelled—with—an—E,” wrote Phil, “I must prop my eyelids open long enough to write you. I’ve neglected you shamefully this summer, honey, but all my other correspondents have been neglected, too. I have a huge pile of letters