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...
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,...
CHAPTER XXXII Tea with Mrs. Douglas On the first Thursday night of Anne's sojourn in Valley Road Janet asked her to go to prayer-meeting. Janet blossomed out like a rose to attend that...
CHAPTER XXVI Around the Bend Thomas Lynde faded out of life as quietly and unobtrusively as he had lived it. His wife was a tender, patient, unwearied nurse. Sometimes Rachel had been a little hard on...
CHAPTER XXV Enter Prince Charming "I'm contrasting the claims of indoors and out," said Anne, looking from the window of Patty's Place to the distant pines of the...
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...