Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery [136]
Anne laughed and tried unsuccessfully to withdraw her hand.
“I forgave you that day by the pond landing, although I didn’t know it. What a stubborn little goose I was. I’ve been—I may as well make a complete confession—I’ve been sorry ever since.”
“We are going to be the best of friends,” said Gilbert, jubilantly. “We were born to be good friends, Anne. You’ve thwarted destiny long enough. I know we can help each other in many ways. You are going to keep up your studies, aren’t you? So am I. Come, I’m going to walk home with you.”
Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen.
“Who was that came up the lane with you, Anne?”
“Gilbert Blythe,” answered Anne, vexed to find herself blushing. “I met him on Barry’s hill.”
“I didn’t think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you’d stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him,” said Marilla, with a dry smile.
“We haven’t been—we’ve been good enemies. But we have decided that it will be much more sensible to be good friends in future. Were we really there half an hour? It seemed just a few minutes. But, you see, we have five years’ lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla.”
Anne sat long at her window that night companioned by a glad content. The wind purred softly in the cherry boughs, and the mint breaths came up to her. The stars twinkled over the pointed firs in the hollow and Diana’s light gleamed through the old gap.
Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!
“‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly.
About the Author
LUCY MAUDE MONTGOMERY (1874–1942) was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the setting for ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. She left to attend college, but returned to Prince Edward Island to teach. In 1911 she married the Reverend Ewan MacDonald. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, the first in a series of “Anne” books by Montgomery, was published in 1908 to immediate success and continues to be a perennial favorite.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in-Publication Data
Montgomery. L.M. (Lucy Maud), 1874–1942.
Anne of Green Gables / LM. Montgomery.
p. cm.
Summary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
ISBN 0-694-01251-3 (book-and-charm pkg.)
[1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Country life—Prince Edward Island—Fiction. 4. Prince Edward Island—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M768An 1999 98-35542
[Fic]—dc21 CIP
AC
First HarperFestival edition, 1999
EPub Edition © May 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-202333-9
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