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They knew all the spots their mother had loved so well in her girlhood, at old Green Gables—the long lover's lane that was pink-hedged in wild rose-time. |
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Good morning, Sagittarian. Get out of bed. |
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He sucked in on the air around him, and the breath burned in his lungs. |
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Captain Jim had often talked to Anne of Lost Margaret since he had told her the old story. His love for her trembled in every tone, that love that had never grown faint or forgetful. |
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So that is how you bring up your boys," said Gilbert with mock severity. |
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He spent an hour rigging up a portable saw to use in attempting to cut off a smaller piece of the sky. |
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Ever so slowly the enormous block of stone began to move while the rope stood tighter. |
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you believe that?" asked Nan scornfully. I don't. |
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Like most of the world, Dave had regarded the big man who was his uncle with something close to worship. |
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Where in hell am I? he asked. Or when? |
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Susan said it served me right for sitting up in the cold garret yesterday writing poetry trash. But she started up the kitchen fire and got me a hot water bottle and it stopped the two things. |
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Oh, Marilla, look at his dear darling toes! Isn't it strange that they should be so perfect? |
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Well, what other place is there to go?" demanded Mary in a puzzled voice. |
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To attain the art of a sather is the work of a score of centuries usually. |
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won't eat a single thing for a whole day," said Jerry. I'm kind of curious to see what fasting is like anyhow. This will be a good chance to find out." |
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sweet little Una, of whom Cecilia had begged him to take such special care. |
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Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle than had ever been fought in the world. |
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haven't heard them yet." "Nevertheless," Sathercarf answered firmly, "we agree."" |
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Oh, Anne! That night in April when Gilbert told me he thought Dick might be cured! I can never forget it. It seemed to me that I had once been a prisoner in a hideous cage of torture, and then the door had been opened and I could get out. |
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The two sisters met in the Dahlia walk. St. George sat down on the gravel walk between them and folded his glossy black tail gracefully around his white paws with all the indifference of a well-fed, well-bred, well-groomed cat. |
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But we all love you, Anne. Captain Jim has been up every day to ask for you, and Mrs. Moore haunts the place, and Miss Bryant spends most of her time, I think, cooking up nice things for you. |
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The words Sather Carff had been intoning came to a sudden stop, even before they could be drowned in the shouts of shock and panic from the others. |
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Whatever was going on, he was in no shape to interrupt anything. |
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Is there anybody else of your acquaintance who can afford to hang his walls with banknotes for pictures? He asked. |
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We use electronic ones now, but the results are the same. |
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The dual is closed even to the seri. Anyhow, it's not your space-time, though some say it's your world. |
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Her mouth and lips were so dry she could hardly articulate the words. Suddenly Carl gasped. |
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I don't have enough to do to keep me out of mischief these days. I'll be real glad when school opens, for then I'll have something to do again. Mary doesn't want to go to school, but I put my foot down and said that go she must." |
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He had a tolerable knack of fiddling, which all appreciated save the first mate, who sprang from the sofa as if he had been shot, emitted a shriek of protest, and fled wildly up the stairs. |
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Oh, Miss Cornelia! Now you needn't Miss Cornelia me, Anne, dearie. Anybody would have thought the same. If the Montreal doctors can make a rational creature out of Dick Moore, they're wonders. |
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Rosemary West, that man has a notion of courting you. |
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is the matter with Harrison Miller anyway?" said Anne impatiently. He is always driving some one to extremes. |
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I walked the shore last night, almost till dawn, and thrashed it all out over and over again. |
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But they were out, and when Anne re-entered her house of dreams the red embers were still glowing on the hearth, and all the haunting presences were gone. |
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Do the others? Do Faith and the boys have the same idea you had about stepmothers? |
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But we have come back very well satisfied with our own land. Canada is the finest country in the world, Miss Cornelia. |
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and she must live on here, petting and soothing Dick, pinching and saving for mere existence, while I spend my life longing vainly for her, and debarred by that very fact from even giving her the little help of friend-mind. |
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The house changes to-morrow, if the sky permits, and we shall shield you until then. |
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Chapter 5 of Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery. |
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Is it not funny nobody ever asked me to marry him, Mrs. Dr. Dear? I am no beauty, but I am as good-looking as most of the married women you see. But I never had a beau." |
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End of chapter 11 |
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Yes, we are, dearie. Thank goodness we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are and be thankful if there are no penitentiary birds among them. |
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When the Hopetown authorities wrote to Mr. Meredith to send Mary to them without delay, Mary cried herself to sleep in the manse attic that night and Una found a desperate courage. The next evening she slipped away from the manse to the harbor road. |
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Faith flounced around to the veranda, where she found Una grieved in spirit because the Clowgirls had not waved to her, either. |
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wear them she certainly would not. They were still unworn in her bureau drawer. |
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He said he could see things in them, said Captain Jim slowly. |
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She does care, and he knows it," thought Anne. |
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Oh, this is a moment worth living through weeks of storm and stress for," Anne exclaimed, delightedly sending her far gaze across the tossing waters from the top of the cliff where she stood. |
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I go this way Mrs. Blythe. You will come over and see me sometime won't you? |
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He thought of calling Sir Perth or Sather Carff, but there was no time for that, and they could hardly have heard him over the sounds of the desperate fight going on. |
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When I was a girl I lacked many things my schoolmates had, but I never cared. I never disliked them for it. But I seemed to have grown so hateful. |
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One of the corpses that fell back from the risings added a word to what the others had said. |
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In April there were blue waters and a windy white capped gulf again, and again the four winds light bejammed the twilights. |
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The boys gladly made their escape to outdoors. Una went to help Aunt Martha with the dishes, though that rather grumpy old dame never welcomed her timid assistance, and Faith betook herself to the study, where a cheerful wood fire was burning in the grave. |
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But Marilla could not suppose it. "Do not tell me," said Susan fiercely, answering the anguish in Marilla's eyes, that God could be so cruel as to take that darling lamb for us when we all love her so much." |
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that old garden was haunted. He was heard there at nights moaning and crying. |
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Outwardly, dark green arms keep them in violet from curious or indifferent eyes. |
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Dave felt sick as he stared at the ghastly terror on the face of the corpse. |
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they send for me. I can't talk of it. |
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Mary obeyed, looking literally ghastly with fright. |
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they were overcome with remorse and shame, and felt that they could never be so silly and thoughtless again. |
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The day before Mary's departure from the manse they had a picnic in her honour in Rainbow Valley. And that evening all the manse children gave her something from their scanty store of treasured things for a keepsake. |
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Circe Garm stared upwards in horror. Mars, he croaked, Mars has fallen. Now there can be no conjunction ever. |
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Finally he called a name and a command. There was a sharp explosion, a hissing, and Bork's voice calling. |
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But he'll get there sometime alright, and then he'll laugh at himself. |
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He'd been vaguely worried about the apparent change in Sir Perth, who'd turned from a serious and helpful doctor into a supercilious high-handed fop. |
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They have held on only for your return. |
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Any warmth that was there vanished at his first words. |
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And yet he was sure Sir Perth was serious. There was no humor on the face of the prissy, thin-moustached man before him. |
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Diana Blythe, known as Di, was very like her mother, with grey-green eyes that always shone with the peculiar lustre and brilliancy in the dusk, and red hair. |
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One night by the fireside at the light, Anne saw Captain Jim's life book. He needed no coaxing to show it and proudly gave it to her to read. |
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Come, sit down. It won't take long to stay an hour. |
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there's no use making a fuss over anyone getting hurt," said Faith, tossing her curls. Of course, if you've hurt yourself very bad you have to yell, and blood is messy, and I don't like seeing other people hurt either. But I don't want to run. I want to go to work and help them." |
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Guard yourself, Dave Hanson." So there was to be treachery, Hanson thought. |
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He managed to dig a small hollow in the sand before dropping off to sleep. It was a sleep of total exhaustion, lacking even a sense of time. It might have been minutes or hours that he slept, and he had no way of knowing which. |
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Mary let go for a minute and looked around her. Just inside the gate was a small flake on which half a dozen large codfish were drying. |
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"Hm," the man said in the voice of the first speaker." |
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There were many women in the village who would have been glad to come and help, but Aunt Martha refused to let her plight be known. |
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Yet John Meredith thought he had never seen so beautiful a woman. |
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There were times when everything about you and your house hurt me. You had so many dear little things I couldn't have. |
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The milk of human kindness and the wisdom of the serpent were mingled in his composition in delightful proportions. Nothing ever seemed to put Captain Jim out or depress him in any way. |
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I wanted to see you alone, Mrs. Blythe. There is something I must tell somebody, or I think it will drive me mad. |
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Is it true that you sat out in the graveyard all last Thursday evening and sang ribbled songs while a prayer meeting was being held in the Methodist church? |
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Oh, no, you're not, Mistress Blythe. Oh, no, you're not," said Captain Jim meditatively. |
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Not one word did she reply to his genial greeting, but went silently away to call her father, briefly. |
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Faith heard not a word. She was really not listening to him at all, but she was watching his long black coat-tails with impish delight growing in her brown eyes. |
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Now Faith darling, stop crying and tell us why you did it. |
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and we mortals all shrink from too close contact with God or devil. |
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Well, I must be going, too. Anne and Gilbert discreetly melted away, but when Owen had gone, Anne returned to find Leslie standing by the hearth. |
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He had met her in his church once or twice and shaken hands with her abstractedly as he did with any one he happened to encounter on his way down the aisle. |
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Isn't there something odd about his eyes? Asked Anne. You noticed that. |
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or by true symbolism. A part may be a symbol for the whole. |
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End of chapter 17 |
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winds of change blew over them, the sea called ever to the dwellers on shore, and even those who might not answer its call felt the thrill and unrest and mystery and possibilities of it. |
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When it was over, our world was as it has been for thousands of centuries. In fact, one result was that in theory, neither original world could have a real past, and the fusion was something that had been. No period of change. It's pretty complicated. |
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He is asleep, whispered and tremulously. |
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They're all geared to let the various factors operate at the proper relative rate. |
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And yet in another way I wanted to go over. I felt that if I were not so miserable I could have liked you and found in you what I've never had in my life—an intimate, real friend of my own age. |
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I'll be all ready to answer. I just spoke of this because there's a little favour I want to ask you. There's this poor old matey of mine. Captain Jim reached out a hand and poked the big, warm, velvety golden ball on the sofa. |
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It seems they cannot make out which it is in Harrison's case. There are days when he growls at everybody because he thinks he is foreordained to eternal punishment, and then there are days when he says he does not care and goes and gets drunk. |
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