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1 A surprise for the Cuthberts
Matthew Cuthbert lived with his sister Marilla on their farm on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Their farmhouse, Green Gables, was just outside the little hamlet of Avonlea. Matthew was nearly lx and had a long brown beard. His sister was five years younger. They were both tall and thin, with dark hair. Everybody in Avonlea knew that the Cuthberts were quiet people who worked very hard on their farm.
1 afternoon Matthew drove the horse and cart to the station. "Has the five-xxx train arrived yet?" he asked the station-principal.
"Yes," the human being replied. "And there's a passenger who's waiting for you. A little girl."
"A petty girl?" asked Matthew. "Only I've come up for a boy! The children's home is sending u.s. one of their orphan boys. Nosotros're going to adopt him, you see, and he's going to help me with the farm work."
"Well, perchance the children's dwelling house didn't accept any boys, and then they sent yous a girl," answered the station-master carelessly. "Here she is."
Matthew turned shyly to speak to the child. She was about eleven, with long cerise hair in two plaits. Her face was small, white and thin, with a lot of freckles, and she had large grayness-greenish optics. She was wearing an onetime brown hat and a dress which was also pocket-sized for her.
"Are you lot Mr Cuthbert of Green Gables?" she asked excitedly in a loftier, sweet voice. "I'm very happy to come and live with you, and belong to you. I've never belonged to anyone, you meet. The people at the children's abode were very kind, just it'southward not very exciting to live in a place similar that, is it?"
Matthew felt sorry for the kid. How could he tell her that it was all a fault? Only he couldn't just get out her at the station. He decided to have her abode with him. Marilla could explicate the mistake to her.
He was surprised that he enjoyed the journey home. He was a quiet, shy man, and he didn't similar talking himself. But today, he simply had to mind, because the little daughter talked and talked and talked.
She told him all most herself while they drove along.
"My parents died when I was a baby, you know, and for the concluding three years I've had to work for my nutrient. I've lived with iii unlike families and looked subsequently their children. So I've always been poor, and I haven't got any nice dresses! But I merely imagine that I'g wearing the most beautiful blueish dress, and a big hat with flowers on, and bluish shoes, and then I'k happy! Practise you imagine things sometimes?"
"Well, I … I … not often," said Matthew.
They were at present driving by some very former apple copse next to the road. The trees were full of sugariness-smelling, snowy-white flowers. The little daughter looked at them.
"Aren't the trees beautiful?" she said happily. "Only am I talking besides much? Delight tell me. I tin can finish if necessary, you know."
Matthew smiled at her. "Y'all get on talking," he answered. "I like listening to you."
When they arrived at Greenish Gables, Marilla came to the door to run into them. But when she saw the little daughter, she cried in surprise, "Matthew, who's that? Where's the male child?"
"The children's home has made a mistake," he said unhappily, "and sent a daughter, not a male child."
The kid was listening carefully. Suddenly she put her head in her easily and began to weep.
" You – you don't want me! " she sobbed. "Oh – oh! You don't want me considering I'thousand non a boy!"
"Now, now, don't weep," said Marilla kindly.
"Don't you lot understand? Oh! This is the worst thing that'southward happened to me in all my life!"
"Well, you can stay here, just for this night," said Marilla. "At present, what'due south your name?"
The kid stopped crying. "Volition you please call me Cordelia?" she asked.
"Call you Cordelia? Is that your name?"
"Well, no, it isn't, just information technology'due south a very beautiful name, isn't it? I like to imagine my name is Cordelia, because my real proper name is Anne Shirley – and that's not a very interesting name, is it?"
Marilla shook her head. "The child has too much imagination," she thought.
Later, when Anne was in bed, Marilla said to her brother, "She must go back to the children's dwelling house tomorrow."
"Marilla, don't you call up… " began Matthew. "She'south a nice lilliputian affair, you know."
"Matthew Cuthbert, are y'all telling me that you desire to continue her?" asked Marilla crossly.
Matthew looked uncomfortable. "Well, she'southward clever, and interesting, and —"
"But nosotros don't demand a girl!"
"But possibly she needs us," Matthew replied, surprisingly quickly for him. "She's had a very unhappy life up to now, Marilla. She can help y'all in the house. I can get a male child from the village to aid me on the farm. What exercise you think?"
Marilla thought for a long time. "All right," she said in the end, "I agree. The poor child tin can stay. I'll look later her."
Matthew smiled happily. "Be every bit skillful and kind to her as yous can, Marilla. I remember she needs a lot of love."
2 At Green Gables
And so the next morning Marilla said, "Well, Anne, Matthew and I have decided to keep y'all, only if you're a good girl, of course. Why, kid, what's the matter?" "I'm crying," sobbed Anne, "because I'k very happy! It'southward beautiful here! People say I'm very bad, but I'll attempt very hard to be proficient. Oh, thank you lot! Thank you!"
"Now stop crying, child," said Marilla a piddling crossly, "and listen. Nosotros're going to adopt you, and send yous to schoolhouse afterward the summer holidays."
Anne stopped crying. "Can I call you Aunt Marilla? I've never had any family unit at all, and then I'd really similar to have an aunt. We could imagine that you're my mother'southward sister."
"I couldn't," answered Marilla firmly.
"Don't yous imagine things?" asked Anne, surprised.
"No, I don't," Marilla replied. "I practise my housework, and look after Matthew, and become to church on Sunday. In that location'south no time for imagining things in this house. Only recall that, Anne."
Anne was silent for a few minutes. Then she said, "Marilla, practise y'all think I'll find a best friend in Avonlea? Someone who really understands me and knows all my secrets. I've ever wanted a friend like that."
"Our friends, the Barrys, have a girl called Diana, who'southward eleven, like you. But if y'all want to play with her, you'll take to be very good. Mrs Barry is very careful virtually Diana's friends."
"Diana! What a beautiful name!" said Anne excitedly. "Her hair isn't red, is it? I hope it isn't." She looked sadly at her red plaits. "I hate my hair."
"Diana has dark hair. She's a good, clever girl. Try to be like her, Anne."
When the two girls met, they knew at once that they would be practiced friends. They often played together, in the fields, or by the river, or in the garden. In the morning Anne helped Marilla with the housework. So in the afternoon she played with Diana, or talked happily to Matthew while he worked on the farm. She soon knew and loved every blossom, tree, and animal at Green Gables.
The Cuthberts had another friend, Mrs Rachel Lynde. She liked to know everything that was happening in and effectually Avonlea. She was very interested in the Cuthberts' little orphan girl, and then one day she visited Marilla.
"I was very surprised to hear nearly the child," she told Marilla. "So y'all and Matthew take adopted her!"
"I'm surprised myself," answered Marilla with a smile. "But she's a clever little thing, you know. And she'south always dancing, or singing, or laughing."
Mrs Lynde shook her head sadly. "What a mistake, Marilla! You've never had any children yourself, so how can you lot expect after her?"
But then Anne ran in from the garden. She stopped of a sudden when she saw a stranger in the kitchen. Mrs Lynde looked at the thin picayune girl in the short dress, with her freckled face and cherry-red hair.
"Isn't she sparse, Marilla?" she said. "Only expect at those freckles! And pilus as red equally carrots!"
Anne's face went crimson. She ran upward to Mrs Lynde.
"I detest you lot!" she shouted angrily. "I hate you! Y'all're a horrible, fat old woman!" And she ran upstairs.
"Oh love, oh dear!" said Mrs Lynde. "What a terrible kid! Y'all'll not have an like shooting fish in a barrel fourth dimension with her, Marilla." "You were rude to her, Rachel," Marilla replied, before she could end herself.
"Well!" said Mrs Lynde. She got up and walked to the door. "I retrieve this orphan is more of import to you than I am. When I recollect how long we've been friends … You'll have trouble with her, I can tell you. Well, I'm sad for you, that'south all. Farewell."
Marilla went upstairs to Anne's room. The child was lying on her narrow bed, sobbing loudly.
"Yous mustn't go angry similar that, Anne. Mrs Lynde is my friend, and you were very rude to her."
Anne was lying on her narrow bed, sobbing loudly.
"She was rude to me!" said Anne. "She said I was thin and freckled and cherry-haired. It was very unkind!"
"I understand how y'all feel," said Marilla. "But you must become to her and tell her you're sorry."
"I can never exercise that," said Anne firmly.
"Then you lot must stay in your room and think virtually information technology. You can come out when y'all hold to say that yous're deplorable."
Anne stayed in her room all the next day. Downstairs the house was very serenity without her. That evening, while Marilla was busy in the garden, Matthew went up to Anne's room. The kid was sitting sadly by the window.
"Anne," he said shyly, "why don't you say you lot're sorry? Then you lot can come down, and nosotros tin all be happy."
"I am sorry now," said Anne. "I was very aroused yesterday! Simply do you really want me to … "
"Yes, do, please. It's lone downstairs without you. Only don't tell Marilla I've talked to you lot."
Marilla was pleased to hear that Anne was sorry. Subsequently that evening, when she and Anne were in Mrs Lynde's warm kitchen, Anne all of a sudden fell on her knees.
"Oh Mrs Lynde," cried the little girl, "I'thousand very sorry. I can't tell y'all how sorry I am, so you must only imagine it. I am a bad daughter! But please say you volition forgive me. I'll exist sad all my life if you don't!"
"She'southward enjoying herself!" thought Marilla, watching Anne's face. "She doesn't await sorry at all, but happy and excited!"
Only Mrs Lynde said kindly, "Of course I forgive you." And later she said to Marilla, "Perhaps you're right to keep her. She'southward a foreign trivial thing, but I think I similar her."
three At Avonlea school
When schoolhouse started in September, Anne and Diana walked at that place and back together every day.
"What a beautiful mean solar day," Anne said happily i morning, as the two little girls walked beyond the fields. "I'one thousand very lucky to have you lot equally my best friend, Diana. Yous are my all-time friend, aren't you?"
"Of course, Anne," replied Diana, taking Anne's hand. "And just think, today you'll meet Gilbert Blythe. He's 3 years older than united states of america, and very good-looking. He's just come up dorsum from holiday, and starts schoolhouse today."
"Oh, boys!" said Anne. "I'thousand non interested in them." But she did await at Gilbert when they arrived at schoolhouse. He was a tall boy, with curly dark-brown hair and a friendly smile.
"He is skillful-looking," Anne whispered to Diana, "but why does he grin at me? He doesn't know me!"
Avonlea school was placidity that day. The instructor, Mr Phillips, was helping some of the older children at the back of the schoolroom. Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees, and the silverish blue of the river. She was far away in the world of her imagination. But Gilbert wanted her to look at him. He whispered to her, but she did not move. He was surprised. Girls were commonly very ready to wait at him.
Suddenly he put his arm out, pulled her blood-red plaits, and said in a loud whisper, "Carrots! Carrots!"
Anne jumped up and looked angrily at Gilbert.
"You horrible boy!" she cried. "I hate you!" And then she brought her heavy book down on Gilbert's head.
Mr Phillips heard the noise, and came slowly to the forepart of the schoolroom.
"Anne Shirley, why did you practise that?" he asked. She stayed silent. Gilbert said, "I'm sorry, Mr Phillips. I was rude to her. That's why she hit me." But the teacher did not listen to Gilbert.
"I cannot have bad children in my school," said Mr Phillips firmly. "Anne, go and stand in front of the class." And there Anne stood for the rest of the day, a lonely fiddling girl with a small white angry face.
"I hate Mr Phillips!" she thought. "And I'll never look at or speak to Gilbert Blythe once more!"
The next 24-hour interval some of the school children were playing in a farmer'south field in their lunch hour, so they were a niggling late for afternoon school. Anne ran into the classroom at the same fourth dimension as the boys, just after the teacher.
"You're belatedly, Anne," said Mr Phillips. "You won't sit with Diana today. I see that yous savour being with the boys very much, so go and sit down next to Gilbert this afternoon."
Anne'southward face went white. "He can't mean it!" she thought.
"Did you hear me, Anne?" asked Mr Phillips.
"Yes sir," said Anne and moved slowly to Gilbert'south desk. There she sabbatum down and put her head on the desk-bound, with her artillery over information technology.
"This is the end," she was thinking. "I wasn't the only person who was tardily. And he'southward sent me to sit with a boy. And that male child is Gilbert Blythe!"
The residual of the day went very slowly for Anne. When it was time to leave, she went to her desk, side by side to Diana'southward, and took all her books, pens and pencils with her.
"What are you doing, Anne?" asked Diana.
"I'm not coming dorsum to school," replied Anne firmly. "Oh! But Anne … we're reading a new book next week … and we're playing a new game on Monday, and … It'll be very exciting! And you lot'll miss it, Anne!"
Simply Anne was not interested. "I'm sorry, Diana," was her only respond.
That evening Marilla ran round to Rachel Lynde's house. "Rachel, please assistance me! Anne says she won't get back to schoolhouse. What am I going to say to her?"
Mrs Lynde already knew about Anne'southward troubles at schoolhouse, and she was ever very pleased when people asked her to help. She smiled and saturday back comfortably.
"I've had ten children myself, then I know all about them," she said. "Anne can stay at domicile for a while. She'll want to go back to school again before long, I'm sure."
So Anne stayed at domicile, and only saw Diana in the evenings. She was a child who felt very strongly. She hated Gilbert Blythe, just she really loved Diana.
1 evening Marilla found Anne crying in the kitchen. "What's the matter, child?" she asked in surprise.
"I love Diana very much," sobbed Anne. "I can't live without her, Marilla! Merely what will happen when she marries? I hate her married man already! I tin can imagine her in the church in her long white dress … and so she'll go away! And I'll never come across her again!"
Marilla turned away to hide her smiling face. What a strange, funny child Anne was! Marilla tried not to express mirth, merely she couldn't finish herself.
"You and your imagination, Anne Shirley!" she cried, and she laughed and laughed.
Mrs Lynde was correct, of form. After a few days Anne decided to go back to school. All the children were pleased to see her again, just she did not speak to Gilbert Blythe.
4 More problem for Anne
"I remember I'll ask the new vicar, Mr Allan, and his married woman to tea on Wednesday," said Marilla ane day.
"Oh yes, please exercise!" cried Anne excitedly. "Mrs Allan is young and beautiful, and has a very sweet smiling! Tin can I make a cake for tea? Say aye, Marilla!"
Marilla agreed, and for the next few days Anne planned what she would put in her cake.
"I do hope it's going to be a good one," she told Diana. "Sometimes I forget to put in the right things."
"You made a very practiced 1 concluding week," said her friend. "I'm sure it'll exist all right."
On Wednesday the tea political party started very well.
"These are very adept cakes, Miss Cuthbert," Mrs Allan said to Marilla. "You have been busy."
"Anne made this ane, peculiarly for you, Mrs Allan," replied Marilla.
"Oh well, I must try some," laughed the vicar's wife. Only subsequently the first mouthful there was a very strange await on her face.
"Is anything wrong?" asked Marilla. She ate a piece of Anne'southward cake herself. "Oh! Anne! What have you lot put in this block?" she cried.
"Isn't it … isn't it all right?" asked Anne, her face red.
"All right? It's horrible! Don't try to eat whatsoever more, Mrs Allan. Anne, yous've put my medicine in this block!"
"Oh! I didn't know! It was white, and in a canteen! I thought it was milk!" sobbed Anne. She ran upstairs and brutal on her bed, crying loudly.
But later that evening, when Mr and Mrs Allan went dwelling house, Marilla came to talk to her.
"Oh Marilla!" cried Anne. "Everybody in Avonlea will laugh at me for putting medicine in a block!"
Marilla smiled and touched Anne'southward hot face. "No, they won't, Anne. Mrs Allan wasn't angry, y'all know. She said it was very kind of you to make her a cake, and she's asked you to tea at her house!"
"Oh, then she's forgiven me! She is nice, isn't she?" said Anne thankfully. "Why exercise I get into trouble similar this? Perhaps I won't make any mistakes tomorrow."
Marilla shook her caput, still smiling. "You'll recall of something, Anne. You're very proficient at making mistakes!"
Spring came, with its bright green leaves and early flowers. One April evening Marilla came abode late afterward visiting friends. She found the kitchen empty, and no supper on the table.
"Where'southward Anne?" she idea crossly. "I told her to become the supper prepare." She hurried upstairs to Anne's room, and found the girl sobbing on her bed.
"Don't wait at me, Marilla!" Anne cried. "I know I'm bad, I know I am!"
"What is the affair?" asked Marilla. "Are you ill?" "Oh Marilla, I just want to dice! Look at my hair!" And Marilla saw that Anne's long thick blood-red hair was now a horrible nighttime green.
"Oh Anne!" she said, "What take y'all done now?"
"I … I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door. He said it would modify my hair from ruddy to black! Oh, I know it was stupid of me! Only what shall I do?"
They washed Anne'due south hair again and once more, but it was notwithstanding green. Anne stayed at home for a week, saw nobody, and washed her hair every day. Simply at the finish of the calendar week, Marilla said, "I'm sorry, Anne, we'll take to cutting it all off. You can't go to schoolhouse with greenish hair."
Anne had to hold. "Perhaps this will teach me not to think well-nigh being cute," she said sadly.
Everybody was surprised to see Anne with very brusk pilus, but no one learned the surreptitious. And some weeks later, there were some new, darker red curls, which pleased Anne very much.
That summer Anne and her friends often played in an old boat on the river.
"Today, let's imagine that I'1000 a prisoner and I'm escaping from prison by boat," said Anne. "I'll hide in the gunkhole and the river will acquit it downwardly to the span. Yous're my family, and you must run across me at the bridge."
The other girls agreed, then Anne got into the boat and hid under some coats. Her friends pushed the gunkhole off down the river and ran across the fields to go round to the span. For a few minutes the prisoner enjoyed the game, but and so she suddenly felt moisture and sabbatum up. H2o was coming in very fast through a hole in the bottom of the boat! Luckily, there were some trees past the river and Anne saw a low branch over the water. She jumped up and caught the branch. The boat went on without her and a few seconds later on went down nether the water.
Her friends on the bridge saw the boat, merely they did not see Anne under the tree. "Oh! Oh! Anne's dead! The boat'south gone downward and she'south in the river!" they screamed, and ran back to the village for help.
Poor Anne could not move. She held on and held on, but her artillery were getting tired and she knew that she would fall in a infinitesimal. Suddenly, there was Gilbert Blythe in his boat!
"Anne Shirley!" he cried. "What are y'all doing there?" He did not expect for an respond, merely rapidly helped Anne into his gunkhole. She didn't say a word. When they arrived at the bridge, she got out and turned away.
"Thank yous for helping me," she said coldly.
Only Gilbert jumped out, and put a paw on her arm. "Anne," he said quickly, "I'm sorry I called you lot 'carrots'. It was a long time ago. I think your hair is actually nice now. Can we forget information technology, and exist friends?"
For a 2d Anne wanted to say yes. Only so she remembered continuing alone in front of the schoolhouse children all afternoon, because of Gilbert. She would never forgive him for that! "No," she replied coldly, "I shall never be your friend, Gilbert Blythe!"
"All right!" Gilbert jumped angrily back into his boat. "I'll never inquire you once more, Anne Shirley!"
Anne walked home with her head held high, only she felt strangely sorry, and wanted to cry.
"Why are you always in trouble, Anne ?" asked Marilla, when she heard about Anne's take a chance.
"Well, I recollect I'yard learning, Marilla," answered Anne. "I learn from my mistakes, and after today, I won't utilise my imagination and so much. I don't think Avonlea is the correct place for imagination."
"No, it isn't," agreed Marilla a niggling crossly.
When she went out, Matthew, who was sitting quietly in his corner, whispered to Anne, "Keep a little imagination, Anne, not too much, of form, just a little."
5 Queen's College
1 twenty-four hours Marilla said, "Anne, your new teacher, Miss Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for Queen's College in ii years' time. Then if you do well, yous can written report at Queen's in Charlottetown for a yr, and after that you'll be a teacher!"
"Oh Marilla! I'd love to be a teacher! But won't it exist very expensive?"
"That doesn't matter, Anne. When Matthew and I adopted you lot 3 years ago, we decided to look after you as well every bit we could. Of course we'll pay for you to study."
So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at schoolhouse, and Miss Stacy helped them with the special exam work. Diana didn't desire to become to Queen's, so she went home early, merely Gilbert stayed. He and Anne even so never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies, because they both wanted to exist outset in the examination. Secretly, Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert weren't friends, merely it was too belatedly now.
For two years Anne studied hard at schoolhouse. She enjoyed learning, and Miss Stacy was pleased with her. But she didn't study all the time. In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends, or walked through the fields with Diana, or sat talking to Matthew.
"Your Anne is a big girl now. She'due south taller than you," Rachel Lynde told Marilla one day.
"You're right, Rachel!" said Marilla in surprise.
"And she's a very adept girl now, isn't she? She doesn't get into trouble these days. I'k certain she helps you a lot with the housework, Marilla."
"Yes, I don't know what I'd do without her," said Marilla, grinning.
"And look at her! Those beautiful grey optics, and that ruby-dark-brown hair! You know, Marilla, I thought you and Matthew fabricated a mistake when you lot adopted her. But now I encounter I was wrong. You've looked subsequently her very well."
"Well, thank you, Rachel," replied Marilla, pleased. That evening, when Matthew came into the kitchen, he saw that his sis was crying.
"What's the matter?" he asked, surprised. "Y'all haven't cried since … well, I can't recollect when."
"Information technology'south but … well, I was thinking about Anne," said Marilla. "I'll … I'll miss her when she goes away." "When she goes to Queen's, you mean? Yes, only she tin come domicile at weekends, on the train."
"I'll still miss her," said Marilla sadly.
In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to accept their examinations.
"Oh, I do hope that I've washed well," Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables. "The examinations were very difficult. And I've got to wait for 3 weeks earlier I know! Three weeks! I'll die!"
Anne wanted to do meliorate than Gilbert. Merely she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla. That was very important to her.
Diana was the start to hear the news. She ran into the kitchen at Light-green Gables and shouted, "Look, Anne! It's in Male parent's newspaper! You're outset … with Gilbert … out of all the students on the isle! Oh, how wonderful!" Anne took the paper with shaking easily, and saw her proper name, at the summit of the list of two hundred. She could not speak.
"Well, now, I knew information technology," said Matthew with a warm smile.
"Y'all've done well, I must say, Anne," said Marilla, who was secretly very pleased.
For the next three weeks Anne and Marilla were very decorated. Anne needed new dresses to accept to Charlottetown.
The evening before she left, she put on one of her new dresses to show Matthew. Marilla watched the happy immature face. She remembered the strange, thin petty kid, with her sad eyes, who arrived at Green Gables 5 years agone, and she started crying quietly.
"Marilla, why are you lot crying?" asked Anne.
"I was but thinking of you when you were a little girl," said Marilla. "And … you're going away now … and I'll exist lonely without you."
Anne took Marilla's face in her hands. "Marilla, goose egg will change. Peradventure I'm bigger and older now, merely I'll ever exist your little Anne. And I'll love you and Matthew and Green Gables more every day of my life."
Marilla could non say what she felt, like Anne, just she could show it. She put her arms circular her daughter and held her close to her heart.
And so for the side by side yr Anne lived in Charlottetown, and went to college every day. She sometimes came home at weekends, but she had to study hard. Some of her Avonlea friends were at Queen's too, and also her enemy, Gilbert Blythe. Anne saw that he often walked and talked with other girls. She felt sure that she and Gilbert could take some interesting conversations. But she didn't want to exist the start to speak to him, and he never looked at her.
In that location were examinations at the finish of the higher year, in May. Anne studied very hard for them.
"I'd love to get the outset place," she idea. "Or possibly I could go the Avery prize." This was a prize for the student who was best at English writing, and Anne knew she was good at that. The Avery prize paid for a complimentary place for four years at Redmond College, ane of the best colleges in Canada.
When news of the examinations came, Anne waited for her friends to tell her. She heard shouting. "It's Gilbert! He'southward the first!" She felt ill. But just then she heard another shout. "Anne Shirley'southward got the Avery!" And then all the girls were round her, laughing and shouting.
"Matthew and Marilla will be pleased!" thought Anne. "Now I can go along studying, and they won't take to pay!"
"Anne Shirley'south got the Avery!"
6 Matthew and Marilla
But when she arrived back at Green Gables, Anne knew at once that something was incorrect. Matthew looked much older than before.
"What's the matter with him?" Anne asked Mar ilia. "He'southward had some middle trouble this year," replied Marilla. "He really isn't well. I'k worried about him."
"And you're not looking well, Marilla," said Anne. "Now y'all must rest, while I do the housework."
Marilla smiled tiredly at Anne. "It's not the work, it'due south my head. It often hurts, behind my optics. I must see the physician well-nigh it soon. But another affair, Anne, take you heard anything nigh the Church Depository financial institution?"
"I heard it was having a difficult time."
"All our money is in that bank. I know Matthew'due south worried about it."
The side by side morn a letter of the alphabet came for Matthew. Marilla saw his grey face and cried, "What's the matter, Matthew?" Anne, who was bringing an armful of flowers into the kitchen, saw his face too. Of a sudden, Matthew fell to the ground. Anne dropped her flowers and ran to assistance Marilla. Together they tried everything, but information technology was too late. Matthew was expressionless.
"Information technology was his heart," said the doctor, who arrived a trivial later. "Did he have any bad news suddenly?"
"The letter of the alphabet!" cried Anne. "Shall I run into what's in it? Oh Marilla, look! The Church Bank has had to close down! Your money, and Matthew's, has all gone!"
Everybody in Avonlea was sorry to hear that Matthew was dead. For the beginning fourth dimension in his life, Matthew Cuthbert was an important person.
At showtime Anne couldn't cry. But then she remembered Matthew's smile face when she told him about the Avery prize. All of a sudden she started crying and couldn't terminate. Marilla held her in her arms and they sobbed together.
"Crying can't bring him back," whispered Marilla.
"Nosotros'll accept to acquire to live without him, Anne."
In the next few weeks Anne and Marilla worked hard together on the farm and in the house. Everybody in Avonlea was very kind to them, merely it was a sad fourth dimension.
One day Marilla said, "I'll miss you when you go to Redmond College, Anne. What are the other Avonlea students going to do?"
"Some of them are going to teach, and some are going to stay at Queen'southward."
"Gilbert's going.to teach at Avonlea school, isn't he?" Anne didn't reply, and then Marilla went on. "He's very tall and good-looking at present, don't you recall? Similar his father, John, when he was younger. You know, John and I were very adept friends, years agone."
Anne looked up, interested. "What happened? Why didn't you?"
"Well, nosotros had a fight near something. He asked me to be friends again, only I couldn't forgive him. Afterwards I was lamentable, but he didn't speak to me once again. Perchance we … Oh well, it was a long time agone."
The side by side day Marilla went to run into the doctor. When she came dorsum, she looked very tired and ill.
"What did the md say?" asked Anne worriedly.
"He says I mustn't read or write, and I must wear spectacles. Then my head won't hurt. Just if I'1000 not very careful, I'll be blind in six months!"
For a minute Anne was silent. Then she said firmly, "Then you must be conscientious, Marilla."
"Remember how terrible information technology is to be blind! But how lucky you've got a gratuitous place at Redmond College! I can't give y'all any money, you see. All our money's gone, and I can't work now. I think I'll have to sell the farm, and go and live with Rachel Lynde!" and poor Marilla sobbed wildly.
That night Anne sat alone in her chamber. She idea and thought for some fourth dimension, and so she smiled. When she went to bed, she knew what she was going to do.
The next solar day she explained it all to Marilla.
"Y'all can't sell Green Gables, it's our domicile! Just listen, I've planned everything. I'm not going to Redmond College, it's too far abroad. I'm going to teach, in one of the village schools near hither. So I can live in that location during the week and come up domicile at weekends to await later on you. Diana'south father will use our fields and pay usa for them, and and then we'll take some money. Y'all see?"
"Oh Anne! I'll be all correct if yous're here. Just you must get to Redmond, if you desire to study …"
"Redmond Higher doesn't matter," laughed Anne. "I'm going to study at habitation in the evenings. And I'g going to be a really good instructor! That'south better than anything!"
Marilla shook her head and tried not to cry. "You're a good girl, Anne. Now we can continue Green Gables!"
A few days later Rachel Lynde came to the farm.
"Practise you know," she said, "that Gilbert isn't going to be the Avonlea teacher at present?"
"Isn't he?" cried Anne. "Why non?"
"When he heard that yous wanted to be near Marilla, he decided to teach at a school in some other hamlet. So you can be the Avonlea instructor now."
"Oh!" said Anne, surprised. "That's … that'southward very kind of him."
And that day, when she saw Gilbert by the river, she stopped him and held out her mitt.
"Gilbert," she said shyly, "I … I want to give thanks you. It's very good of y'all. If I'm the Avonlea teacher, I can assistance Marilla much more at home."
"I'1000 happy to help yous, Anne," said Gilbert. He smiled and held her manus firmly. "Are we going to be friends now? Accept you forgiven me for calling you 'carrots'?" Anne laughed. "I forgave you a long fourth dimension ago."
"I'm sure nosotros're going to exist very skillful friends, Anne. Tin I walk domicile with you?"
And when Anne came into the Green Gables kitchen, Marilla said, "Yous look very happy, Anne. Was that Gilbert who was with you merely now?"
"Yes," replied Anne, her confront crimson. "Gilbert and I've decided to be friends. Oh Marilla, I remember life is going to exist adept for all of us! Nosotros'll have to work hard, merely nosotros'll exist happy. And we'll keep our beloved sometime Green Gables! What could exist improve than that!"
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