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Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty,
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.
- Whittier  | |
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to my former teacher,
Hattie Gordon Smith
in grateful rememberance
of her sympathy and encouragement | |
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A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil. | |
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"If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!" Eliza was sewing patchwork, not because it was needed but simply as a protest against the frivolous lace Catherine was crocheting. "It does people good to have to do things they don't like … in moderation." - - Mr. Harrison "I was just trying to write out some of my thoughts, as Professor Hamilton advised me, but I couldn't get them to please me. They seem so stiff and foolish directly they're written down on white paper with black ink. Fancies are like shadows… you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things…" "… You must excuse me, Anne. I've got a habit of being outspoken and folks mustn't mind it."
"But they can't help minding it. And I don’t think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying 'Excuse me, you mustn't mind it … it's just a habit I've got.' You'd think he was crazy, wouldn't you?" | |
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see Wikipage Anne of Avonlea for a list of ISBNs that have been verified as belonging to the unabridged version of the novel. | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources.  Wikipedia in English
None ▾LibraryThing members' description ▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553213148, Paperback)
At sixteen Anne is grown up. . . almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behavior of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:51:13 -0500) (see all 6 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions Anne, at 16, is teaching at the Avonlea school. (summary from another edition) » see all 16 descriptions |
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