We are schoolmates, I see, he said, smiling at Anne's colors. That ought to be sufficient introduction. My name is Royal Gardner.
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed, just
There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening, so Anne had lighted her ever ready fire of driftwood in the big living room, and she and Miss Cornelia basked in its fairy flicker. I...
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of co...
If I wasn’t ME who’d I be?
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
Marilla, what if I fail!''You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.
Marilla, isn’t niece to think that to-morrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? I’ll warrant you’ll make plenty in it said Marilla. I never saw your beat for making mistakes, Anne. Yes, and well...
Marilla loved the [more grown up] girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss.
Man-like, said Miss Cornelia,
What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.
What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?
Bohemian—a respectable sort of tramp.
I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our...
Lawful heart, did any one ever see such freckles? And hair as red as carrots!
When you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while—and
Flower breaths
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