Just stayed a little girl inside. What do I smell? interrupted Carl, sniffing. They all smelled it now. A most delectable odour came floating up on the still evening air from the direction of the litt...
If he had preached like Peter and Paul it would have profited him nothing, for that was the day old Caleb Ramsay's sheep strayed into church and gave a loud 'ba-a-a' just as h
Face. Walter reeled a little. The pain of the blow tingled through all his sensitive frame for a moment. Then he felt pain no longer. Something, such as he had never experienced before, seemed to
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Emotion. It was all absurd—she had been a silly, romantic, inexperienced goose. Well, she would be wiser in the future—very wise—and very discreet—and very contemptuous of men and their ways. I suppos...
Don’t let’s ever be afraid of things. It’s such dreadful slavery. Let’s be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let’s dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble...
Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a
Buried Miss Cornelia and Mary Vance came up to Ingleside. There were several things concerning which Miss Cornelia wished to unburden her soul. The funeral had to be all talked over, of course. Susan...
As I was when I was getting married myself. I felt exactly like a bride again last evening when I was up on the hill seeing
Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them into everything, does it?
Young Johnny Booth was to have been married yesterday, but he couldn't be because he's gone and got the mumps. Wasn't that like a man?
You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned. Miss
You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no w...
You can’t have many exclamation points left, thought Anne, but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible. This
Whiskers says that he will believe the stories of German atrocities when he sees them, and that it is a good thing that Rangs Cathedral has been destroyed because it was a Roman Catholic church. Now,...
When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different—something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitte...
When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. Anne of Green Gables
What if you never meet him?Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means.Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an o...
What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.
What a splendid day!' said Anne, drawing a long breath. 'Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, bu...