No. Faith never believed Mary Vance. I was dreadfully foolish to believe her, either. Faith loves you already—she has loved you ever since poor Adam was eaten. And Jerry and Carl will think it is joll...
Mr. Meredith won't get any other housekeeper because he says it would hurt Aunt Martha's feelings. Anne dearie, believe me, the state of that manse is something terrible. Everything is thick with dust...
Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They're ringing for peace--and new happiness--and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss...
It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet.
I'm sure I'll like studying history after this, said Emily; except Canadian History. I'll never like it--it's so dull. Not just at the first, when we belonged to France and there was plenty of fightin...
I wish I could like the baby a little bit. It would make things easier. But I don't. I've heard people say that when you took care of a baby you got fond of it—but you don't—I don't, anyway.
I will keep faith, Walter, she said steadily. I will work and teach and learn and laugh, yes, I will even laugh through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed...
I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment.
I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin...
Cornelia's comfortable, matronly figure was making its way towards the village of Glen St. Mary. Miss Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen yea...
Can I help you? said Jane.Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, What is the matter? But Jane always wanted to...
At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.
All the many familiar things that had once made life sweet had a flavour of bitterness now. Norman Douglas made periodical irruptions also, bullying and coaxing Ellen by turns. It would end, Rosemary...
All that supported her through the boredom of her days was the hope of going on a dream spree at night.
All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, i...
A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
And it was so nice to see her again and have a long talk over old times. Her sister Em was there, too, with such a delicious baby. You talk as if it was something to eat, grunted Mrs. Gibson. Babies a...
And I have such a cold in the head—I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you?