Anne of Green Gables - Argentina

1 The Project Gutenberg EBook of Anne Of Green Gables , by Lucy Maud MontgomeryThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at : Anne Of Green GablesAuthor: Lucy Maud MontgomeryRelease Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #45]Last Updated: January 8, 2013 Last updated: February 22, 2014 Language: English** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANNE OF Green Gables **Produced by Charles Keller, and David WidgerANNE OF Green GABLESBy Lucy Maud MontgomeryCONTENTSANNE OF Green GABLESCHAPTER I.

2 Mrs. Rachel Lynde is SurprisedCHAPTER II. Matthew Cuthbert is surprisedCHAPTER III. Marilla Cuthbert is SurprisedCHAPTER IV. Morning at Green GablesCHAPTER V. Anne's HistoryCHAPTER VI. Marilla Makes Up Her MindCHAPTER VII. Anne Says Her PrayersCHAPTER VIII. Anne's Bringing-up Is BegunCHAPTER IX. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly HorrifiedCHAPTER X. Anne's ApologyCHAPTER XI. Anne's Impressions of Sunday-SchoolCHAPTER XII. A Solemn Vow and PromiseCHAPTER XIII. The Delights of AnticipationCHAPTER XIV. Anne's ConfessionCHAPTER XV.

3 A Tempest in the School TeapotCHAPTER XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic ResultsCHAPTER XVII. A New Interest in LifeCHAPTER XVIII. Anne to the RescueCHAPTER XIX. A Concert a Catastrophe and a ConfessionCHAPTER XX. A Good Imagination Gone WrongCHAPTER XXI. A New Departure in FlavoringsCHAPTER XXII. Anne is Invited Out to TeaCHAPTER XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of HonorCHAPTER XXIV. Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a ConcertCHAPTER XXV. Matthew Insists on Puffed SleevesCHAPTER XXVI.

4 The Story Club Is FormedCHAPTER XXVII. Vanity and Vexation of SpiritCHAPTER XXVIII. An Unfortunate Lily MaidCHAPTER XXIX. An Epoch in Anne's LifeCHAPTER XXX. The Queens Class Is OrganizedCHAPTER XXXI. Where the Brook and River MeetCHAPTER XXXII. The Pass List Is OutCHAPTER XXXIII. The Hotel ConcertCHAPTER XXXIV. A Queen's GirlCHAPTER XXXV. The Winter at Queen'sCHAPTER XXXVI. The Glory and the DreamCHAPTER XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is DeathCHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the roadANNE OF Green GABLESCHAPTER I.

5 Mrs. Rachel Lynde is SurprisedMrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringedwith alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woodsof the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier coursethrough those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde'sHollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.

6 RachelLynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks andchildren up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she hadferreted out the whys and wherefores are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbor'sbusiness by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatureswho can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

7 She was a notablehousewife; her work was always done and well done; she "ran" the Sewing Circle, helped run theSunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign MissionsAuxiliary. Yet with all this Mrs. Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window,knitting "cotton warp" quilts she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont totell in awed voices and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound upthe steep red hill beyond.

8 Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulfof St. Lawrence with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass overthat hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel's all-seeing was sitting there one afternoon in early June. The sun was coming in at the window warm andbright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummedover by a myriad of bees. Thomas Lynde a meek little man whom Avonlea people called "RachelLynde's husband" was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and MatthewCuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables .

9 Knew that he ought because she had heard him tell Peter Morrison the evening before inWilliam J. Blair's store over at Carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon. Peterhad asked him, of course, for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information aboutanything in his whole yet here was Matthew Cuthbert, at half-past three on the afternoon of a busy day, placidlydriving over the hollow and up the hill; moreover, he wore a white collar and his best suit of clothes,which was plain proof that he was going out of Avonlea; and he had the buggy and the sorrel mare,which betokened that he was going a considerable distance.

10 Now, where was Matthew Cuthbert goingand why was he going there?Had it been any other man in Avonlea, Mrs. Rachel, deftly putting this and that together, might havegiven a pretty good guess as to both questions. But Matthew so rarely went from home that it must besomething pressing and unusual which was taking him; he was the shyest man alive and hated to haveto go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk. Matthew, dressed up with a whitecollar and driving in a buggy, was something that didn't happen often.