Anne's House of Dreams

thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat do

; beyond them were the woods, where Lover's Lane wound its enchanted path, and the old apple orchard which still bore its rosy harvests munificently. And, over all, was a great mountain range of snowy clouds in the blue southern sky. Through

en at Orchard Slope. In her arms she held a small, sleeping, black-curled creature, who for two happy years had been known to the world of Avonlea as "Small Anne Cordelia." Avonlea folks knew why Diana had called her Anne, of course, but Avonlea folks were puzzled by the Cordelia. There had nev

retrospective smile. "I should think you'd be

mon Andrews told me when I came home that I wouldn't likely find married life as much better than teaching as I expected. Evident

to think how seldom that dear laugh would echo through Green Gables in the years to come. Nothing in her life had ever given Marilla so much happiness as the knowledge that Anne was going to marry Gilbert Blythe; but

s matron. "Married life has its ups and downs, of course. You mustn't expect that everything will alway

na's airs of vast experienc

been married four years," she thought. "Surely m

he inimitable gesture of motherhood which always sent through Anne's heart, filled with sweet, un

By the way, I can't realize that we really have telephones in Avonlea now. It sound

enough cold water thrown to discourage any society. But they stuck to it, nevertheless. You did a splendid thing for Avonlea when you founded that society,

eep up with the procession, that's what.' But somehow I feel as if I didn't want Avonlea spoiled by what Mr. Harrison, when he wants to be witty, calls 'modern inconveniences.' I should like to have it kept always just as it was in the dear old years. That's fooli

drews insisted that their 'phone should be put in their kitchen just so that she could listen whenever it rang and keep an eye on the dinner at

as you had spoken. I suppose it was the Pye receiver being hung up with profane energy. Well, never mind the Pyes. As Mrs. Rachel says, 'Pyes they alw

re? I do hope

bert is going to settle at Four W

d," sighed Diana. "I never can get fur

fifty years. He is Gilbert's great-uncle, you know. He is going to retire, and Gilbert is to take over his practice. Dr. Blythe is going to keep his house, though, so we shall have to find a

g for your wedding

cendingly that people who can't afford wedding 'towers' are real sensible not to take them; and then she'll remin

ded not to have

a march on me in the matter of marriage; and Stella is teaching in Vancouv

ear a veil, aren't you?

foreign missionary did. I had an idea then that foreign missionaries couldn't afford to be finicky in the matter of looks if they wanted a girl to risk her life among cannibals. You should have seen the foreign missionary Priscilla married.

l look like a perfect queen in it-you're so tall and slender. How DO you

drews can't say to you what she said to me when I came home from Summerside, 'Well, Anne, you're just ab

s nice as Jane's, although she says Jane married a millionaire and yo

lau

er had-the brown gloria Matthew gave me for our school concert. Before that everyt

, 'There's another, NOT a sister.' And you were so furious because he put your pink tissu

of predestination," laughed Anne, a