Anne Of Green Gables

Miss Barry put us in the spare room, according to promise.

Depend upon it, Marilla, she'll cool off in a week or so and be ready enough to go back of her own accord,

True, Anne could not help a little pang when she contrasted her plain black tam and shapeless, tight-sleeved, homemade gray-cloth coat with Diana's jaunty fur cap and smart little jacket.†

...all questions and explanations might as well be deferred until he was safely back at Green Gables.

First the look of despair faded out; then came a faint flush of hope; here eyes grew deep and bright as morning stars.

Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment.

...when Sam Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate "How Sockery Set a Hen" Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea;†

Go into the sitting room, Anne—be sure your feet are clean and don't let any flies in—and bring me out the illustrated card that's on the mantelpiece.†

  "But what does Titian hair mean?"
  "Being interpreted it means plain red, I guess," laughed Anne. "Titian
was a very famous artist who liked to paint red-haired women."†

When the concert was over.... The professional elocutionist, Mrs. Evans, came and chatted with her, telling her that she had a charming voice and "interpreted" her selections beautifully.

In the preceding February he had resigned his charge and departed amid the regrets of his people,

I am resigned to my fate now,

It was nearly dark, for the full November twilight had fallen around Green Gables, and the only light in the kitchen came from the dancing red flames in the stove.