But for Anne, Green gables is a dream come true. Anne Shirley, an orphan, arrives at Green Gables by mistake the Cuthberts wanted a boy. “The sweetest creation of childlike yet written” – Mark TwainSince it was first published on 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been treasured by millions of readers around the world. “Anne of Green Gables” was published in 1908, and is in the public domain.ITEM: NB0391 Categories: Children 8-12, Children and Teen, Top Picks Tags: Children 8-12, Children and Teen, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Nimbus Publishing, Paperback Anne of Green Gables Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian novelist. Procure (verb): to acquire with much effort Servitor (noun): one who attends the needs of another Prescribe (verb): to order someone to use or do something Then something happened not at all romantic. Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods, across the road, and down to the lower headland where, as Lancelot and Guinevere and the King, they were to be in readiness to receive the lily maid.įor a few minutes Anne, drifting slowly down, enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full. The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process. You know Elaine `lay as though she smiled.’ That’s better. “We must kiss her quiet brows and, Diana, you say, `Sister, farewell forever,’ and Ruby, you say, `Farewell, sweet sister,’ both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can. A white lily was not obtainable just then, but the effect of a tall blue iris placed in one of Anne’s folded hands was all that could be desired. Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute. It’s silly for Elaine to be talking when she’s dead.” “It spoils the effect because this is hundreds of years before Mrs. Lynde says that all play-acting is abominably wicked.” Do you suppose it’s really right to act like this? Mrs. “Oh, she does look really dead,” whispered Ruby Gillis nervously, watching the still, white little face under the flickering shadows of the birches. The black shawl having been procured, Anne spread it over the flat and then lay down on the bottom, with closed eyes and hands folded over her breast. That old black shawl of your mother’s will be just the thing, Diana.” We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite. We can’t have the old dumb servitor because there isn’t room for two in the flat when one is lying down. But first you must be the brothers and the father. “Ruby, you must be King Arthur and Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot. “Well, I’ll be Elaine,” said Anne, yielding reluctantly, for, although she would have been delighted to play the principal character, yet her artistic sense demanded fitness for it and this, she felt, her limitations made impossible. They had often gone down like this and nothing could be more convenient for playing Elaine. The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond. Those days, she said, were so much more romantic than the present.Īnne’s plan was hailed with enthusiasm. They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot. They had studied Tennyson’s poem in school the preceding winter, the Superintendent of Education having prescribed it in the English course for the Prince Edward Island schools. It was Anne’s idea that they dramatize Elaine. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreĬhapter XXVIII – An Unfortunate Lily Maid (an excerpt) Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()
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