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       Lucy Maud Montgomery

      ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

      (Anne Shirley Saga)

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      2018 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-4554-3

      Table of Contents

       I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised

       II. Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised

       III. Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised

       IV. Morning at Green Gables

       V. Anne’s History

       VI. Marilla Makes Up Her Mind

       VII. Anne Says Her Prayers

       VIII. Anne’s Bringing-Up Is Begun

       IX. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified

       X. Anne’s Apology

       XI. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-School

       XII. A Solemn Vow and Promise

       XIII. The Delights of Anticipation

       XIV. Anne’s Confession

       XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot

       XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea With Tragic Results

       XVII. A New Interest in Life

       XVIII. Anne to the Rescue

       XIX. A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession

       XX. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong

       XXI. A New Departure in Flavorings

       XXII. Anne Is Invited Out to Tea

       XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor

       XXIV. Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert

       XXV. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves

       XXVI. The Story Club Is Formed

       XXVII. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit

       XXVIII. An Unfortunate Lily Maid

       XXIX. An Epoch in Anne’s Life

       XXX. The Queens Class Is Organized

       XXXI. Where the Brook and River Meet

       XXXII. The Pass List Is Out

       XXXIII. The Hotel Concert

       XXXIV. A Queen’s Girl

       XXXV. The Winter at Queen’s

       XXXVI. The Glory and the Dream

       XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is Death

       XXXVIII. The Bend in the Road

      I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised

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      Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.

      There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbor’s business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain. She was a notable housewife; her work was always done and well done; she “ran” the Sewing Circle, helped run the Sunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary. 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 to tell in awed voices — and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond. Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular

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