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I foresee that I shall have my hands full. Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble.
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and Jerry and I--round and round the world. Listen-- listen--can't you hear his wild music?" The girls shivered. "You know you're only pretending," protested Mary Vance, "and I wish you wouldn't."
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Eh, alta speranta spulberata. Viata mea este un cimitir al sperantelor spulberate. Este o propozitie pe care am citit-o intr-o carte candva si mi-o repet de carte ori simt nevoia sa-mi ridic moralul, atunci cand sunt dezamagita. - Eu nu vad in asta nimic care sa-ti ridice moralul. - Ba da! Din cauza ca suna atat de frumos si de romantic, ca si cand as fi o eroina dintr-o carte, stiti. Imi plac atat de mult lucrurile romantice, si un cimiti..
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I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying, `Excuse me, you mustn't mind it. . .it's just a habit I've got.' You'd think he was crazy, wouldn't you?
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was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along.
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Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little of it is a good thing -- not too much, of course -- but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it. "
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April came tiptoeing in beautifully that year with sunshine and soft winds for a few days; and then a driving northeast snowstorm dropped a white blanket over the world
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It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em,
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Carl had the clear, bright, dark-blue eyes, fearless and direct, of his dead mother, and her brown hair with its glints of gold. He knew the secrets of bugs and had a sort of freemasonry with bees and beetles. Una never liked to sit near him because she never knew what uncanny creature might be secreted about him. Jerry refused to sleep with him because Carl had once taken a young garter snake to bed with him; so Carl slept in his old cot, ..
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I am rather interested in Millicent Drew's case myself. I never had a beau, much less two, and I do not mind now, for being an old maid does not hurt when you get used to it. Millicent's hair always looks to me as if she had swept it up with a broom. But the men do not seem to mind that." "They see only her pretty, piquant, mocking, little face, Susan." "That may very well be, Mrs. Dr. dear."
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What do I smell?" interrupted Carl, sniffing. They all smelled it now. A most delectable odour came floating up on the still evening air from the direction of the little woodsy dell below the manse hill. "That makes me hungry," said Jerry. "We had only bread and molasses for supper and cold ditto for dinner," said Una plaintively. Aunt Martha's habit was to boil a large slab of mutton early in the week and serve it up every day, cold and gr..
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All the many familiar things that had once made life sweet had a flavour of bitterness now. Norman Douglas made periodical irruptions also, bullying and coaxing Ellen by turns. It would end, Rosemary believed, by his dragging Ellen off with him some day, and Rosemary felt that she would be almost glad when it happened. Existence would be horribly lonely then, but it would be no longer charged with dynamite. She was roused from her unpleasan..
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And so," said Miss Cornelia, "the double wedding is to be sometime about the middle of this month." There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening, so Anne had lighted her ever ready fire of driftwood in the big living room, and she and Miss Cornelia basked in its fairy flicker. "It is so delightful--especially in regard to Mr. Meredith and Rosemary," said Anne. "I'm as happy in the thought of it, as I was when I was gett..
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Oh, aren't you glad it is spring? The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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Their charmed circle would be broken; and, in spite of the jollity of their little festival, there was a hint of sorrow in every gay young heart.
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was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial wind came piping down the red harbour road along which Miss Cornelia's comfortable, matronly figure was making its way towards the village of Glen St. Mary.
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You have the whole world at your doorstep here," said John Meredith, with a long breath. "What a view--what an outlook! At times I feel stifled down there in the Glen. You can breathe up here."
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I think a great deal of those dogs," she said proudly. "They are over a hundred years old, and they have sat on either side of this fireplace ever since my brother Aaron brought them from London fifty years ago. Spofford Avenue was called after my brother Aaron." --
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And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
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I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed,
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It was nearly as long as a minister's and so poetical.
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into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
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She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?
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They were all there, squatted in the little open glade--Faith and Una, Jerry and Carl, Jem and Walter, Nan and Di, and Mary Vance. They had been having a special celebration, for it would be Jem's last evening in Rainbow Valley. On the morrow he would leave for Charlottetown to attend Queen's Academy. Their charmed circle would be broken; and, in spite of the jollity of their little festival, there was a hint of sorrow in every gay young he..
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There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening, so Anne had lighted her ever ready fire of driftwood in the big living room, and she and Miss Cornelia basked in its fairy flicker. "It is so delightful--especially in regard to Mr. Meredith and Rosemary," said Anne. "I'm as happy in the thought of it, as I was when I was getting married myself. I felt exactly like a bride again last evening when I was up on the hill seeing ..
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And, like all female creatures, you form your opinions by your feelings. Well, hope for your thrilling career--but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you--then someone else." "Oh, no, I wouldn't like that." "Then be content with fewer thrills."
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Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
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What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.
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can never get used to the way you mention the--the--that name," complained Felicity. "To hear you speak of the Old Scratch any one would think he was just a common person."
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