Rainbow Valley (Unabridged). Lucy Maud Montgomery

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       Lucy Maud Montgomery

      Rainbow Valley

      (Unabridged)

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       [email protected] 2018 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-272-4082-1

      Table of Contents

       I. Home Again

       II. Sheer Gossip

       III. The Ingleside Children

       IV. The Manse Children

       V. The Advent of Mary Vance

       VI. Mary Stays at the Manse

       VII. A Fishy Episode

       VIII. Miss Cornelia Intervenes

       IX. Una Intervenes

       X. The Manse Girls Clean House

       XI. A Dreadful Discovery

       XII. An Explanation And A Dare

       XIII. The House on the Hill

       XIV. Mrs. Alec Davis Makes A Call

       XV. More Gossip

       XVI. Tit for Tat

       XVII. A Double Victory

       XVIII. Mary Brings Evil Tidings

       XIX. Poor Adam!

       XX. Faith Makes A Friend

       XXI. The Impossible Word

       XXII. St. George Knows All About It

       XXIII. The Good-Conduct Club

       XXIV. A Charitable Impulse

       XXV. Another Scandal and Another “explanation”

       XXVI. Miss Cornelia Gets A New Point Of View

       XXVII. A Sacred Concert

       XXVIII. A Fast Day

       XXIX. A Weird Tale

       XXX. The Ghost on the Dyke

       XXXI. Carl Does Penance

       XXXII. Two Stubborn People

       XXXIII. Carl Is — Not — Whipped

       XXXIV. Una Visits the Hill

       XXXV. “Let the Piper Come”

      I. Home Again

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      It 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 sandbar, 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. Miss Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss Cornelia than as Mrs. Elliott. The old name was dear to her old friends, only one of them contemptuously dropped it. Susan Baker, the gray and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her “Mrs. Marshall Elliott,” with the most killing and pointed emphasis, as if to say “You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned.”

      Miss Cornelia was going up to Ingleside to see Dr. and Mrs. Blythe, who were just home from Europe. They had been away for three months, having left in February to attend a famous medical congress in London; and certain things, which Miss Cornelia was anxious to discuss, had taken place in the Glen during their absence. For one thing, there 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.

      Susan Baker and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat’s light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick wall of the lawn.

      Anne was sitting on the steps, her hands clasped over her knee, looking, in the kind dusk, as girlish as a mother of many has any right to be; and the beautiful gray-green eyes, gazing down the harbour road, were as full of unquenchable sparkle and dream as ever. Behind her, in the hammock, Rilla Blythe was curled up, a fat, roly-poly little creature of six years, the youngest of the Ingleside children. She had curly red hair and hazel eyes that were now buttoned up after the funny, wrinkled fashion in which Rilla always went to sleep.

      Shirley, “the little brown boy,” as he was known in the family “Who’s Who,” was asleep in Susan’s arms. He was brown-haired, browneyed