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Люси Мод Монтгомери. Anne of Avonlea / Энн из Эвонли
Chapter I. An Irate Neighbor
Chapter II. Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure
Chapter III. Mr. Harrison at Home
Chapter IV. Different Opinions
Chapter V. A Full-fledged Schoolma’am
Chapter VI. All Sorts and Conditions of Men… and women
Chapter VII. The Pointing of Duty
Chapter VIII. Marilla Adopts Twins
Chapter IX. A Question of Color
Chapter X. Davy in Search of a Sensation
Chapter XI. Facts and Fancies
Chapter XII. A Jonah Day
Chapter XIII. A Golden Picnic
Chapter XIV. A Danger Averted
Chapter XV. The Beginning of Vacation
Chapter XVI. The Substance of Things Hoped For
Chapter XVII. A Chapter of Accidents
Chapter XVIII. An Adventure on the Tory Road
Chapter XIX. Just a Happy Day
Chapter XX. The Way It Often Happens
Chapter XXI. Sweet Miss Lavendar
Chapter XXII. Odds and Ends
Chapter XXIII. Miss Lavendar’s Romance
Chapter XXIV. A Prophet in His Own Country
Chapter XXV. An Avonlea Scandal
Chapter XXVI. Around the Bend
Chapter XXVII. An Afternoon at the Stone House
Chapter XXVIII. The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace
Chapter XXIX. Poetry and Prose
Chapter XXX. A Wedding at the Stone House
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A tall, slim girl, “half-past sixteen,” with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.
But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrison’s house like a great white mountain, was far away in a delicious world where a certain schoolteacher was doing a wonderful work, shaping the destinies of future statesmen, and inspiring youthful minds and hearts with high and lofty ambitions.
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“Six past… they’re twins.”
“Oh, I’ve always been especially interested in twins ever since Mrs. Hammond had so many,” said Anne eagerly. “Are they pretty?”
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