![]() ![]() They're called "The Royal Family" and you'll have to get I hear there's a new banker in town looking for aīoarding-house and she may prefer him. Rebecca Dew'sĪ good cook and a genius with cold potatoes. Well, Miss Shirley, I hope you'll get there. Whether she meant his staying such a little time or his coming backĪt all. To say that was inconvenient, but we never got it figured out It, though he was seldom home and never stayed long. He planted all the poplars round it and was mighty proud of Rachel Lynde was actually saying it was a "Windy Poplars! It couldn't be true.no it couldn't. ![]() "'You can see them, but it'll be Rebecca who'll really decide Seemed to me if we lost a moment Spook's Lane would vanish back "'Let's go and see them at once,' I implored Mrs. "aunt." They live at the end of Spook's Lane.' Amasa MacComber (she's the Captain's widow) and Aunt Chatty is Braddock, as ifĮverybody, even an ignorant B.A., ought to know that. "'Why, Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty,' said Mrs. "'What widows are you talking about?' demanded Mrs. I ought to milk the red cow but wouldn't believe me on oath Braddock fixed me with a stern eye as if she thought And if Rebecca goes, who is to milk that old They can't afford to keep Rebecca any longer unless a little extra "'I've heard they want a boarder to pay Rebecca Dew's wages. Braddock said she thought 'the widows' might take Was ready to give up in despair.and then, Spook's Lane just Hot and tired and blue and headachy.at least I did. We wandered about the town the whole afternoon and got Of 'being bothered' and wouldn't take me. But, for some unknown reason, she has grown suddenly tired The various principals of the High School for the last fifteen "I did not expect to have much trouble in finding aīoarding-house, for a certain Mrs. Lynde was horrified and my knuckles are sore yet! He was glaring fiercely at me and hadĮvidently just waked up. Gilbert, what I had taken for the arm of a Lilypond desert willow shoulder bag crack#In a second I received a violent crack across them that Leaned my knuckles heavily on what I thought was the shiny arm of a (she was planning to spend Sunday with a friend in Summerside), I "It happened just as the train was coming to a stop at the You know I've always been one to whom adventures came unsought. "We came by train and oh, Gilbert, I had the funniest adventure. Thing who must be guided and directed and overseen. ![]() Lynde still thinks I am an inexperienced young In spite of my Arts courseĪnd my B.A., Mrs. Lynde came with me, ostensibly to do some shopping but really, I "I came up yesterday to look for a boarding-house. Tell you about my new domicile and its inhabitants. So you'll only get that kind of letterįrom me when I have exactly the right kind of pen. I have a scratchy pen and IĬan't write love-letters with a scratchy pen.or a sharp pen.or a stub pen. Going to keep this hour sacred to writing to you. But in the dusk I'm freeįrom both and belong only to myself.and you. dusky.) In daylight I belong to the world.in the night to sleep and eternity. It sounds so velvety and shadowy and.and. ![]() (In passing, isn't 'dusk' a lovely word? I Rebecca Dew will figure largely in my future correspondence. "However, I mustn't get ahead of my story. Seen anything worse-looking than herself in it. I have already asked Rebecca Dew about it, but all sheĬan say is that it has always been Spook's Lane and there was some That?' Spook's Lane it is.although for what reason I cannot Occasions when it is mentioned in the Weekly Courier.Īnd then people look at each other and say, 'Where on earth is Street but it is never called Trent Street except on the rare Spook's Lane, which has no legal existence. Windy Poplars is the name of my new home and I love it. "Isn't that an address! Did you ever hear anything so delicious? School, to Gilbert Blythe, medical student at Redmond College, (Letter from Anne Shirley, B.A., Principal of Summerside High BROWSE the site for other works by this author ![]()
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