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Chapter 8 Miss Cornelia Bryant Comes to Call. That September was a month of golden mists and purple hazes at Four Winds Harbor--a month of sun-steeped days and of nights that were swimming in moonlight, or pulsating with stars. No storm marred it, no rough wind blew.
In short, Miss Cornelia's conversation was singularly devoid of spice that day, and Gilbert, who had stayed home to listen to her, instead of going a-fishing, as he had intended, felt himself aggrieved.
May 2, 2022 · Miss Cornelia disdained to reply and turned instead to Susan Baker, a grim-faced, kind-hearted elderly spinster of the Glen, who had been installed as maid-of-all-work at the little house for some weeks.
Jul 23, 2023 · Anne stopped, partly because she was out of breath after her vehement speech and partly because she could not trust herself to speak further in view of Miss Cornelia’s face. That good lady was staring helplessly at Anne, apparently engulfed in billows of new ideas.
Anne smiled. She had learned to discount largely Miss Cornelia's opinions of the Four Winds men. Otherwise she must have believed them the most hopeless assortment of reprobates and ne'er-do-wells in the world, with veritable slaves and martyrs for wives.
May 3, 2022 · Anne remembered that Miss Cornelia had given her a very different impression of Leslie’s mother. But had not love the truer vision? Still, it was selfish of Rose West to make her daughter marry Dick Moore. “Kenneth was my brother,” went on Leslie. “Oh, I can’t tell you how I loved him.
Anne's House of DreamsLucy Maud MONTGOMERY (1874 - 1942)Anne's House of Dreams is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she a...
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