in the light of Anne’s remembered blush. Four years of earnest, happy work … and then the guerdon of a useful knowledge gained and a sweet heart won.
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
ANNE OF THE ISLAND
IX. An Unwelcome Lover and a Welcome Friend
XIII. The Way of Transgressors
XV. A Dream Turned Upside Down
XVIII. Miss Josephine Remembers the Anne-Girl
XXII. Spring and Anne Return to Green Gables
XXIII. Paul Cannot Find the Rock People
XXXIII. “He Just Kept Coming and Coming”
XXXIV. John Douglas Speaks at Last
XXXV. The Last Redmond Year Opens
XLI. Love Takes Up the Glass of Time
Chapter I.
The Shadow of Change
“Harvest is ended and summer is gone,” quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns
