For one thing, there was a new family in the manse. 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. Miss Cornelia was going up to Ingleside to see Dr. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned. Marshall Elliott, with the most killing and pointed emphasis, as if to say You wanted to be Mrs. Susan Baker, the gray and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her Mrs. The old name was dear to her old friends, only one of them contemptuously dropped it. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss Cornelia than as Mrs. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, 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. 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. MISS CORNELIA GETS A NEW POINT OF VIEWĬHAPTER XXXV. ANOTHER SCANDAL AND ANOTHER EXPLANATIONĬHAPTER XXVI. When the book appeared in 1908, it was an instant success it would go on to sell millions of copies in dozens of languages the world over, making Anne one of literature's most beloved characters of all time.All rights reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. She worked for a time as a teacher and a journalist, then wrote her first novel, Anne of Green Gables, in the evenings while caring for her grandmother. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was born in what is now New London, Prince Edward Island, and raised by her grandparents after the death of her mother when she was just two.

There's always an adventure brewing in the world of Rainbow Valley. Will the Meredith children-with the help of their new friends, the Blythes-be able to bring happiness back into the life of their lonely father at last? There, they plot to rescue a young runaway named Mary Vance, and even form the Good-Conduct Club so the Meredith children can redeem themselves in the eyes of the disapproving townspeople.īut their grandest and most important scheme centers around poor widowed John Meredith himself, who has surprised everyone by falling in love once more. Together, the Blythe and Meredith children hatch schemes in their own private hideout-a hollow they call Rainbow Valley. But when a new minister, John Meredith, comes to town with his own four youngsters in tow, things get very boisterous indeed. Anne and Gilbert have now been married for fifteen years and are busily raising their six rambunctious children in the village of Glen St.

Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery