Lucy Maud Montgomery

GRANDMA'S TREASURES

ANNE OF AVONLEA

Emily Netherland

madeleine

She said whenever you looked foward to anything plesant you were sure to be more or less dissapointed... that nothing ever came up to you expectations. Well perhaps that is true but there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either...they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

After all, when one can see stars and skies like that, little dissapointments and accidents can't matter so much, can they?

When I think something nice is going to happen i seem to fly right up onto the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realise I drop down to earth with a thud. But really Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts... it's like soaring through a sunset. Ithink it almost pays for the thud.

There is no plot in it, you see. It's just a string of fancies. I like writing such things but of course nothing of the sort would ever do for publication, for editors insist on plots.

cedar winslow

I have a conviction that there are scores of beautiful nooks there that have never really been 

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