nne Return to Green Gables . . . . . . .256
XXIII Paul Cannot Find the Rock People . . . . . . . . . .263
XXIV Enter Jonas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
XXV Enter Prince Charming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278
XXVI Enter Christine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288
XXVII Mutual Confidences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294
XXVIII A June Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
XXIX Diana's Wedding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
XXX Mrs. Skinner's Romance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317
XXXI Anne to Philippa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
XXXII Tea with Mrs. Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328
XXXIII "He Just Kept Coming and Coming" . . . . . . . . . .336
XXXIV John Douglas Speaks at Last. . . . . . . . . . . . .342
XXXV The Last Redmond Year Opens. . . . . . . . . . . . .350
XXXV1 The Gardners' Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .361
XXXVII Full-fledged B.A.'s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370
XXXVIII False Dawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379
XXXIX Deals with Weddings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .388
XL A Book of Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400
XLI Love Takes Up the Glass of Time. . . . . . . . . . .407

ANNE of the ISLAND

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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 in the Haunted Wood.

But everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. The sea was
roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed
with golden rod, the brook valley below Green Gables overflowed
with asters of ethereal purple, and the Lake of Shining Waters was
blue--blue--blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure
of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water
were past all moods and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a
tranquility unbroken by fickle dreams.

"It has been a nice summer," said Diana, twisting the new ring on her
left hand with a smile. "And Miss Laven