34 Chapters
DARK AND BRIGHT At Christmas the college boys and girls came home and for a little while Ingleside was gay again. But all were not there—for the first time one was missing from the circle round the …
IN THE DAYS OF LANGEMARCK "How can spring come and be beautiful in such a horror," wrote Rilla in her diary. "When the sun shines and the fluffy yellow catkins are coming out on the w…
A SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE "I am very much afraid, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan, who had been on a pilgrimage to the station with some choice bones for Dog Monday, "that something terrible h…
THE VALLEY OF DECISION Susan kept the flag flying at Ingleside all the next day, in honour of Italy's declaration of war. "And not before it was time, Mrs. Dr. dear, considering the way t…
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK "The Germans have recaptured Premysl," said Susan despairingly, looking up from her newspaper, "and now I suppose we will have to begin calling it by that uncivili…
REALISM AND ROMANCE "Warsaw has fallen," said Dr. Blythe with a resigned air, as he brought the mail in one warm August day. Gertrude and Mrs. Blythe looked dismally at each other, and Ri…
THE WEEKS WEAR BY Rilla read her first love letter in her Rainbow Valley fir-shadowed nook, and a girl's first love letter, whatever blase, older people may think of it, is an event of tremendo…
A WAR-WEDDING "I can tell you this Dr. dear," said Susan, pale with wrath, "that Germany is getting to be perfectly ridiculous." They were all in the big Ingleside kitchen. Susa…
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS" One cold grey morning in February Gertrude Oliver wakened with a shiver, slipped into Rilla's room, and crept in beside her. "Rilla—I'm frightened—fri…
NORMAN DOUGLAS SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING "Where are you wandering, Anne o' mine?" asked the doctor, who even yet, after twenty-four years of marriage, occasionally addressed his wife thus…