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Anne of Avonlea-Part23_L.Maud Montgomery(1874-1942)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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She hurriedly unlocked the back door, produced the axe, and with a few



skillfull blows set Anne free. The latter, somewhat tired and stiff,

ducked down into the interior of her prison and thankfully emerged



into liberty once more.

"Miss Copp," she said earnestly. "I assure you I looked into your



pantry window only to discover if you had a willow-ware platter.

I didn't see anything else -- I didn't LOOK for anything else."



"Bless you, that's all right," said Miss Sarah amiably. "You

needn't worry -- there's no harm done. Thank goodness, we Copps



keep our pantries presentable at all times and don't care who sees

into them. As for that old duckhouse, I'm glad it's smashed, for



maybe now Martha will agree to having it taken down. She never

would before for fear it might come in handy sometime and I've had to



whitewash it every spring. But you might as well argue with a post

as with Martha. She went to town today -- I drove her to the station.



And you want to buy my platter. Well, what will you give for it?"

"Twenty dollars," said Anne, who was never meant to match business



wits with a Copp, or she would not have offered her price at the start.

"Well, I'll see," said Miss Sarah cautiously. "That platter is mine



fortunately, or I'd never dare to sell it when Martha wasn't here.

As it is, I daresay she'll raise a fuss. Martha's the boss



of this establishment I can tell you. I'm getting awful tired of

living under another woman's thumb. But come in, come in. You



must be real tired and hungry. I'll do the best I can for you in

the way of tea but I warn you not to expect anything but bread and



butter and some cowcumbers. Martha locked up all the cake and

cheese and preserves afore she went. She always does, because she



says I'm too extravagant with them if company comes."

The girls were hungry enough to do justice to any fare, and they



enjoyed Miss Sarah's excellent bread and butter and "cowcumbers"

thoroughly. When the meal was over Miss Sarah said,



"I don't know as I mind selling the platter. But it's worth

twenty-five dollars. It's a very old platter."



Diana gave Anne's foot a gentle kick under the table, meaning,

"Don't agree -- she'll let it go for twenty if you hold out."



But Anne was not minded to take any chances in regard to that

precious platter. She promptly agreed to give twenty-five and



Miss Sarah looked as if she felt sorry she hadn't asked for thirty.

"Well, I guess you may have it. I want all the money I can scare



up just now. The fact is -- " Miss Sarah threw up her head

importantly, with a proud flush on her thin cheeks -- "I'm going



to be married -- to Luther Wallace. He wanted me twenty years ago.

I liked him real well but he was poor then and father packed him off.



I s'pose I shouldn't have let him go so meek but I was timid and

frightened of father. Besides, I didn't know men were so skurse."



When the girls were safely away, Diana driving and Anne holding

the coveted platter carefully on her lap, the green, rain-freshened



solitudes of the Tory Road were enlivened by ripples of girlish laughter.

"I'll amuse your Aunt Josephine with the `strange eventful history'



of this afternoon when I go to town tomorrow. We've had a rather

trying time but it's over now. I've got the platter, and that rain



has laid the dust beautifully. So `all's well that ends well.'"

"We're not home yet," said Diana rather pessimistically, "and



there's no telling what may happen before we are. You're such

a girl to have adventures, Anne."



"Having adventures comes natural to some people," said Anne

serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't."



XIX

Just a Happy Day



"After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and

sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful



or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures,

following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."



Life at Green Gables was full of just such days, for Anne's adventures

and misadventures, like those of other people, did not all happen at once,



but were sprinkled over the year, with long stretches of harmless, happy

days between, filled with work and dreams and laughter and lessons.



Such a day came late in August. In the forenoon Anne and Diana rowed

the delighted twins down the pond to the sandshore to pick "sweet grass"



and paddle in the surf, over which the wind was harping an old lyric

learned when the world was young.



In the afternoon Anne walked down to the old Irving place to see Paul.

She found him stretched out on the grassy bank beside the thick fir






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