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Chapter XXVII
Mutual Confidences
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs,
bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each
followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in
an elfland of moonshine.
Over the girls at Patty's Place was falling the shadow of April
examinations. They were studying hard; even Phil had settled down
to text and notebooks with a doggedness not to be expected of her.
"I'm going to take the Johnson Scholarship in Mathematics," she
announced calmly. "I could take the one in Greek easily, but I'd
rather take the mathematical one because I want to prove to Jonas
that I'm really enormously clever."
"Jonas likes you better for your big brown eyes and your crooked
smile than for all the brains you carry under your curls," said Anne.
"When I was a girl it wasn't considered lady-like to know anything
about Mathematics," said Aunt Jamesina. "But times have changed.
I don't know that it's all for the better. Can you cook, Phil?"
"No, I never cooked anything in my life except a gingerbread and
it was a failure -- flat in the middle and hilly round the edges.
You know the kind. But, Aunty, when I begin in good earnest to
learn to cook don't you think the brains that enable me to win a
mathematicalscholarship will also enable me to learn cooking
just as well?"
"Maybe," said Aunt Jamesina cautiously. "I am not decrying the
higher education of women. My daughter is an M.A. She can cook,
too. But I taught her to cook BEFORE I let a college professor
teach her Mathematics."
In mid-March came a letter from Miss Patty Spofford, saying that
she and Miss Maria had decided to remain abroad for another year.
"So you may have Patty's Place next winter, too," she wrote.
"Maria and I are going to run over Egypt. I want to see the
Sphinx once before I die."
"Fancy those two dames `running over Egypt'! I wonder if they'll
look up at the Sphinx and knit," laughed Priscilla.
"I'm so glad we can keep Patty's Place for another year," said
Stella. "I was afraid they'd come back. And then our jolly
little nest here would be broken up -- and we poor callow
nestlings thrown out on the cruel world of boardinghouses again."
"I'm off for a tramp in the park," announced Phil, tossing her
book aside. "I think when I am eighty I'll be glad I went for a
walk in the park tonight."
"What do you mean?" asked Anne.
"Come with me and I'll tell you, honey."
They captured in their ramble all the mysteries and magics of a
March evening. Very still and mild it was, wrapped in a great,
white, brooding silence -- a silence which was yet threaded
through with many little silvery sounds which you could hear if
you hearkened as much with your soul as your ears. The girls
wandered down a long pineland aisle that seemed to lead right out
into the heart of a deep-red, overflowing winter sunset.
"I'd go home and write a poem this blessed minute if I only knew how,"
declared Phil, pausing in an open space where a rosy light was staining
the green tips of the pines. "It's all so wonderful here -- this great,
white stillness, and those dark trees that always seem to be thinking."
"`The woods were God's first temples,'" quoted Anne softly.
"One can't help feeling reverent and adoring in such a place.
I always feel so near Him when I walk among the pines."
"Anne, I'm the happiest girl in the world," confessed Phil suddenly.
"So Mr. Blake has asked you to marry him at last?" said Anne calmly.
"Yes. And I sneezed three times while he was asking me.
Wasn't that horrid? But I said `yes' almost before he finished
-- I was so afraid he might change his mind and stop. I'm besottedly
happy. I couldn't really believe before that Jonas would ever care
for frivolous me."
"Phil, you're not really frivolous," said Anne gravely. "'Way
down underneath that frivolousexterior of yours you've got a
dear, loyal, womanly little soul. Why do you hide it so?"
"I can't help it, Queen Anne. You are right -- I'm not frivolous
at heart. But there's a sort of frivolous skin over my soul and
I can't take it off. As Mrs. Poyser says, I'd have to be hatched
over again and hatched different before I could change it. But
Jonas knows the real me and loves me, frivolity and all. And I
love him. I never was so surprised in my life as I was when I
found out I loved him. I'd never thought it possible to fall in
Mutual Confidences
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs,
bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each
followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in
an elfland of moonshine.
Over the girls at Patty's Place was falling the shadow of April
examinations. They were studying hard; even Phil had settled down
to text and notebooks with a doggedness not to be expected of her.
"I'm going to take the Johnson Scholarship in Mathematics," she
announced calmly. "I could take the one in Greek easily, but I'd
rather take the mathematical one because I want to prove to Jonas
that I'm really enormously clever."
"Jonas likes you better for your big brown eyes and your crooked
smile than for all the brains you carry under your curls," said Anne.
"When I was a girl it wasn't considered lady-like to know anything
about Mathematics," said Aunt Jamesina. "But times have changed.
I don't know that it's all for the better. Can you cook, Phil?"
"No, I never cooked anything in my life except a gingerbread and
it was a failure -- flat in the middle and hilly round the edges.
You know the kind. But, Aunty, when I begin in good earnest to
learn to cook don't you think the brains that enable me to win a
mathematicalscholarship will also enable me to learn cooking
just as well?"
"Maybe," said Aunt Jamesina cautiously. "I am not decrying the
higher education of women. My daughter is an M.A. She can cook,
too. But I taught her to cook BEFORE I let a college professor
teach her Mathematics."
In mid-March came a letter from Miss Patty Spofford, saying that
she and Miss Maria had decided to remain abroad for another year.
"So you may have Patty's Place next winter, too," she wrote.
"Maria and I are going to run over Egypt. I want to see the
Sphinx once before I die."
"Fancy those two dames `running over Egypt'! I wonder if they'll
look up at the Sphinx and knit," laughed Priscilla.
"I'm so glad we can keep Patty's Place for another year," said
Stella. "I was afraid they'd come back. And then our jolly
little nest here would be broken up -- and we poor callow
nestlings thrown out on the cruel world of boardinghouses again."
"I'm off for a tramp in the park," announced Phil, tossing her
book aside. "I think when I am eighty I'll be glad I went for a
walk in the park tonight."
"What do you mean?" asked Anne.
"Come with me and I'll tell you, honey."
They captured in their ramble all the mysteries and magics of a
March evening. Very still and mild it was, wrapped in a great,
white, brooding silence -- a silence which was yet threaded
through with many little silvery sounds which you could hear if
you hearkened as much with your soul as your ears. The girls
wandered down a long pineland aisle that seemed to lead right out
into the heart of a deep-red, overflowing winter sunset.
"I'd go home and write a poem this blessed minute if I only knew how,"
declared Phil, pausing in an open space where a rosy light was staining
the green tips of the pines. "It's all so wonderful here -- this great,
white stillness, and those dark trees that always seem to be thinking."
"`The woods were God's first temples,'" quoted Anne softly.
"One can't help feeling reverent and adoring in such a place.
I always feel so near Him when I walk among the pines."
"Anne, I'm the happiest girl in the world," confessed Phil suddenly.
"So Mr. Blake has asked you to marry him at last?" said Anne calmly.
"Yes. And I sneezed three times while he was asking me.
Wasn't that horrid? But I said `yes' almost before he finished
-- I was so afraid he might change his mind and stop. I'm besottedly
happy. I couldn't really believe before that Jonas would ever care
for frivolous me."
"Phil, you're not really frivolous," said Anne gravely. "'Way
down underneath that frivolousexterior of yours you've got a
dear, loyal, womanly little soul. Why do you hide it so?"
"I can't help it, Queen Anne. You are right -- I'm not frivolous
at heart. But there's a sort of frivolous skin over my soul and
I can't take it off. As Mrs. Poyser says, I'd have to be hatched
over again and hatched different before I could change it. But
Jonas knows the real me and loves me, frivolity and all. And I
love him. I never was so surprised in my life as I was when I
found out I loved him. I'd never thought it possible to fall in
- curiously [´kjuəriəsli]
ad.好奇地；稀奇古怪地 (初中英语单词) - incident [´insidənt] n.小事件；事变 (初中英语单词)
- abroad [ə´brɔ:d] ad.海外；到处；广泛 (初中英语单词)
- romance [rəu´mæns] n.中世纪骑士小说 (初中英语单词)
- vision [´viʒən] n.视觉；想象力；幻影 (初中英语单词)
- prince [´prins] n.王子；亲王；君主 (初中英语单词)
- glorious [´glɔ:riəs] a.光荣的；辉煌的 (初中英语单词)
- strongly [´strɔŋli] ad.强烈地；强有力地 (初中英语单词)
- blossom [´blɔsəm] n.花；开花期 vi.开花 (初中英语单词)
- sensible [´sensəbəl] a.感觉得到的 (初中英语单词)
- spoken [´spəukən] speak的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
- constantly [´kɔnstəntli] ad.经常地；不断地 (初中英语单词)
- fasten [´fɑ:sən] v.扎牢；闩住；钉牢 (初中英语单词)
- chatter [´tʃætə] vi.&n.饶舌；闲聊 (初中英语单词)
- cushion [´kuʃən] n.垫子，坐褥 (初中英语单词)
- instantly [´instəntli] ad.立即，立刻 (初中英语单词)
- downstairs [,daun´steəz] ad.在楼下 a.楼下的 (初中英语单词)
- waiting [´weitiŋ] n.等候；伺候 (初中英语单词)
- approve [ə´pru:v] v.赞成；同意；批准 (初中英语单词)
- delightful [di´laitful] a.讨人喜欢的 (初中英语单词)
- fortunate [´fɔ:tʃənət] a.幸运的，侥幸的 (初中英语单词)
- romantic [rəu´mæntik] a.传奇(式)的；浪漫的 (初中英语单词)
- thrill [θril] v.震惊；激动；刺激 (初中英语单词)
- sparkle [´spɑ:kəl] vi.闪耀；焕发 n.火花 (初中英语单词)
- conscious [´kɔnʃəs] a.意识的；自觉的 (初中英语单词)
- standing [´stændiŋ] n.持续 a.直立的 (初中英语单词)
- violet [´vaiələt] n.&a.紫罗兰(的)；紫色 (初中英语单词)
- twilight [´twailait] n.黎明；黄昏 (初中英语单词)
- calmly [´kɑ:mli] ad.平静地；无风浪地 (初中英语单词)
- failure [´feiljə] n.失败；衰竭；破产 (初中英语单词)
- earnest [´ə:nist] a.认真的 n.认真；诚恳 (初中英语单词)
- enable [i´neibəl] vt.使能够；赋予权力 (初中英语单词)
- gravely [´greivli] ad.庄重地，严肃地 (初中英语单词)
- underneath [,ʌndə´ni:θ] ad.&prep.在底下 (初中英语单词)
- umbrella [ʌm´brelə] n.伞 (高中英语单词)
- nonsense [´nɔnsəns] n.胡说 int.胡说!废话 (高中英语单词)
- perfectly [´pə:fiktli] ad.理想地；完美地 (高中英语单词)
- reception [ri´sepʃən] n.接待；欢迎；招待会 (高中英语单词)
- originally [ə´ridʒənəli] ad.本来；独创地 (高中英语单词)
- longing [´lɔŋiŋ] n.&a.渴望(的) (高中英语单词)
- jealousy [´dʒeləsi] n.妒忌；猜忌 (高中英语单词)
- tropical [´trɔpikəl] a.热带地区的 (高中英语单词)
- related [ri´leitid] a.叙述的；有联系的 (高中英语单词)
- courtesy [´kə:tisi] n.礼貌；殷勤；好意 (高中英语单词)
- compliment [´kɔmplimənt] n.敬意 vt.赞美；祝贺 (高中英语单词)
- stately [´steitli] a.庄严的，雄伟的 (高中英语单词)
- massive [´mæsiv] a.厚实的；魁伟的 (高中英语单词)
- complexion [kəm´plekʃən] n.肤色；情况；局面 (高中英语单词)
- cautiously [´kɔ:ʃəsli] ad.小心地；谨慎地 (高中英语单词)
- saying [´seiŋ, ´sei-iŋ] n.言语；言论；格言 (高中英语单词)
- decided [di´saidid] a.明显的；决定的 (高中英语单词)
- stillness [´stilnis] n.不动；无声，寂静 (高中英语单词)
- horrid [´hɔrid] a.令人讨厌的；极糟的 (高中英语单词)
- sentimental [,senti´mentl] a.感伤的；多愁善感的 (英语四级单词)
- chiffon [´ʃifɔn] n.薄绸 a.薄而软的 (英语四级单词)
- staircase [´steəkeis] n.楼梯 =stairway (英语四级单词)
- trying [´traiiŋ] a.难堪的；费劲的 (英语四级单词)
- flannel [´flænl] n.法兰绒 (英语四级单词)
- tempting [´temptiŋ] a.引诱人的，吸引人的 (英语四级单词)
- starry [´stɑ:ri] a.星光照耀的，闪亮的 (英语四级单词)
- frosty [´frɔsti] a.霜冻的；冷淡的 (英语四级单词)
- scholarship [´skɔləʃip, ´skɑlər-] n.学术成就；学问 (英语四级单词)
- enormously [i´nɔ:məsli] ad.巨大的，庞大的 (英语四级单词)
- gingerbread [´dʒindʒəbred] n.&a.(像)姜饼(的) (英语四级单词)
- ramble [´ræmbl] v.&n.闲逛；漫步 (英语四级单词)
- silvery [´silvəri] a.银一般的 (英语四级单词)
- blessed [´blesid] a.享福的；神圣的 (英语四级单词)
- exterior [ik´stiəriə] n.&a.外表(的) (英语四级单词)
- taking [´teikiŋ] a.迷人的 n.捕获物 (英语六级单词)
- insolent [´insələnt] a.傲慢的；无礼的 (英语六级单词)
- poetical [pəu´etikəl] a.理想化了的 (英语六级单词)
- mathematical [,mæθə´mætikəl] a.数学的；精确的 (英语六级单词)
- frivolous [´frivələs] a.轻佻的 (英语六级单词)
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