“I can never forget the night I thought you were dying, Gilbert. Oh, I knew—I knew then—and I thought it was too late.”
“But it wasn’t, sweetheart.
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
Well, the doctor was amazed at my rapid recovery after that.”
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
There was nobody else—there never could be anybody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
I asked you a question over two years ago, Anne. If I ask it again today will you give me a different answer?”
Still Anne could not speak. But she lifted her eyes, shining with all the love-rapture of countless generations, and looked into his for a moment. He wanted no other answer.
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
When you’ve learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn’t, you’ve got wisdom and understanding.
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
“All life lessons are not learned at college,” she thought. “Life teaches them everywhere.”
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
If I had my way I’d shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne,” said Gilbert
Giadaцитирует6 месяцев назад
Gilbert was looking at Anne, as she walked along. In her light dress, with her slender delicacy, she made him think of a white iris.
“I wonder if I can ever make her care for me,” he thought, with a pang of self-distrust.
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Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.”
Gilbert drew her close to him and kissed her. Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.