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1"They grew in beauty side by side until they were sixteen. Then Bertram DeVere came to their native village and fell in
2love with the fair Geraldine. He saved her life when her horse ran away with her in a carriage, and she fainted in his
3arms and he carried her home three miles; because, you understand, the carriage was all smashed up. I found it rather
4hard to imagine the proposal because I had no experience to go by. I asked Ruby Gillis if she knew anything about how
5men proposed because I thought she'd likely be an authority on the subject, having so many sisters married. Ruby told me
6she was hid in the hall pantry when Malcolm Andres proposed to her sister Susan. She said Malcolm told Susan that his
7dad had given him the farm in his own name and then said, 'What do you say, darling pet, if we get hitched this fall?'
8And Susan said, 'Yes--no--I don't know--let me see'--and there they were, engaged as quick as that. But I didn't think
9that sort of a proposal was a very romantic one, so in the end I had to imagine it out as well as I could. I made it
10very flowery and poetical and Bertram went on his knees, although Ruby Gillis says it isn't done nowadays. Geraldine
11accepted him in a speech a page long. I can tell you I took a lot of trouble with that speech. I rewrote it five times
12and I look upon it as my masterpiece. Bertram gave her a diamond ring and a ruby necklace and told her they would go to
13Europe for a wedding tour, for he was immensely wealthy. But then, alas, shadows began to darken over their path.
14Cordelia was secretly in love with Bertram herself and when Geraldine told her about the engagement she was simply
15furious, especially when she saw the necklace and the diamond ring. All her affection for Geraldine turned to bitter
16hate and she vowed that she should never marry Bertram. But she pretended to be Geraldine's friend the same as ever. One
17evening they were standing on the bridge over a rushing turbulent stream and Cordelia, thinking they were alone, pushed
18Geraldine over the brink with a wild, mocking, 'Ha, ha, ha.' But Bertram saw it all and he at once plunged into the
19current, exclaiming, 'I will save thee, my peerless Geraldine.' But alas, he had forgotten he couldn't swim, and they
20were both drowned, clasped in each other's arms. Their bodies were washed ashore soon afterwards. They were buried in
21the one grave and their funeral was most imposing, Diana. It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral
22than a wedding. As for Cordelia, she went insane with remorse and was shut up in a lunatic asylum. I thought that was a
23poetical retribution for her crime." "How perfectly lovely!" sighed Diana, who belonged to Matthew's school of critics.
24"I don't see how you can make up such thrilling things out of your own head, Anne. I wish my imagination was as good as
25yours." "It would be if you'd only cultivate it," said Anne cheeringly. "I've just thought of a plan, Diana. Let you and
26me have a story club all our own and write stories for practice. I'll help you along until you can do them by yourself.
27You ought to cultivate your imagination, you know. Miss Stacy says so. Only we must take the right way. I told her about
28the Haunted Wood, but she said we went the wrong way about it in that." This was how the story club came into existence.
29It was limited to Diana and Anne at first, but soon it was extended to include Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis and one or
30two others who felt that their imaginations needed cultivating. No boys were allowed in it--although Ruby Gillis opined
31that their admission would make it more exciting--and each member had to produce one story a week. "It's extremely
32interesting," Anne told Marilla. "Each girl has to read her story out loud and then we talk it over. We are going to
33keep them all sacredly and have them to read to our descendants. We each write under a nom-de-plume. Mine is Rosamond
34Montmorency. All the girls do pretty well. Ruby Gillis is rather sentimental. She puts too much lovemaking into her
35stories and you know too much is worse than too little. Jane never puts any because she says it makes her feel so silly
36when she had to read it out loud. Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She
37says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them. I mostly
38always have to tell them what to write about, but that isn't hard for I've millions of ideas." "I think this
39story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste
40time that should be put on your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse." "But we're so careful
41to put a moral into them all, Marilla," explained Anne. "I insist upon that. All the good people are rewarded and all
42the bad ones are suitably punished. I'm sure that must have a wholesome effect. The moral is the great thing. Mr. Allan
43says so. I read one of my stories to him and Mrs. Allan and they both agreed that the moral was excellent. Only they
44laughed in the wrong places. I like it better when people cry. Jane and Ruby almost always cry when I come to the
45pathetic parts. Diana wrote her Aunt Josephine about our club and her Aunt Josephine wrote back that we were to send her
46some of our stories. So we copied out four of our very best and sent them. Miss Josephine Barry wrote back that she had
47never read anything so amusing in her life. That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and
48almost everybody died. But I'm glad Miss Barry liked them. It shows our club is doing some good in the world. Mrs. Allan
49says that ought to be our object in everything. I do really try to make it my object but I forget so often when I'm
50having fun. I hope I shall be a little like Mrs. Allan when I grow up. Do you think there is any prospect of it,
51Marilla?" "I shouldn't say there was a great deal" was Marilla's encouraging answer. "I'm sure Mrs. Allan was never such
52a silly, forgetful little girl as you are." "No; but she wasn't always so good as she is now either," said Anne
53seriously. "She told me so herself--that is, she said she was a dreadful mischief when she was a girl and was always
54getting into scrapes. I felt so encouraged when I heard that. Is it very wicked of me, Marilla, to feel encouraged when
55I hear that other people have been bad and mischievous? Mrs. Lynde says it is. Mrs. Lynde says she always feels shocked
56when she hears of anyone ever having been naughty, no matter how small they were. Mrs. Lynde says she once heard a
57minister confess that when he was a boy he stole a strawberry tart out of his aunt's pantry and she never had any
58respect for that minister again. Now, I wouldn't have felt that way. I'd have thought that it was real noble of him to
59confess it, and I'd have thought what an encouraging thing it would be for small boys nowadays who do naughty things and
60are sorry for them to know that perhaps they may grow up to be ministers in spite of it. That's how I'd feel, Marilla."
61"The way I feel at present, Anne," said Marilla, "is that it's high time you had those dishes washed. You've taken half
62an hour longer than you should with all your chattering. Learn to work first and talk afterwards."
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