Diana Barry

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Chapter One: In the Garret of Green Gables.

"Thanks be, I'm done with geometry, learning or teaching it," said Anne Shirley, a trifle vindictively, as she thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat down upon it, looking at Diana right across the Green Gables garret with gray eyes that were like a morning sky.

The garret was a shadowy, suggestive, delightful place, as all garrets should be.

So without further ado, Chapter 2, Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure.

Anne drove over to Carmody on a shopping expedition the next afternoon and took Diana Barry with her.

Diana was, of course, a pledged member of the Improvement Society, and the two girls talked about little else all the way to Carmody and back.

"'The very first thing we ought to do when we get started is to have that hall painted,' said Diana as they drove past the Avonlea Hall, a rather shabby building set down in a wooded hollow, with spruce trees hooding it about on all sides.

"'It's a disgraceful-looking place, and we must attend to it even before we try to get Mr. Levi Bolter to pull down his house,' Father says we'll never succeed in doing that.

Levi Bolter is too mean to spend the time it would take.

We can't expect to improve everything all at once.

We'll have to educate public sentiment first, of course.