Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne's House of Dreams Lucy Maud Montgomery

Book Excerpt: ...nd keep an eye on the dinner at the same time. Today, when you called me, I distinctly heard that queer clock of the Pyes' striking. So no doubt Josie or Gertie was listening.""Oh, so that is why you said, `You've got a new clock at Green Gables, haven't you?' I couldn't imagine what you meant. I heard a vicious click as soon as you had spoken. I suppose it was the Pye receiver being hung up with profane energy. Well, never mind the Pyes. As Mrs. Rachel says, `Pyes they always were and Pyes they always will be, world without end, amen.' I want to talk of pleasanter things. It's all settled as to where my new home shall be.""Oh, Anne, where? I do hope it's near here.""No-o-o, that's the drawback. Gilbert is going to settle at Four Winds Harbor--sixty miles from here.""Sixty! It might as well be six hundred," sighed Diana. "I never can get further from home now than Charlottetown.""You'll have to come to Four Winds. It's the most beautiful harbor on the Island. There's a...