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2,940 | 45_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diana signals Anne to come over . When they do, Diana tells her she wants to take Anne to the Debating Club concert for her birthday. Anne can stay overnight and they can sleep in the spare room, which Anne considers a high honor. Only problem? Marilla won't let Anne go. Matthew disagrees with Marilla. His strategy for... | [
"|MARILLA, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?\" asked Anne,\nrunning breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening.",
"\"I don't see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for,\" said\nMarilla shortly. \"You and Diana walked home from school together and\nthen stood down there in t... |
2,941 | 45_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens by describing a beautiful spring where the kids of Avonlea have a grand ol' time picking flowers. Anne tells Marilla all about their escapades, and also mentions that it's the year anniversary of her coming to Green Gables. Marilla tells Anne to go to the Barry house to ask for an apron pattern for Di... | [
"|SPRING had come once more to Green Gables--the beautiful capricious,\nreluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a\nsuccession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles\nof resurrection and growth. The maples in Lover's Lane were red budded\nand little curly ferns pushe... |
2,942 | 45_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ch-ch-changes in Avonlea. Mr. Phillips is leaving the Avonlea school and the church is getting a new minister, who has a wife. Said wife, Mrs. Allan, takes over Anne's Sunday school class and lets the students ask her questions, so of course Anne loves her. Marilla decides to invite the Allans over for supper and tells... | [
"|DEAR ME, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as\nMrs. Lynde says,\" remarked Anne plaintively, putting her slate and books\ndown on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red\neyes with a very damp handkerchief. \"Wasn't it fortunate, Marilla, that\nI took an extra handkerc... |
2,943 | 45_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne gets an invitation from Mrs. Allan to join her for tea. Never mind that all the members of her class will be invited to tea; Anne is pumped. She's never received an invitation in the mail before. Anne goes through her usual stages of pre-big-event feeling: excitement whenever she thinks about the event and anxiety... | [
"|AND what are your eyes popping out of your head about. Now?\" asked\nMarilla, when Anne had just come in from a run to the post office. \"Have\nyou discovered another kindred spirit?\" Excitement hung around Anne like\na garment, shone in her eyes, kindled in every feature. She had come\ndancing up the lane, like... |
2,944 | 45_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another year, another Diana Barry birthday party. The scene is set: the girls are in the Barry garden after tea. They soon start daring each other to do things. In Avonlea, it's completely taboo to refuse a dare. Anne scorns Josie Pye when Josie successfully walks a fence in response to a dare, saying it isn't that imp... | [
"|ANNE had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a\nmonth having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time\nfor her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as\nabsentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls\nin the pantry instead of... |
2,945 | 45_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Stacy's teaching methods are kind of revolutionary in unchanging Avonlea. In addition to classes, students have field afternoons where they study nature and "physical culture" exercises. Anne loves it. Marilla thinks it's nonsense. Miss Stacy organizes a concert for the kids to perform in on Christmas night. Anne ... | [
"|IT was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school--a\nglorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the\nvalleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had\npoured them in for the sun to drain--amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and\nsmoke-blue. The dews were so heavy t... |
2,946 | 45_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Matthew watches Anne with a bunch of her friends one night and sees that she looks different from them, but he can't figure out why. After smoking his pipe for a while, he realizes it's because she's dressed differently than them. He even realizes that their sleeves are somehow different. He decides to get Anne a fashi... | [
"|MATTHEW was having a bad ten minutes of it. He had come into the\nkitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat\ndown in the woodbox corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of\nthe fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice\nof \"The Fairy Queen\" in the s... |
2,947 | 45_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Life feels flat and unexciting to the Avonlea students after the Christmas concert. Fast forward a few weeks to when Anne turns thirteen. She and Diana are walking through the woods talking about their composition assignments. They're supposed to write a story. Diana's daunted by the assignment, but Anne's already done... | [
"|JUNIOR Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence\nagain. To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and\nunprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for\nweeks. Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway\ndays before the concert? At first,... |
2,948 | 45_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla walks home from a ladies' meeting, happy that she'll be going home to tea and a roaring fire now that Anne's in her life. When she gets home, Anne isn't there and nothing is started. Marilla isn't scared. She's annoyed. She preps tea and rants to Matthew. Later, she goes to Anne's room to find Anne hiding out i... | [
"Marilla, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting,\nrealized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight\nthat spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to\nthe youngest and merriest. Marilla was not given to subjective analysis\nof her thoughts and feelings. ... |
2,949 | 45_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne and her friends are trying to act out Tennyson's poem "Lancelot and Elaine," which involves a dead Elaine floating to Camelot. Anne's friends nominate her to be the dead girl because she won't be scared floating on a flat down a river. They push the flat into the river and run to a lower spot where they will meet ... | [
"|OF course you must be Elaine, Anne,\" said Diana. \"I could never have\nthe courage to float down there.\"",
"\"Nor I,\" said Ruby Gillis, with a shiver. \"I don't mind floating down\nwhen there's two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up. It's fun\nthen. But to lie down and pretend I was dead--I just co... |
2,950 | 45_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aunt Josephine invites Anne and Diana to visit her and attend the Exhibition, which is like a giant fair. Diana schemes to have her parents to ask Marilla so she'll let Anne go. Marilla relents, just like she has recently relented on fashionable clothes. Anne and Diana stay in Aunt Josephine's mansion, which is called ... | [
"|ANNE was bringing the cows home from the back pasture by way of Lover's\nLane. It was a September evening and all the gaps and clearings in the\nwoods were brimmed up with ruby sunset light. Here and there the lane\nwas splashed with it, but for the most part it was already quite shadowy\nbeneath the maples, and ... |
2,951 | 45_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening, Anne comes home to a very tired Marilla. Marilla hasn't been feeling well lately and thinks she needs to get her glasses changed. Marilla tells Anne that Miss Stacy came to visit Green Gables, but can't get further with her story. First, Anne gets sidetracked talking about growing up, and then Anne thinks ... | [
"|MARILLA laid her knitting on her lap and leaned back in her chair. Her\neyes were tired, and she thought vaguely that she must see about having\nher glasses changed the next time she went to town, for her eyes had\ngrown tired very often of late.",
"It was nearly dark, for the full November twilight had fallen ... |
2,952 | 45_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne gets to spend her summer almost completely outdoors. She considers it her last summer of being a child, and Marilla lets her run free because a doctor told Marilla she's too pale and needs fresh air. Anne has a conversation with Marilla about how some people make her want to be good, but Mrs. Lynde's lecturing mak... | [
"|ANNE had her \"good\" summer and enjoyed it wholeheartedly. She and Diana\nfairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the delights that Lover's Lane\nand the Dryad's Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded.\nMarilla offered no objections to Anne's gypsyings. The Spencervale\ndoctor who had come the night M... |
2,953 | 45_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the end of year: time for the entrance exams. Anne travels to Charlottetown to take them. In a letter to Diana, Anne describes everyone's initial fear right before the test starts, and how she thinks she's done on the tests so far. She secretly wants to beat Gilbert. All the kids in town are waiting to find out wh... | [
"|WITH the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss\nStacy's rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana walked home that\nevening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore\nconvincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words must\nhave been quite as touching as Mr... |
2,954 | 45_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Near the end of Anne's summer before Queen's, she's asked to speak in a big concert at the White Sands Hotel. Diana spends time dressing her up beautifully, and she, Diana, and Jane ride to White Sands with a local boy at the wheel. When they get there, Anne is escorted to the performers' dressing room, full of ladies ... | [
"|PUT on your white organdy, by all means, Anne,\" advised Diana\ndecidedly.",
"They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only\ntwilight--a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless\nsky. A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into\nburnished silver, hung ov... |
2,955 | 45_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne catches Marilla crying as she is getting Anne ready for Queen's. Marilla wishes Anne could have stayed a little girl, but Anne reassures her she'll always be her Anne inside. The first day at school presents new challenges: a medal for the top of the class upon graduation. Of course, both Anne and Gilbert are tryi... | [
"|THE next three weeks were busy ones at Green Gables, for Anne was\ngetting ready to go to Queen's, and there was much sewing to be done,\nand many things to be talked over and arranged. Anne's outfit was\nample and pretty, for Matthew saw to that, and Marilla for once made\nno objections whatever to anything he p... |
2,956 | 45_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne settles into her classes and makes new friends. Meanwhile, Gilbert Blythe is "walking home with" Ruby and still not talking to Anne. Anne and her friends begin studying for examinations. If they pass, they'll get their teacher's certificates. If they pass at the top of their class, they have a chance to get the me... | [
"|ANNE'S homesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her\nweekend visits home. As long as the open weather lasted the Avonlea\nstudents went out to Carmody on the new branch railway every Friday\nnight. Diana and several other Avonlea young folks were generally on\nhand to meet them and they all walked ... |
2,957 | 45_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The final results are about to be posted and now Anne's worried. Then she and Gilbert are cheered. Gilbert wins the medal but Anne wins the scholarship. At commencement, Marilla, Matthew, and Aunt Josephine talk about how glad they are that they kept Anne, and how proud they are of her. Anne goes home reunites with Dia... | [
"|ON the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be\nposted on the bulletin board at Queen's, Anne and Jane walked down the\nstreet together. Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over\nand she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further\nconsiderations troubled Jane no... |
2,958 | 45_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It doesn't take long for this chapter to live up to its title. Matthew collapses the next morning and he's dead before the doctor arrives. Everyone visits Green Gables that day. Anne feels strangely achey but can't cry. Diana offers to sleep with Anne but Anne says no. Anne wakes up in the middle of the night and cries... | [
"|MATTHEW--Matthew--what is the matter? Matthew, are you sick?\"",
"It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word. Anne came through\nthe hall, her hands full of white narcissus,--it was long before Anne\ncould love the sight or odor of white narcissus again,--in time to hear\nher and to see Matthew standin... |
2,959 | 45_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne finds Marilla with her head buried in her hands. Marilla has just found out that if she doesn't give up all eye-straining work she'll be blind in six months. She doesn't see the point of not working if she's going to be alone. A few days later, Marilla decides to sell Green Gables. Anne won't let her. She's made a... | [
"|MARILLA went to town the next day and returned in the evening. Anne had\ngone over to Orchard Slope with Diana and came back to find Marilla in\nthe kitchen, sitting by the table with her head leaning on her hand.\nSomething in her dejected attitude struck a chill to Anne's heart. She\nhad never seen Marilla sit ... |
2,922 | 45_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about. It just makes me feel glad to be alive. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, the town busybody, lives with her meek husband on the main road of Avonlea, a small rural town in Prince Edward Island in Canada. Mrs. Rachel, as she is kno... | [
"|MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down\ninto a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and\ntraversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the\nold Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook\nin its earlier course through tho... |
2,923 | 45_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised Matthew enjoys his quiet ride to the train station, except for the moments when he passes women and must nod at them. All women scare him, except for Marilla, who we learn is his sister, and Mrs. Rachel. He always feels like women are laughing at him. Arriving at the station, he sees no si... | [
"|MATTHEW Cuthbert and the sorrel mare jogged comfortably over the eight\nmiles to Bright River. It was a pretty road, running along between\nsnug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive\nthrough or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom. The air\nwas sweet with the breath of... |
2,924 | 45_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised Unlike Matthew, Marilla does not shrink from voicing her surprise upon seeing a girl orphan, instead of a boy, at her front door. As the Cuthberts talk about Mrs. Spencer's mistake, Anne realizes she is not wanted. She dramatically bursts into tears, crying, "Nobody ever did want me. I mig... | [
"|MARILLA came briskly forward as Matthew opened the door. But when her\neyes fell on the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the\nlong braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped short\nin amazement.",
"\"Matthew Cuthbert, who's that?\" she ejaculated. \"Where is the boy?\"",
"\"T... |
2,925 | 45_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Morning at Green Gables Anne wakes up momentarily confused by her surroundings. Her confusion turns to delight and then to disappointment as she remembers that although she is at her new home, Matthew and Marilla do not want her. Her spirits improve at the sight of the morning sunshine and a beautiful cherry tree in fu... | [
"|IT was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring\nconfusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was\npouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across\nglimpses of blue sky.",
"For a moment she could not remember where she was. First came a\ndelightful th... |
2,926 | 45_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne's History Anne announces that she is determined to enjoy the ride back to Mrs. Spencer's orphanage. Marilla, realizing that Anne must talk about something, decides to pick the topic herself, and asks Anne about her past. Anne says she would prefer to tell what she imagines about herself, as her imagination is so m... | [
"|DO you know,\" said Anne confidentially, \"I've made up my mind to enjoy\nthis drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy\nthings if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you\nmust make it up _firmly_. I am not going to think about going back to\nthe asylum while we're having... |
2,927 | 45_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla Makes Up Her Mind Marilla and Anne arrive at Mrs. Spencer's orphanage and explain the mistake. Mrs. Spencer apologizes and says that the situation will work out for the best anyway. Another woman, Mrs. Peter Blewett, wants to adopt a girl to help with her rambunctious children, so Anne can be handed over to her... | [
"|GET there they did, however, in due season. Mrs. Spencer lived in a big\nyellow house at White Sands Cove, and she came to the door with surprise\nand welcome mingled on her benevolent face.",
"\"Dear, dear,\" she exclaimed, \"you're the last folks I was looking for\ntoday, but I'm real glad to see you. You'll ... |
2,928 | 45_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne Says Her Prayers At bedtime, Marilla begins her program of moral and social education for Anne. She scolds Anne for leaving her clothes all over the floor the previous night and for failing to pray before bed. Anne replies that she has never said a prayer and does not know how to pray, though she would be happy to... | [
"|WHEN Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly:",
"\"Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about\nthe floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I\ncan't allow it at all. As soon as you take off any article of clothing\nfold it neatly and place it on t... |
2,929 | 45_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne's Bringing-Up Is Begun The next afternoon, Anne begs Marilla to tell her whether she can stay at Green Gables. Marilla makes Anne wash the dishcloth in hot water before announcing that she can stay. When Anne hears the good news, she cries with happiness, promising to be good and obedient, two qualities she senses... | [
"|FOR reasons best known to herself, Marilla did not tell Anne that\nshe was to stay at Green Gables until the next afternoon. During the\nforenoon she kept the child busy with various tasks and watched over her\nwith a keen eye while she did them. By noon she had concluded that Anne\nwas smart and obedient, willin... |
2,930 | 45_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified Two weeks after Anne's adoption, Mrs. Rachel Lynde drops by to inspect Anne. Talking with Mrs. Rachel, Marilla admits she feels affection for Anne: "I must say I like her myself. the house seems a different place already. Mrs. Rachel disapproves of an old maid like Marilla attemp... | [
"|ANNE had been a fortnight at Green Gables before Mrs. Lynde arrived to\ninspect her. Mrs. Rachel, to do her justice, was not to blame for this.\nA severe and unseasonable attack of grippe had confined that good lady\nto her house ever since the occasion of her last visit to Green Gables.\nMrs. Rachel was not ofte... |
2,931 | 45_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne's Apology Anne remains in her room the entire next day, sulking and barely touching the food Marilla brings her. Matthew, concerned about Anne, waits for Marilla to leave the house and then creeps up to Anne's room. He has not been upstairs for four years. He sneaks in and whispers to Anne that she should apologiz... | [
"|MARILLA said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening; but when\nAnne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be\nmade to account for her absence from the breakfast table. Marilla told\nMatthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of\nthe enormity of Anne's ... |
2,932 | 45_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne's Impressions of Sunday School Marilla shows Anne the three new dresses she has made for her, all of which are ugly and none of which has the puffed sleeves that Anne wants. To make up for the ugliness of the dresses, Anne imagines they are as beautiful and ornate as the dresses she has seen other girls wearing. T... | [
"|WELL, how do you like them?\" said Marilla.",
"Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new\ndresses spread out on the bed. One was of snuffy colored gingham which\nMarilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer\nbecause it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-w... |
2,933 | 45_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Solemn Vow and Promise Mrs. Rachel tells Marilla that Anne put flowers in her hat at church, making herself the laughingstock of the congregation. When Marilla reprimands Anne for doing something so inappropriate, Anne bursts into tears. She does not understand what she did wrong, since the flowers were beautiful an... | [
"|IT was not until the next Friday that Marilla heard the story of the\nflower-wreathed hat. She came home from Mrs. Lynde's and called Anne to\naccount.",
"\"Anne, Mrs. Rachel says you went to church last Sunday with your hat\nrigged out ridiculous with roses and buttercups. What on earth put you\nup to such a c... |
2,934 | 45_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Delights of Anticipation Marilla fumes as she looks out the window and sees Anne talking to Matthew forty-five minutes after she was supposed to go inside and do chores. Marilla's anger diminishes as Anne bursts into the room and joyfully describes the Sunday school picnic planned for the following week. She cannot... | [
"|IT'S time Anne was in to do her sewing,\" said Marilla, glancing at the\nclock and then out into the yellow August afternoon where everything\ndrowsed in the heat. \"She stayed playing with Diana more than half an\nhour more 'n I gave her leave to; and now she's perched out there on\nthe woodpile talking to Matth... |
2,935 | 45_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne's Confession Two days before the picnic, Marilla notices that her brooch is missing. She asks Anne if she touched it, and Anne admits that while Marilla was out for the afternoon, she saw it in Marilla's room and tried it on just for a moment. Marilla, after searching her room thoroughly, realizes that Anne must h... | [
"|ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room\nwith a troubled face.",
"\"Anne,\" she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the\nspotless table and singing, \"Nelly of the Hazel Dell\" with a vigor and\nexpression that did credit to Diana's teaching, \"did you see anyt... |
2,936 | 45_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Tempest in the School Teapot Anne and Diana take the most scenic route to school every day, walking on roads Anne has renamed Lover's Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale. Anne is thrilled to have a bosom friend in Diana and is willing to overlook Diana's average imagination. Because Anne loves Diana so much, she lets... | [
"|WHAT a splendid day!\" said Anne, drawing a long breath. \"Isn't it good\njust to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born\nyet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can\nnever have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way\nto go to school by, isn'... |
2,937 | 45_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results One beautiful October morning, Marilla announces that she will be away for the day and says that Anne should assume responsibility for running the house. She adds that Anne may invite Diana over for tea, leaving specific instructions about what Anne can serve Diana. During th... | [
"|OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the\nhollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard\nwere royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the\nloveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned\nthemselves in aftermaths.",... |
2,938 | 45_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A New Interest in Life One afternoon, Anne spies Diana outside beckoning to her. Anne rushes out, and Diana tells her she is still forbidden to play with Anne so she has come to say goodbye. The two have a sentimental, melodramatic parting. When Diana cries that she loves her bosom friend, Anne says, "Nobody ever has l... | [
"|THE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen\nwindow, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad's\nBubble beckoning mysteriously. In a trice Anne was out of the house\nand flying down to the hollow, astonishment and hope struggling in\nher expressive eyes. But the hope faded ... |
2,939 | 45_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne to the Rescue A Canadian premier comes to Prince Edward Island to address a mass meeting in Charlottetown, about thirty miles from Avonlea. Mrs. Rachel loves political events, so she goes with her husband and Marilla. At home, Anne is studying, and Matthew is reading the Farmers' Advocate when Diana rushes into th... | [
"|ALL things great are wound up with all things little. At first glance\nit might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian Premier to\ninclude Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or\nanything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables.\nBut it had.",
"It was a Janu... |
2,940 | 45_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession Anne explains to Marilla that in celebration of Diana's birthday, Mrs. Barry has agreed to let Diana invite Anne to a Debating Club concert and spend the night in the Barrys' spare bedroom. Anne can hardly contain her excitement, but Marilla declares that she cannot go because... | [
"|MARILLA, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?\" asked Anne,\nrunning breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening.",
"\"I don't see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for,\" said\nMarilla shortly. \"You and Diana walked home from school together and\nthen stood down there in t... |
2,941 | 45_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Good Imagination Gone Wrong Spring returns to Green Gables, bringing Anne's favorite ornaments of nature--flowers. She tells Marilla stories about exploring nature with her school friends. On the day of her anniversary of arriving at Green Gables, Anne takes considerable care with her chores. Marilla leaves Anne in c... | [
"|SPRING had come once more to Green Gables--the beautiful capricious,\nreluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a\nsuccession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles\nof resurrection and growth. The maples in Lover's Lane were red budded\nand little curly ferns pushe... |
2,942 | 45_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A New Departure in Flavorings On the last day of June, Anne returns from school with red eyes and a soaked handkerchief in her hand. The universally disliked schoolteacher, Mr. Phillips, is leaving his job, and his farewell speech made all the girls cry. The old minister, Mr. Bentley, has also given up his post, and th... | [
"|DEAR ME, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as\nMrs. Lynde says,\" remarked Anne plaintively, putting her slate and books\ndown on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red\neyes with a very damp handkerchief. \"Wasn't it fortunate, Marilla, that\nI took an extra handkerc... |
2,943 | 45_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne Is Invited Out to Tea Returning from the post office, Anne is filled with excitement because Mrs. Allan has invited her to tea. Marilla explains that Mrs. Allan has invited all the children in her Sunday school class, but this news does not diminish Anne's excitement. As usual, Marilla is troubled by Anne's enthus... | [
"|AND what are your eyes popping out of your head about. Now?\" asked\nMarilla, when Anne had just come in from a run to the post office. \"Have\nyou discovered another kindred spirit?\" Excitement hung around Anne like\na garment, shone in her eyes, kindled in every feature. She had come\ndancing up the lane, like... |
2,944 | 45_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor At the end of summer, Diana Barry invites all the girls in the Sunday school class to her house for a party. Tired of their usual songs and games, the girls decide to embark on more adventurous activities. They dare each other to hop around the yard on one foot or climb a tree.... | [
"|ANNE had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a\nmonth having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time\nfor her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as\nabsentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls\nin the pantry instead of... |
2,945 | 45_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert Anne enjoys her return to school in October. She especially adores her new teacher, and flourishes academically and personally in Miss Stacy's innovative schoolhouse. Both Mrs. Rachel and Marilla disapprove of Miss Stacy's novel teaching methods, which include sending boys to ... | [
"|IT was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school--a\nglorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the\nvalleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had\npoured them in for the sun to drain--amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and\nsmoke-blue. The dews were so heavy t... |
2,946 | 45_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves On a cold December evening, Matthew enters the kitchen and realizes too late that Anne and her friends are already there conducting a rehearsal of "The Fairy Queen" in preparation for the Christmas concert. Shy of all the little girls, he stays silently in the corner until they leave. ... | [
"|MATTHEW was having a bad ten minutes of it. He had come into the\nkitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat\ndown in the woodbox corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of\nthe fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice\nof \"The Fairy Queen\" in the s... |
2,947 | 45_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Story Club Is Formed After the excitement of the Christmas concert, the Avonlea students return to their normal, humdrum patterns. Anne, now almost thirteen, vows to improve herself by imitating Mrs. Allan, refraining from saying uncharitable things and trying to do good. For school, the students are assigned to wr... | [
"|JUNIOR Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence\nagain. To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and\nunprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for\nweeks. Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway\ndays before the concert? At first,... |
2,948 | 45_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Vanity and Vexation of Spirit One evening in late April, Marilla walks home feeling uplifted and lighthearted, though she does not realize that the sights of spring are the cause of her joy. She happily anticipates the warm fire and tea that Anne should have prepared for her at home. When she reaches Green Gables, Mari... | [
"Marilla, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting,\nrealized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight\nthat spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to\nthe youngest and merriest. Marilla was not given to subjective analysis\nof her thoughts and feelings. ... |
2,949 | 45_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An Unfortunate Lily Maid Anne, Diana, Ruby, and Jane enact a scene from a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson in which the corpse of a character named Elaine is sent down a river in a barge. Though Anne does not look like Elaine, who has golden hair, she gets the part because none of the other girls want to drift down the po... | [
"|OF course you must be Elaine, Anne,\" said Diana. \"I could never have\nthe courage to float down there.\"",
"\"Nor I,\" said Ruby Gillis, with a shiver. \"I don't mind floating down\nwhen there's two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up. It's fun\nthen. But to lie down and pretend I was dead--I just co... |
2,950 | 45_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An Epoch in Anne's Life On a beautiful September evening, Anne is bringing the cows back from the pasture when she runs into Diana, who has exciting news: Aunt Josephine has invited the two girls to her mansion in Charlottetown to see an exhibition, an event similar to a fair. The girls go to Aunt Josephine's estate, c... | [
"|ANNE was bringing the cows home from the back pasture by way of Lover's\nLane. It was a September evening and all the gaps and clearings in the\nwoods were brimmed up with ruby sunset light. Here and there the lane\nwas splashed with it, but for the most part it was already quite shadowy\nbeneath the maples, and ... |
2,951 | 45_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Queen's Class Is Organized One night Marilla rests after another one of her eye aches, which occur with increasing frequency and severity. She looks at Anne with an expression of fondness that she would never permit herself to show in the daylight when she could be seen. Because of Marilla's tendency to veil her af... | [
"|MARILLA laid her knitting on her lap and leaned back in her chair. Her\neyes were tired, and she thought vaguely that she must see about having\nher glasses changed the next time she went to town, for her eyes had\ngrown tired very often of late.",
"It was nearly dark, for the full November twilight had fallen ... |
2,952 | 45_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Where the Brook and River Meet After a rich summer free of studying, Anne returns to school with vigor and ambition. She is now fifteen years old, and with the other Avonlea scholars attends Debating Club concerts, parties, sleigh drives, and skating events. Anne is now taller than Marilla, and her eyes have grown seri... | [
"|ANNE had her \"good\" summer and enjoyed it wholeheartedly. She and Diana\nfairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the delights that Lover's Lane\nand the Dryad's Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded.\nMarilla offered no objections to Anne's gypsyings. The Spencervale\ndoctor who had come the night M... |
2,953 | 45_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Pass List Is Out The end of June marks the end of Miss Stacy's tenure and Anne's time at Avonlea School. Anne and Diana walk home, weeping that their time together as child scholars has ended. Though Anne is paralyzed by nervousness about her upcoming entrance exam, she dutifully follows Miss Stacy's advice and avo... | [
"|WITH the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss\nStacy's rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana walked home that\nevening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore\nconvincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words must\nhave been quite as touching as Mr... |
2,954 | 45_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Hotel Concert Diana, now locally famous for her fashion sense, helps Anne dress for a performance at the upscale White Sands Hotel. Diana suggests a dress of white organdy for Anne's slim figure; Anne can adorn the dress with the string of pearls Matthew recently gave her as a gift. Anne, accustomed to public speak... | [
"|PUT on your white organdy, by all means, Anne,\" advised Diana\ndecidedly.",
"They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only\ntwilight--a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless\nsky. A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into\nburnished silver, hung ov... |
2,955 | 45_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Queen's Girl It won't make a bit of difference where I go or how much I change outwardly; at heart I shall always be your little Anne. Anne's departure for Queen's Academy is imminent, and everyone at Green Gables helps with the preparations. Marilla changes her ideas about fashion and buys Anne fabric for a fancy ev... | [
"|THE next three weeks were busy ones at Green Gables, for Anne was\ngetting ready to go to Queen's, and there was much sewing to be done,\nand many things to be talked over and arranged. Anne's outfit was\nample and pretty, for Matthew saw to that, and Marilla for once made\nno objections whatever to anything he p... |
2,956 | 45_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Winter at Queen's All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years--each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet. Anne's homesickness wears off as the school year progresses. Midway through the year, the scholars at Queen's Academy stop their weekend visits to ... | [
"|ANNE'S homesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her\nweekend visits home. As long as the open weather lasted the Avonlea\nstudents went out to Carmody on the new branch railway every Friday\nnight. Diana and several other Avonlea young folks were generally on\nhand to meet them and they all walked ... |
2,957 | 45_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Glory and the Dream On the morning the exam results are announced, Anne is too nervous to check the list, but someone spots her name and cries that she has won the Avery Scholarship and Gilbert Blythe the Gold Medal. A swarm of people surrounds Anne and congratulates her, and when Matthew and Marilla come to the Qu... | [
"|ON the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be\nposted on the bulletin board at Queen's, Anne and Jane walked down the\nstreet together. Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over\nand she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further\nconsiderations troubled Jane no... |
2,958 | 45_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Reaper Whose Name Is Death Marilla sees Matthew's gray, sad face and calls to him sharply. At that moment, Anne sees him collapse at the threshold of Green Gables. Marilla and Anne try to revive him, but he dies instantly of a shock-induced heart attack. The shock came from reading a notice that Abbey Bank, where t... | [
"|MATTHEW--Matthew--what is the matter? Matthew, are you sick?\"",
"It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word. Anne came through\nthe hall, her hands full of white narcissus,--it was long before Anne\ncould love the sight or odor of white narcissus again,--in time to hear\nher and to see Matthew standin... |
2,959 | 45_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Bend in the Road When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. Now there is a bend in it. It has a fascination of its own, that bend. Marilla goes to town to see a visiting eye doctor and returns with bad news: she must give up reading, sewing, and crying, or else she will go b... | [
"|MARILLA went to town the next day and returned in the evening. Anne had\ngone over to Orchard Slope with Diana and came back to find Marilla in\nthe kitchen, sitting by the table with her head leaning on her hand.\nSomething in her dejected attitude struck a chill to Anne's heart. She\nhad never seen Marilla sit ... |
2,960 | 146_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel begins with Sara Crewe, a seven-year-old girl, riding a cab through the dark streets of London with her father. Captain Crewe is part of the British Colonial infrastructure in India, where he has raised his child, and Sara feels alienated and confused in England. Furthermore, Captain Crewe is heartbroken by t... | [
"Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and\nheavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop\nwindows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl\nsat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the\nbig thoroughfares.",
"She sa... |
2,961 | 146_chapters_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Burnett begins chapter five by explaining that Sara's true power lies in neither her wealth nor her cleverness, but in her ability to make up stories. Sara loves to tell stories and get lost in her imagination. One day she notices a small, grimy child watching her, but the child runs away as soon as Sara notices her pr... | [
"Of course the greatest power Sara possessed and the one which gained\nher even more followers than her luxuries and the fact that she was\n\"the show pupil,\" the power that Lavinia and certain other girls were\nmost envious of, and at the same time most fascinated by in spite of\nthemselves, was her power of tell... |
2,962 | 146_chapters_8-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara's new life begins right away. She spends her first sleepless night in the attic trying to process the news of her father's death and listening to the scurrying of rats and mice. The next day, she is told to sit with the small children at breakfast and keep them quiet. The other servants enjoy ordering her around, ... | [
"In the Attic",
"The first night she spent in her attic was a thing Sara never forgot.\nDuring its passing she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe of which\nshe never spoke to anyone about her. There was no one who would have\nunderstood. It was, indeed, well for her that as she lay awake in the\ndarkness her... |
2,963 | 146_chapters_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The winter following Sara's downfall is a dismal one, and she and Becky get through it by telling each other stories and imagining that they are princesses or prisoners in the Bastille. On one particularly cold day, when she is running errands, Sara fantasizes about finding sixpence and spending it at a bakery. Lo and ... | [
"One of the Populace",
"The winter was a wretched one. There were days on which Sara tramped\nthrough snow when she went on her errands; there were worse days when\nthe snow melted and combined itself with mud to form slush; there were\nothers when the fog was so thick that the lamps in the street were\nlighted a... |
2,964 | 146_chapters_17-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Carrisford and the children of the large family are anxiously awaiting Mr. Carmichael's return from Moscow. If all has gone well, Mr. Carmichael will arrive in London with Captain Crewe's daughter--he is in Moscow to speak to the adopted daughter of a Russian family, hoping the daughter is in fact Sara Crewe. He ar... | [
"\"It Is the Child!\"",
"The next afternoon three members of the Large Family sat in the Indian\ngentleman's library, doing their best to cheer him up. They had been\nallowed to come in to perform this office because he had specially\ninvited them. He had been living in a state of suspense for some time,\nand tod... |
2,965 | 146_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A little girl named Sara drives through London in a cab with her father, Captain Crewe. They have come to London from India. Sara's mother died when she was born, and she has been living with her rich father in India. But now it's time for her to get educated at boarding school in London. They arrive at Miss Minchin's ... | [
"Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and\nheavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop\nwindows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl\nsat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the\nbig thoroughfares.",
"She sa... |
2,966 | 146_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara enters the classroom for the first time the next morning, and everyone checks her out because she's the new kid. Some of her classmates include: Lavinia Herbert and Lottie Leigh . Talk about multi-age classrooms. All the girls have been gossiping about Sara: she has a French maid and boxes full of ridiculously fri... | [
"When Sara entered the schoolroom the next morning everybody looked at\nher with wide, interested eyes. By that time every pupil--from Lavinia\nHerbert, who was nearly thirteen and felt quite grown up, to Lottie\nLegh, who was only just four and the baby of the school--had heard a\ngreat deal about her. They knew... |
2,967 | 146_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara may be a weird kid, but Ermengarde St. John has a decidedly weird name. She's not super smart, poor thing, and is blown away by Sara's ability to learn French. Miss Minchin isn't very nice to Ermengarde, and because of this, Sara feels the need to reach out to her. After lessons, Sara introduces herself. Ermengard... | [
"On that first morning, when Sara sat at Miss Minchin's side, aware that\nthe whole schoolroom was devoting itself to observing her, she had\nnoticed very soon one little girl, about her own age, who looked at her\nvery hard with a pair of light, rather dull, blue eyes. She was a fat\nchild who did not look as if s... |
2,968 | 146_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Minchin kisses up to Sara all the time and compliments her because she wants her to stay at the boarding school--on account of all that money, of course. Whenever parents come, Sara is brought out to speak to them as evidence of how good the school is. That's bananas, of course, since Sara hasn't learned a thing a... | [
"If Sara had been a different kind of child, the life she led at Miss\nMinchin's Select Seminary for the next few years would not have been at\nall good for her. She was treated more as if she were a distinguished\nguest at the establishment than as if she were a mere little girl. If\nshe had been a self-opinionate... |
2,969 | 146_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara's been at the school for two years now As she's getting out of the carriage one day, she sees a little dingy figure standing on the stairs and watching her. Sara smiles at the person, who runs away. Later that day, she sees the same girl enter the room as she's telling stories to the other pupils about mermaids. L... | [
"Of course the greatest power Sara possessed and the one which gained\nher even more followers than her luxuries and the fact that she was\n\"the show pupil,\" the power that Lavinia and certain other girls were\nmost envious of, and at the same time most fascinated by in spite of\nthemselves, was her power of tell... |
2,970 | 146_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A little later, Sara gets an exciting letter: her papa is investing in diamond mines! Talk about glamorous. Lavinia, in true Mean Girls fashion, sniffs and huffs and says that they should call Sara "Your Royal Highness." We already don't like Lavinia, but it gets worse when she actually has a tiff with Lottie, who is a... | [
"Not very long after this a very exciting thing happened. Not only Sara,\nbut the entire school, found it exciting, and made it the chief subject\nof conversation for weeks after it occurred. In one of his letters\nCaptain Crewe told a most interesting story. A friend who had been at\nschool with him when he was a ... |
2,971 | 146_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara goes into the schoolroom for her big party and even gets Miss Minchin to agree to let Becky stay. Duh, to watch, not to actually participate. Miss Minchin gives a big, fake speech about "dear Sara" and thanks her for coming to the school. Then Sara gets her last doll with a trunkful of fancy clothes for it. Howeve... | [
"The Diamond Mines Again",
"When Sara entered the holly-hung schoolroom in the afternoon, she did\nso as the head of a sort of procession. Miss Minchin, in her grandest\nsilk dress, led her by the hand. A manservant followed, carrying the\nbox containing the Last Doll, a housemaid carried a second box, and\nBec... |
2,972 | 146_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara is wrecked, obviously, but Miss Minchin wants her to just get on ASAP. She sends away Mariette and takes all of Sara's nice stuff, and then tells her that she's going to sit with the younger children to watch over them and keep them quiet. So Sara pretty much becomes another little drudge at Miss Minchin's school,... | [
"In the Attic",
"The first night she spent in her attic was a thing Sara never forgot.\nDuring its passing she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe of which\nshe never spoke to anyone about her. There was no one who would have\nunderstood. It was, indeed, well for her that as she lay awake in the\ndarkness her... |
2,973 | 146_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The other person who helps Sara get through some rough times is Lottie, who adores her and can't figure why Sara looks all shabby now. Lottie somehow gets up to Sara's room and starts crying because it's so bad. Sara bravely tells her that the room isn't so bad and that she can see all sorts of things from the attic. T... | [
"Melchisedec",
"The third person in the trio was Lottie. She was a small thing and did\nnot know what adversity meant, and was much bewildered by the\nalteration she saw in her young adopted mother. She had heard it\nrumored that strange things had happened to Sara, but she could not\nunderstand why she looked d... |
2,974 | 146_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's dangerous for Ermengarde and Lottie to come visit Sara though, because they'll all get into a lot of trouble if they're ever found out. So Sara goes about her days and does all her errands alone, scurrying around like a little beggar. When she's walking home sometimes, she sees the Large Family, a family that live... | [
"The Indian Gentleman",
"But it was a perilous thing for Ermengarde and Lottie to make\npilgrimages to the attic. They could never be quite sure when Sara\nwould be there, and they could scarcely ever be certain that Miss\nAmelia would not make a tour of inspection through the bedrooms after\nthe pupils were supp... |
2,975 | 146_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara spends her time up in the attic looking out onto the roof and into the sky. She's watching the sun set one day when she sees a Lascar with a monkey climb out onto the roof. They smile at each other. The monkey suddenly breaks loose and runs over to Sara's roof, where it lands on her shoulder and scurries into her ... | [
"Ram Dass",
"There were fine sunsets even in the square, sometimes. One could only\nsee parts of them, however, between the chimneys and over the roofs. From the kitchen windows one could not see them at all, and could only\nguess that they were going on because the bricks looked warm and the\nair rosy or yellow ... |
2,976 | 146_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara likes to imagine what's going on in the house next door with the Indian gentleman. She becomes fond of him even though she doesn't know him and figures out that he's actually an Englishman who had lived in India and went through a series of unfortunate events... having to do with some diamond mines. She tries to s... | [
"The Other Side of the Wall",
"When one lives in a row of houses, it is interesting to think of the\nthings which are being done and said on the other side of the wall of\nthe very rooms one is living in. Sara was fond of amusing herself by\ntrying to imagine the things hidden by the wall which divided the\nSele... |
2,977 | 146_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winter is coming--and it's no fun for Sara and Becky, who are hungry and cold all the time. Sara tries to keep them warm by telling stories of warm places, but, you know, it's just not the same as a nice toasty fire. While running an errand on a cold, wet day, Sara thinks how nice it would be to find some money, buy so... | [
"One of the Populace",
"The winter was a wretched one. There were days on which Sara tramped\nthrough snow when she went on her errands; there were worse days when\nthe snow melted and combined itself with mud to form slush; there were\nothers when the fog was so thick that the lamps in the street were\nlighted a... |
2,978 | 146_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Sara is out and about for the day, an odd thing happens--and only Melchisedec is there to witness it. Melchisedec is chilling, just minding his own business when the skylight opens and two people crawl through. Oh no! Could it be thieves?! No, it's just Ram Dass and a young man, the Indian gentleman's secretary. ... | [
"What Melchisedec Heard and Saw",
"On this very afternoon, while Sara was out, a strange thing happened in\nthe attic. Only Melchisedec saw and heard it; and he was so much\nalarmed and mystified that he scuttled back to his hole and hid there,\nand really quaked and trembled as he peeped out furtively and with\... |
2,979 | 146_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara passes by the Indian gentleman's house and sees him looking lonely and unhappy. What's he thinking? About little Ralph Crewe's daughter, of course. When she returns, the cook tells her that she's not allowed to have anything to eat but some bread, even though she had no dinner. Sara gets the old, hard bread and cl... | [
"The Magic",
"When Sara had passed the house next door she had seen Ram Dass closing\nthe shutters, and caught her glimpse of this room also.",
"\"It is a long time since I saw a nice place from the inside,\" was the\nthought which crossed her mind.",
"There was the usual bright fire glowing in the grate, and... |
2,980 | 146_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For the rest of the evening, Becky and Sara drink tea and eat good food and basically have a jolly good time. Lavinia and Jessie gossip about what's happened at school, and everyone expects that Sara will look very ill and unhappy when she comes downstairs the next morning. But in fact, Sara trots down all happy and he... | [
"The Visitor",
"Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they\ncrouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made so much of itself\nin the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and\nfound rich, hot, savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and\nsandwiches and toast ... |
2,981 | 146_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the Large Family is at Mr. Carrisford's house trying to cheer him up because Mr. Carmichael still hasn't found Ralph Crewe's child. Ooh, ooh! Pick us! We know where she is! Anyway, Mr. Carrisford is really bummed out and just about ready to give up. At that very moment, Ram Dass comes in and says that the... | [
"\"It Is the Child!\"",
"The next afternoon three members of the Large Family sat in the Indian\ngentleman's library, doing their best to cheer him up. They had been\nallowed to come in to perform this office because he had specially\ninvited them. He had been living in a state of suspense for some time,\nand tod... |
2,982 | 146_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Carmichael explains everything, since, you know, men can't explain anything, right???? Sara asks if Mr. Carrisford was her father's wicked friend. Well, kind of, only he's not actually wicked. He only thought he had lost her father's money and that he was so sad about her father that he too almost died. They also ... | [
"\"I Tried Not to Be\"",
"It was pretty, comfortable Mrs. Carmichael who explained everything.\nShe was sent for at once, and came across the square to take Sara into\nher warm arms and make clear to her all that had happened. The\nexcitement of the totally unexpected discovery had been temporarily\nalmost overpo... |
2,983 | 146_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sara tells the children in the Large Family all about her story, which they love--especially the part about the magical things that appeared in her attic room. Mr. Carrisford tells his part of the story and says that Ram Dass thought of the idea of sneaking over to Sara's room and making it magical and warm--and that M... | [
"Anne",
"Never had such joy reigned in the nursery of the Large Family. Never\nhad they dreamed of such delights as resulted from an intimate\nacquaintance with the little-girl-who-was-not-a-beggar. The mere fact\nof her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession.\nEverybody wanted to be told ove... |
2,984 | 13434_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, a military psychologist at the Craiglockhart mental facility in Scotland, reads a letter published by Siegfried Sassoon, a British second lieutenant. In his missive, Sassoon decries the meaningless violence of the interminable Great War. Rivers then discusses the letter and Sassoon, a potential pat... | [
"INTRODUCTORY",
"WHAT IS THE SALVATION ARMY?",
"If this question were put to the ordinary person of fashion or\nleisure, how would it be answered?",
"In many cases thus: 'The Salvation Army is a body of people dressed up\nin a semi-military uniform, or those of them who are women, in\nunbecoming poke bonnets,... |
2,985 | 13434_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sassoon and Dr. Rivers meet for tea and discuss Sassoon's beliefs about war. Sassoon explains that he no longer dislikes the Germans, but rather, his anger is focused on British citizens and non-combatants who remain apathetic to the great suffering of soldiers in combat. He admits to exposing himself to excessive dang... | [
"MEN'S SOCIAL WORK, LONDON",
"THE MIDDLESEX STREET SHELTER",
"The first of the London Institutions of the Salvation Army which I\nvisited was that known as the Middlesex Street Shelter and Working\nMen's Home, which is at present under the supervision of Commissioner\nSturgess. This building consists of six flo... |
2,986 | 13434_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sassoon meets Graves and directs him to Dr. Rivers. Graves, who has recently undergone treatment for shell-shock, explains to Dr. Rivers why he convinced Sassoon to accept placement in the hospital: He believes that Sassoon's long-term health depends on maintaining his bond with his soldiers. Being court-martialed woul... | [
"THE SPA ROAD ELEVATOR",
"BERMONDSEY",
"The next Institution that I inspected was that of a paper-sorting\nworks at Spa Road, Bermondsey, where all sorts of waste paper are\ndealt with in enormous quantities. Of this stuff some is given and\nsome is bought. Upon delivery it goes to the sorters, who separate it\... |
2,987 | 13434_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anderson, a combat medic, describes a dream in which he is pinned down naked and bound with corsets while his father-in-law jabs at him with a staff that has a serpent curled around it. Anderson then becomes defensive, mocking Freudian theories and daring Dr. Rivers to interpret his dream. The psychologist connects the... | [
"THE GREAT PETER STREET SHELTER",
"WESTMINSTER",
"This fine building is the most up-to-date Men's Shelter that the\nSalvation Army possesses in London. It was once the billiard works of\nMessrs. Burroughes and Watts, and is situated in Westminster, quite\nnear to the Houses of Parliament. I visited it about eig... |
2,988 | 13434_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While doing his night rounds, Dr. Rivers is introduced to a new patient, Billy Prior, who suffers from selective mutism but also has horrific nightmares that leave him screaming. Prior is an officer from a blue-collar background, which was rare during the early 20th century. When Rivers first questions Prior, the patie... | [
"THE FREE BREAKFAST SERVICE",
"BLACKFRIARS SHELTER",
"On a Sunday in June I attended the Free Breakfast service at the\nBlackfriars Shelter. The lease of this building was acquired by the\nSalvation Army from a Temperance Company. Behind it lay contractors'\nstables, which were also bought; after which the prem... |
2,989 | 13434_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After his first night at Craiglockhart, Prior regains his voice. When Dr. Rivers visits him, though, Prior still refuses to cooperate. Prior senses the inherent power imbalance between a psychologist and patient, demanding to know why he must share personal information when the doctor doesn't reciprocate. Prior suggest... | [
"THE EX-CRIMINALS",
"On the afternoon of the Sunday on which I visited the Blackfriars\nShelter, I attended another service, conducted by Commissioner\nSturgess, at Quaker Street.",
"Here the room was filled by about 150 men, all of whom had been\nrescued, and were then working in the various Shelters or elsewh... |
2,990 | 13434_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior wakes up screaming again and Dr. Rivers comes to calm him. Billy admits that he wants to impress the doctor before taunting him with some sharp psychological insights, saying that Rivers's patients must all look at him as a "Daddy" figure. Dr. Rivers realizes that Prior has been reading one of his books and learn... | [
"THE MEN'S WORKSHOP HANBURY STREET, WHITECHAPEL",
"This Salvation Army carpentering and joinery shop has been in\nexistence for about fifteen years, but it does not even now pay its\nway. It was started by the Army in order to assist fallen mechanics by\ngiving them temporary work until they could find other situ... |
2,991 | 13434_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During one of his sessions, Prior describes participating in an attack in a detached and taunting manner. When Dr. Rivers presses him about his feelings, Prior responds frankly and aggressively that the experience was "sexy" and he felt a "burst of exultation" at seeing wounded soldiers on the ground. He reveals that d... | [
"STURGE HOUSE, BOW ROAD",
"This branch of the Men's Social Work of the Salvation Army is a home\nfor poor and destitute boys. The house, which once belonged to the\nlate Dr. Barnardo, has been recently hired on a short lease. One of\nthe features of the Army work is the reclamation of lads, of whom\nabout 2,400 h... |
2,992 | 13434_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During his meeting with Dr. Rivers, Prior expresses his anger at being confined to the hospital for two weeks after missing curfew. Prior explains that he was out looking for a woman and teases the doctor, asking whether or not he will be interrogated about it. When Dr. Rivers fails to respond, Billy changes the conver... | [
"THE CENTRAL LABOUR BUREAU",
"This Bureau is established in the Social Headquarters at Whitechapel,\na large building acquired as long ago as 1878. Here is to be seen the\nroom in which General Booth used to hold some of his first prayer\nmeetings, and a little chamber where he took counsel with those\nOfficers w... |
2,993 | 13434_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sarah and the other munitions girls share a cup of tea. Sarah is upset that Billy Prior did not show up for their date on Sunday, unaware that he was not allowed to leave Craiglockhart because he had violated curfew. Sarah's friends tease her for a few moments before discussing the dreaded return of Lizzie's husband, w... | [
"THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT",
"This is a curious and interesting branch of the work of the Salvation\nArmy. About two thousand times a year it receives letters or personal\napplications, asking it to find some missing relative or friend of the\nwriter or applicant. In reply, a form is posted or gi... |
2,994 | 13434_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Owen comes to visit Sassoon, interrupting the lieutenant while he is reading a letter from H. G. Wells, the famous science-fiction author. Owen and Sassoon continue discussing poetry and Sassoon gives Owen one of his poems to publish in the Hydra. He tells Owen about how Dr. Rivers has been pushing him to envision the ... | [
"THE EMIGRATION DEPARTMENT",
"Some years ago I was present one night in the Board-room at Euston\nStation and addressed a shipload of emigrants who were departing to\nCanada under the auspices of the Salvation Army. I forget their exact\nnumber, but I think it was not less than 500. What I do not forget,\nhowever... |
2,995 | 13434_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior is finally allowed off the hospital grounds and he goes to visit Sarah. Once he explains why he did not show up for their last appointment, she softens and agrees to travel to the coast with him. As they are walking along the beach, Prior becomes enraged with the civilians who are able to live their lives without... | [
"THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL WORK IN LONDON",
"At the commencement of my investigation of this branch of the\nSalvation Army activities in England, I discussed its general aspects\nwith Mrs. Bramwell Booth, who has it in her charge. She pointed out to\nme that this Women's Social Work is a much larger business than it was... |
2,996 | 13434_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Burns is nervous to face the medical review board, despite Dr. Rivers's assurances that he is recommending an unconditional discharge. During his appointment with Dr. Rivers, Prior admits that he had an asthma attack when he was on the trolley with Sarah because people around them were smoking heavily. Dr. Rivers infor... | [
"THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL WORK, LOWER CLAPTON ROAD",
"The Women's Social Headquarters of the Salvation Army in England is\nsituated at Clapton. It is a property of nearly three acres, on which\nstand four houses that will be rebuilt whenever funds are forthcoming\nfor the erection of the Maternity H... |
2,997 | 13434_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While on sick leave, Dr. Rivers visits his brother Charles, a chicken farmer. They attend church together, during which Dr. Rivers fixates on Christ's crucifixion and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac on the stained glass windows. The psychologist notes that Abraham and his son look smug. He reflects that "the bargain" of c... | [
"HILLSBOROUGH HOUSE INEBRIATES' HOME",
"Under the guidance of Commissioner Cox I inspected a number of the\nLondon Women's Institutions of the Army, first visiting the\nHillsborough House Inebriates' Home. This Home, a beautifully clean\nand well-kept place, has accommodation for thirty patients,\ntwenty-nine bed... |
2,998 | 13434_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Still on health leave, Dr. Rivers travels to visit Burns, who has been released from Craiglockhart and is living at his family's vacation home on the English shore. As the two walk to the Burns home from the train station, razor wire and sandbags remind the psychologist of the front, even though Burns seems oblivious t... | [
"THE MATERNITY NURSING HOME LORNE HOUSE, STOKE NEWINGTON",
"Her Royal Highness Princes Louise, the Duchess of Argyll, defrayed the\ncost of the purchase of the leasehold of this charming Home. The\nlady-Officer in charge informed me that the object of the\nestablishment is to take in women who have or are about t... |
2,999 | 13434_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Rivers returns to Craiglockhart and tells Bryce about the job offer in London. Bryce encourages him to accept it, explaining that he will most likely leave soon anyway due to his ongoing disagreements with his superiors on how the hospital should be run. Dr. Rivers cannot imagine being at Craiglockhart without Bryc... | [
"THE MATERNITY RECEIVING HOME BRENT HOUSE, HACKNEY",
"This Home serves a somewhat similar purpose as that at Lorne House,\nbut the young women taken in here while awaiting their confinement are\nnot, as a rule, of so high a class.",
"In the garden at the back of the house about forty girls were seated\nin a kin... |
3,000 | 13434_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sarah meets her mother, Ada, for lunch. Ada, a suspicious and hard woman, quickly extracts the story of Sarah's romance with Billy. She then warns her daughter that every tenth condom has been pricked with a hole and goes on to assert that if Sarah has sex with her suitors, they will never marry her. Ada wishes her dau... | [
"THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL IVY HOUSE, HACKNEY",
"This Hospital is one for the accommodation of young mothers on the\noccasion of the birth of their illegitimate children. It is a humble\nbuilding, containing twenty-five beds, although I think a few more can\nbe arranged. That it serves its purpose well, until the la... |
3,001 | 13434_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior attends his board hearing. The internal tension between his ambition to prove himself on the battlefield and his desire to live nearly paralyzes Prior, and Dr. Rivers empathizes with him. Outside the hearing, Sassoon and several other soldiers wait for their own hearings, increasingly nervous as their appointment... | [
"'THE NEST', CLAPTON",
"When I began to write this book, I determined to set down all things\nexactly as I saw or heard them. But, although somewhat hardened in\nsuch matters by long experience of a very ugly world, I find that\nthere are limits to what can be told of such a place as 'The Nest' in\npages which ar... |
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