Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen Desired Pleasure

"Annie, it's time to do needlework." Marilla glanced at her watch and said to herself. At the same time, she looked out the window with sleepy eyes. "The time I set for activities has already exceeded half an hour. I thought I was playing with Diana, but unexpectedly I was sitting on the firewood stack with Marshall and chatting endlessly. This child, she knows that she needs to do sewing What a job, Marshall is a real problem too, listening to it like a fool. As for Annie, the more she talked, the more she could speak, and the more she talked, the more outrageous she became.Seems a little carried away.Hey, Annie? Jerry, come in right now!understood? "

Marilla tapped sharply on the west window with her fingertips.After hearing the greeting, Annie quickly ran back from the yard with reddish cheeks and unbraided red hair. "Oh, Marilla," Annie said to Marilla, panting. "Next week, the Sunday school will go on a field trip to an empty meadow in the Harmon Andreus Mountains near the 'Bibo Lake'. I heard that Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Linde are going to do it for us. Where's the ice cream. Marilla, can I go?" "Okay, okay, look at your watch, Anne, what time did I tell you to come back?" "It's two o'clock, but Marilla, don't you think that the field trip is very unimportant to you? Can I go at all? Although I have dreamed of field trips in the past, but until now I haven't..."

"Yes, I told you to come back at two o'clock, but it's already a quarter past two. Annie, why are you so disobedient?" "It's not that I don't want to be obedient, I really want to be obedient, but the outing is so attractive to me, so I can't help but say a few words about the outing to Marshall, because Marshall is with me The most talkative person. Please, give me a sweet word, can I go or not? " "If I say what time I'll be back, I mean exactly what time I'll be back, not half an hour after I say I'll be back, and I don't need an excuse to talk to the most congenial person or anything like that.

The next thing is the field trip. Of course it’s okay to go, because you are also a Sunday school student, and other children will go too. I didn’t say that you should not go. " "But, but..." Annie stammered. "Diana said everyone had to bring a basket of food to share. I can't cook, Marilla, so, therefore, it doesn't matter if I don't have lantern sleeves, but if it's because I can't bring a It would be embarrassing to have to give up the outing because of the food in the basket. Ever since Diana said that, I've been scowling. " "Well, don't worry. I'll make you something."

"Really, Marilla! You love me so much, thank you so much!" After Annie finished speaking, she threw herself into Marilla's arms, and kissed Marilla's face, which was pale in color. Marilla was kissed by a child for the first time in her life, and there was an indescribable sweetness in her heart, which quickly spread through her whole body.Anne's bold move made Marilla extremely happy, but because of this, her tone became haughty and cold. "Okay, okay, a kiss is good, but the important thing is to do it in a proper manner as I said. I plan to teach you how to cook in a few days, but it's still a bit sloppy anyway, and I want to wait until you calm down before starting.Cooking is not good if you can't concentrate on it, and it's even worse if you're absent-minded in the middle.

Now, go and get those moccasins, and try to sew them into a square before tea. " "I don't like these moccasins," babbled Anne displeasedly, as she retrieved her work-box and sat down in front of the pile of red and white argyle. "I thought it would be a pleasant needlework, but there was a pile of rags in front of me, and there was no room for fantasy. I finished one, and then I sewed another, and even so, it still didn't seem to make any progress. Of course, a life of sewing was always better for Anne in Green Gables than a playful, homeless Anne, but if sewing time could be with Diana and me It would be nice if the playing time went by just as quickly.

"Hey, Marilla, don't you think it's strange. Generally speaking, when it's time for fantasy, I can't do without fantasy. Fantasy is my best skill. Diana is a little weaker in this area, and I need to work harder. You see, there is an ordinary mountain on the other side of the creek between our farm and Barry Mountain, that is William Bell Mountain. There is a small circle of birch trees growing in a corner there, it is a very romantic place. "I played house with Diana there, and I named it 'Idol Wilton'. It's a poetic name. I racked my brains and thought about it for a whole night to come up with this name. Just when I was about to fall asleep, an inspiration flashed in my mind as if inspired by God. When I told Diana, she could hear God, anyway, it was too difficult to come up with this name.

"Our house is well built. Come and see it, please, Marilla. Those big lichen-covered rocks make for chairs, and the boards put on the branches make shelves. some plates and such, of course they were broken plates, but we took them as new plates, it was simple. There were also some fragments of plates with red and yellow ivy patterns, which were very beautiful , to put in the living room, and the goblin mirror, the goblin mirror is so beautiful, Diana found it in the woods behind the chicken coop, it's full of rainbows, but those rainbows are not grown up, they are still infancy The rainbow, which is a fragment of a chandelier that Diana's mother used to use, is most likely to be imagined as a prom night when all the leprechauns disappear. So called the leprechaun's mirror. The table was made for us by Marshall. Oh, Also, there's a little round pool in the Barry family's field, we call it 'Willow Pond', I'm quoting from a book that Diana lent me, it's an exciting book, the book The heroine in the novel has five lovers! If I were to have one, I would be satisfied. Don’t you think so? The heroine is a peerless beauty who has encountered all kinds of hardships in her life. After reading it, I am full of emotions.

"I'm a very strong person, although I'm thin, but I seem to be getting a little fat recently. What do you think? Every morning when I wake up, I wonder if I can get fat out of my dimples, and then I look at my elbows. "If the weather is fine next Wednesday, I'll go for a picnic in the new half-sleeve embroidered dress Diana gave me. If something happens and I can't go on a picnic, I can't bear it. Even so, I have to find a way to live. This is really a tragedy in my life.Even if I can go a hundred times in the future, it cannot replace this time.We're going to row the boat to the 'Blue Lake', as I said earlier, and there's ice cream to eat, I've never had ice cream, although Diana explained to me what ice cream is, but I still imagine Doesn't look like ice cream. "

"Annie, the watch has been running for 10 minutes, and you have been nagging for 10 minutes, can't you hold back within 10 minutes?" Marilla finally couldn't help but interjected. Anne kept her mouth shut according to Marilla's words, but from morning to night, whether she was thinking or talking, it was still an outing in her dreams. "It rained on Saturday, what if it rains until Wednesday?" Annie's thinking about the outing has reached the point of madness.In order to comfort her and calm her down, Marilla asked Annie to sew an extra floral piece. On the way home from church on Sunday, Anne confided to Marilla what was on her mind.When the preacher announced the outing loudly from the pulpit, she was so excited that her whole body trembled.

"Marilla, I never believed that the outing was real before. No matter how much I imagined it, it was useless. I only really believed it after the pastor announced it today." "You child, you're too deep into a dead end." Marilla sighed. "I see, on the long road ahead in life, there will still be many disappointments and discouragements waiting for you." "But, Marilla, isn't half the joy of longing?" interrupted Anne loudly. "Mrs. Lynde says that the more you expect, the greater your disappointment. But I think it's more annoying to expect nothing than to be disappointed." On this day, Marilla went to church wearing an amethyst pin as usual. It has become a habit for her. If she forgets to wear the pin, it is like forgetting to bring the Bible and the 10 cents for donations. , I always feel like I will be punished. This amethyst brooch was Marilla's most precious treasure. It was a gift from her uncle who was a sailor to Marilla's mother, and her mother left it to Marilla.This brooch was of primitive oval shape, and contained within it a lock of Marilla's mother's hair, surrounded by a ring of fine amethyst, which Marilla knew hardly anything about jewellery, and had no way of knowing to what class the amethyst belonged. Even so, Marilla still thought the brooch was the most beautiful thing in the world, and even though she couldn't see it, she felt good when she pinned it on the neckline of the tawny satin dress she was going out with. up. Annie, who saw the amethyst brooch for the first time, was both excited and envious and kept praising: "Oh, how beautiful this brooch is! Why do I have to wait until I go to pray or listen to a missionary to wear it? If it were me, it would be different. This amethyst It's so beautiful, I think it looks like a diamond, before, when I didn't see a real diamond, I read about it in a book and fantasized about its appearance. This piece of purple It must be a very beautiful stone. One day, I happened to see a woman wearing a real diamond ring on her finger, but it disappointed me. Of course, diamonds are beautiful, but It's not what I imagined it to be. Marilla, will I hold it for a while? Amethyst may be the soul of good boy Lavender?"