Chapter 29 Chapter 28 The Unlucky White Lily Girl

"Of course, it's up to Anne to play Ellen, and I don't have the guts to go there in a boat." Diana said. "Me neither," said Ruby Gillies tremblingly. "It's fun if two or three of us get in a boat and the boat goes on, but if the boat capsizes, don't we drown? You can't do that kind of thing, it's too horrible, you'll be drowned. " "It's so romantic, though," said Jenny Andrews. "I can't stay still and honestly like that. I'm always thinking about where the boat is, and I'll get up every minute to have a look, lest the boat go over the end. In this way, the kind of sentiment I'm pursuing Isn't it ruined, Anne?"

"But Ellen with the red hair is really strange," said Anne sadly. "I'm not scared at all of the boat ride. I want to play Ellen too, but it's too bad for me to play Ellen. Let Ruby do it. She's so beautiful with white skin and long hair. , blonde hair again. Isn’t Ellen just ‘shiny hair flowing’? Ellen is a white lily girl, how can a white lily girl with red hair do it?” "Isn't Anne as white as Ruby?" said Diana enthusiastically. "Annie's hair is a little darker than before she cut it off." "Really?" cried Anne without thinking, flushing with pleasure. "I've always wanted to come, too, but it would be dreadful if it wasn't. I haven't heard my hair turn tawny, Diana."

"Almost, that would be pretty," said Diana, gazing intently at Anne's satiny, short-cropped hair.A black velvet ribbon was beautifully tied on Anne's bare head. The four of them were standing by the pool below Orchard Slop, surrounded by birch trees like a breakwater.Directly in front of the pool is a small wooden platform used by fishermen or for hunting ducks, protruding from the top of the pool.Ruby and Jenny came to play here in the middle of summer, and Annie joined in. Anne and Diana spent most of the summer by this pool.Gone is the story of Edel Wilder's past.The Bell family cut down the grove in the pasture in the spring, and Anne was still weeping sadly on the stump of the felled tree.The warm atmosphere here once made Anne intoxicated, but thanks to Diana's persuasion, Anne cheered up again.

It's fun to play by the pool.Standing on the bridge to catch salmon is even more fun.Once they nearly burned the Barry family's duck dory. It was Anne who suggested rehearsing Ellen.They read Tennyson at school that winter.The Superintendent of Education has directed that the poet Tennyson should be mentioned in the teaching of English in Edward Island schools.However, when the school was teaching Tennyson, he made a detailed analysis of his works, and also analyzed the grammar, but the students' understanding of the meaning of the poem and the depth of the meaning are not well understood by the teachers. .The students all felt that the blond white lily girl, the knight Lancelot, the princess Ginbia [note], and King Arthur were lifelike characters, as if they would appear around them all the time.Anne secretly regretted that she was not born in Camelot. She once said that that era must have been very romantic.

Several people were very much in favor of Anne's proposal to play the game as Allen.Pushing the boat out of the boat yard, sitting in the boat under the bridge, and then paddling around the bend in the pool to the downstream tip, rehearsed Ellen's route was just right. "Okay, I'll play Ellen." Annie promised reluctantly.Annie is happy to be able to play the leading role, but she always feels that it should be played by the corresponding person. She thinks she is not suitable. "Ruby will be King Arthur, Jenny will be Kinebia, Diana will be Lancelot, and someone else is needed to be Ellen's brother and father, except for the old servant. Lying on the boat alone, it is enough It was so full that there was no room for two people to sit. The top of the small canopy was also so full that even the black silk coffin could not cover it.

Diana, your mother has an old black shawl that fits you well. " Diana went home and brought back the shawl, and Anne spread it out over the boat, and lay down on it, with her eyes closed, and her hands on her breast. "Hey, it looks like she's really dead," Ruby said in a low, uneasy voice.Anne lay motionless, the shadows of the birch branches falling on her face. "Why do I feel so scary? We don't know if it's okay to act like this. After watching it, Mrs. Linde will definitely say that it would be bad for you to act like this." "Ruby, what's the matter with Mrs. Lynde? Did she say it's not okay?" Anne said sternly, "This happened hundreds of years before Mrs. Lynde was born. Can there be atmosphere if I don't act like this? Hey, it's Jenny's time to play Now that you are talented in acting, let's design some actions. Allen is dead, and it would be strange if a dead person could cry."

Jenny's appearance is not very pretty, she doesn't have a silver wire coat, so she has to use an old and yellowed Japanese silk piano cover instead; she doesn't have a white lily, so she has to use a long-stemmed, bluish-white broccoli instead, which looks pretty cool after a cold look. It's like a thing. "Ready!" said Jenny. "Back everyone, it's time to kiss quiet Ellen good-bye. It's time for Diana to say 'Farewell, sister'; Ruby says, 'My poor sister,' and you both must be as distressed as you can be. Annie, hey, I understand now, Allen should be smiling at this time, pretending to be lying on his back, that's fine, let's go to the boat."

Anne got into the boat immediately, and at this moment the bottom of the boat rubbed against the old wooden stakes buried in the soil. Diana, Jenny, and Ruby watched the boat drift towards the bridge, and then they immediately went to the boat. Walk to the woods.Lancelot and Kinebia in the play.King Arthur and others are going to the sharp corner downstream to meet the white lily girl.The boat slowly swayed and drifted downstream in the water, and Annie was immersed in romantic reverie for a while.However, at this moment, something unromantic happened. The boat suddenly began to flood, and Anne was at a loss.

"Alan" stood up from the boat with the "silver thread coat" and the black "coffin" in her hand and fell into a predicament. She stared blankly at the cracked bottom of the boat, and the water was soaking into the boat. When the boat drifted to the tip of the wooden pile in the dock, it got stuck again, the bottom of the boat was smashed, and the plank of the boat split and fell off. Annie didn't realize at this moment how dangerous it must be to go on like this, but she would soon.In this way, the boat finally drifted to the sharp corner downstream, and the boat was so full of water that it was almost sinking.Where are the oars?

It turned out that the oars had been forgotten in the dock. Annie was shocked when she saw this, and she couldn't help crying softly, but there was no one around, and crying was useless.Anne's lips quivered with fright, but at once she cheered up again.There is only one chance of rescue. "It terrified me at the time!" Anne said when she told Mrs. Alan about yesterday's dangerous situation the next day. "When the boat floated to the bridge, it seemed as if years had passed. It was too long. The water soaked into the boat bit by bit... I had no other choice but to pray to God earnestly, but I But I didn't close my eyes. There is only one way God can save me, right. As long as the boat can float towards the pile near the bridge, I can climb to the pile. Of course I have to pray at this time. I look carefully Looking around, realizing I had to, I prayed over and over: "'God, let the boat go over to the stakes, and I'll find my way there. ’ At this time, I tried my best to pick out good words, and I almost exhausted them. Soon, the boat hit the wooden post with a sucking sound and stopped.

"I put on the technical towel and the piano cover. Thanks to God, there was a big tree stump in front of me. I climbed up and didn't dare to move at all. Then I slipped off the slippery stake and had to use it Holding it tightly, the situation at that time was the opposite of romantic, but I can't care about that anymore, I have to be careful not to be drowned in water, romantic, whatever. "I continued to pray, and then I clung to the stake tightly, but if I want to get back to land, someone must come to rescue me." Abandoning Anne, the boat drifted away alone, and finally sank in the water.The three of Ruby, who were waiting for Annie at the tip of the downstream, saw the boat drifting in front of them and gradually sank into the water, they were frightened, "Ah", they thought that Annie also sank into the water together, and in an instant, the three of them looked very pale. Pale and frightened, his whole body stood erect and motionless as if frozen.After a while, the three people came to their senses, shouted loudly and ran desperately towards the woods, crossing the street, but there was no sign of Anne around the bridge. At this time, Anne was in an extremely dangerous situation, and she had to hold on to the stake tightly and not let go.She saw Ruby and the other three crying towards her. She thought they would come to rescue her soon, so she had to grit her teeth and persevere. Time passed by every minute and every second, and this unlucky white lily girl counted the time every minute. "Why didn't the few of them come? Where did they go? Did the three of them faint from fright? If this continues like this, no one will come to rescue..." Annie's hands and feet were stiff and exhausted. I can't catch it... what should I do? The slimy shadow of something squirmed beneath Anne's feet, and the ghastly green water around her.Her body trembled, and at first she decided not to disturb them, and began to imagine all kinds of dying. Just when Anne's wrists and fingertips were so painful that she could hardly bear it, Gilbert Bryce rowed the Andreus family's boat from under the bridge towards this side. He suddenly saw Annie struggling in the water with a pale face.He was taken aback by the look of contempt still on Anne's face in times of distress, and her big gray eyes opened wide. "Annie! What's the matter? How did you get there?" he cried. Before Anne could answer, he rowed the boat to the side of the pile and stretched out his hand.Having no choice, Annie had to drag him by the hand to climb onto the boat, and then sat down angrily holding the muddy, wet shawl and piano cover with both hands.In this embarrassing state, it was already quite difficult for Anne to maintain her former majesty. "What's going on? Anne!" Gilbert picked up the oar and asked. "I'm playing Ellen." Anne said coldly, without looking at Gilbert. "I was in a little boat, going to Camelot, and then the boat got flooded, and I climbed onto the pilings, and I yelled for them to come and save me, can you take me to the dock go." Gilbert enthusiastically rowed the boat to the dock, and Anne, determined not to hold his hand any longer, jumped nimbly onto the shore herself. "Thank you for saving me." Annie said a few words and was about to walk away. Gilbert also jumped off the boat, said "wait a minute", and caught up with Annie's hand. "Hello, Anne!" Gilbert stammered. "Can't we be friends? I used to laugh at your hair. I was wrong and made you angry. It was just a joke. Besides, that's a thing of the past. Your hair is now very It's beautiful, it's true, let's make up, huh?" In an instant, Annie hesitated, although her appearance was still cold.Annie's heart seemed to be filled with very good things. This was a wonderful feeling that she had tried for the first time, and her chest was beating non-stop. However, this feeling soon turned into a bad mood. .She began to waver again, and the previous resentment came back to her mind. The scene two years ago seemed to appear in front of her eyes as if it happened yesterday.She was slandered by Gilbert, humiliated in front of everyone, and perhaps among others, older, that incident had become a laughing stock for them. Anne's resentment for that event remained undiminished with the years, and she hated Gilbert and swore she would never forgive him. "No!" replied Anne icily. "We can never be friends, and we don't want to reconcile!" "I see!" Gilbert jumped into the boat, his face flushed with anger. "Up to now, I've begged you twice to say we'll make up, okay! Do as you please!" He grabbed the oars roughly, and as if angry, rowed desperately away. Anne stood on the little slope where the fern grew thickly under the maple trees, and turned her head away with a stern face. She felt regretful, and she couldn't even express this feeling.Indeed, Gilbert once brought great humiliation to Annie, but... when Annie was left alone, she really wanted to cry.Due to the side effect of mental relaxation, she felt as if Gilbert's terrifying eyes were staring at her. When Annie was halfway up the slope, she ran into Jenny and Diana.It turned out that the two of them ran back to the pond like crazy just now, and sent rescuers, but the Barry and his wife were not at home.Ruby went into a hysterical fit from the shock.Leaving Ruby alone, they let themselves slowly recover, and the two of them walked through the "ghost forest", crossed the creek, and ran to Anne's house. There was no one at home, and Marilla went to Carmody. Marshall was drying hay in the field behind. "Oh! Annie!" Panting, Diana hugged Annie's neck for a long time. Seeing that Annie was fine, she cried with joy. "Annie... I thought you were drowned... I felt like... I killed someone... We...forced you to play... Ellen. Ruby's hysterical attack again...Annie , how did you come back?" "I climbed onto the stake," said Anne wearily. "Later, Gilbert rowed past there, and I took his boat to get back to shore." "Oh! Annie, isn't that amazing? Doromantic!" Jenny was finally able to speak. "Shouldn't you be talking to Gilbert from now on?" "No! Don't say it!" Anne answered immediately and briskly, and for a moment she was in her former spirit again. "Jenny, from now on, you won't hear me talk about romance anymore, it's too scary, it's too bad to do this, it's because I'm not good that I hurt everyone. "My, my zodiac sign is an unlucky one, and whatever I do or don't do, I always get my best friend into trouble. Diana, this is sinking your father's ship too. , I have a premonition that I will never be able to play by the pool again.” The so-called prediction is usually unreliable, but Annie's estimation is completely correct. If they know what happened today, Barry and the Cuthbart family will be shocked and cause a big commotion. "You child, really, when will you be sensible!" Marilla blamed Annie after hearing this. "It's all right, Marilla," said Anne optimistically.After the incident was over, Annie cried bitterly alone in the East Wing, and her mind completely settled down. "I think I'm reasonable, and the odds of being a steadfast person are getting higher and higher." "why?" "That's right," Anne began to explain. "What happened today was a good lesson for me. Since I got here, I have been making troubles, but thanks to these troubles, I have corrected all my problems one by one.Through the "pin incident", I understand that I can't mess with other people's things; the "ghost forest" thing, educated me not to over-imagining indiscriminately; You have to be careful and focused; the hair-dye folly tells me no vanity.Now, I don't think about my hair or nose at all—I do think about it a little bit occasionally, although I have. "Today's incident is all because of my thinking about romance all day long. Now I understand that it is useless to find romance in Yaban. It is okay to find some romance in Camelot in the tower hundreds of years ago. Now I don't fuss about romance any more, lately I'm sure of that, Marilla." "That's good." In the end, Marilla was still suspicious of Annie. Marilla got up from the chair and went out. Marshall, who had been sitting in the usual place, put his hand on Annie's shoulder. "It's not enough to get rid of romance completely, Anne." Marshall whispered sheepishly. "It's good to be a little bit romantic, but it's not good to be too much, as long as you have a little bit in your heart..."