Rilla of Ingleside

By Montgomery, Lucy Maud

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Title:	Rilla of Ingleside
Author:	Montgomery, Lucy Maud
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: Chapter 1. GLEN ?NOTES? AND OTHER MATTERS It was a warm, golden?cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living?room at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four o?clock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six that morning, felt that she had fairly earned an hour of repose and gossip. Susan just then was perfectly happy; everything had gone almost uncannily well in the kitchen that day. Dr. Jekyll had not been Mr. Hyde and so had not grated on her nerves; from where she sat she could see the pride of her heart the bed of peonies of her own planting and culture, blooming as no other peony plot in Glen St. Mary ever did or could bloom, with peonies crimson, peonies silvery pink, peonies white as drifts of winter snow. Susan had on a new black silk blouse, quite as elaborate as anything Mrs. Marshall Elliott ever wore, and a white starched apron, trimmed with complicated crocheted lace fully five inches wide, not to mention insertion to match. Therefore Susan had all the comfortable consciousness of a well?dressed woman as she opened her copy of the Daily Enterprise and prepared to read the Glen ?Notes? which, as Miss Cornelia had just informed her, filled half a column of it and mentioned almost everybody at Ingleside. There was a big, black headline on the front page of the Enterprise, stating that some Archduke Ferdinand or other had been assassinated at a place bearing the weird name of Sarajevo, but Susan tarried not over uninteresting, immaterial stuff like that; she was in quest of something really vital. Oh, here it was ?Jottings from Glen St. Mary.? Susan settled down keenly, reading each one over aloud to extract all possible gratification from it. Mrs. Blythe and her visitor, Miss Cornelia alias Mrs. Marshall Elliott were chatting together near the open door that led to the veranda, through which a cool, delicious breeze was blowing, bringing whiffs of phantom perfume from the garden, and charming gay echoes from the vine?hung corner where Rilla and Miss Oliver and Walter were laughing and talking. Wherever Rilla Blythe was, there was laughter. There was another occupant of the living?room, curled up on a couch, who must not be overlooked, since he was a creature of marked individuality, and, moreover, had the distinction of being the only living thing whom Susan really hated. All cats are mysterious but Dr. Jekyll?and?Mr. Hyde ?Doc? for short was trebly so. He was a cat of double personality or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil. To begin with, there had been something uncanny about the very dawn of his existence. Four years previously Rilla Blythe had had a treasured darling of a kitten, white as snow, with a saucy black tip to its tail, which she called Jack Frost.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Rilla of Ingleside, 1 -- Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1 -- Chapter I. GLEN NOTES AND OTHER MATTERS, 2 -- Chapter II. DEW OF MORNING, 6 -- Chapter III. MOONLIT MIRTH, 8 -- Chapter IV. THE PIPER PIPES, 15 -- Chapter V. THE SOUND OF A GOING, 21 -- Chapter VI. SUSAN, RILLA, AND DOG MONDAY MAKE A RESOLUTION, 29 -- Chapter VII. A WAR?BABY AND A SOUP TUREEN, 33 -- Chapter VIII. RILLA DECIDES, 38 -- Chapter IX. DOC HAS A MISADVENTURE, 42 -- Chapter X. THE TROUBLES OF RILLA, 45 -- Chapter XI. DARK AND BRIGHT, 51 -- Chapter XII. IN THE DAYS OF LANGEMARCK, 56 -- Chapter XIII. A SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE, 59 -- Chapter XIV. THE VALLEY OF DECISION, 64 -- Chapter XV. UNTIL THE DAY BREAK, 68 -- Chapter XVI. REALISM AND ROMANCE, 72 -- Chapter XVII. THE WEEKS WEAR BY, 79 -- Chapter XVIII. A WAR?WEDDING, 85 -- Chapter XIX. THEY SHALL NOT PASS, 92 -- Chapter XX. NORMAN DOUGLAS SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING, 96 -- Chapter XXI. LOVE AFFAIRS ARE HORRIBLE, 99 -- Chapter XXII. LITTLE DOG MONDAY KNOWS, 102 -- Chapter XXIII. AND SO, GOODNIGHT, 106 -- Chapter XXIV. MARY IS JUST IN TIME, 108 -- Chapter XXV. SHIRLEY GOES, 113 -- Chapter XXVI. SUSAN HAS A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE, 118 -- Chapter XXVII. WAITING, 123 -- Chapter XXVIII. BLACK SUNDAY, 130 -- Chapter XXIX. WOUNDED AND MISSING, 133 -- Chapter XXX. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE, 135 -- Chapter XXXI. MRS. MATILDA PITTMAN, 138 -- Chapter XXXII. WORD FROM JEM, 143 -- Chapter XXXIII. VICTORY!, 147 -- Chapter XXXIV. MR. HYDE GOES TO HIS OWN PLACE AND SUSAN TAKES A -- HONEYMOON, 149 -- Chapter XXXV. RILLA?MY?RILLA!, 151