When she opened her eyes they were confronted by a musical box against the opposite wall - one of those early Bavarian toys where mechanical figures perform to the tune. 'How odd,' she thought. The little stage showed a group of fiddlers, two couples in costumes like those of the ball she had just quitted, and in a doorway at the side, a gypsy or beggar man. Very faintly the distant waltz came to her ears, but no footsteps ringing in the abandoned halls. With her hand pressed to her unsteady heart, acting under a sudden compulsion, she pushed down the lever. Delicate plucked music started up; the fiddlers sawed with their clumsy arms in time to an ethereal waltz. The couples moved jerkily out and each raised an arm to clasp its partner. To various clicks and rumbles from under the floor they began to revolve with each other and to orbit round the room. Their movements were sinister because of being both reluctant and predestined. Here they were and this is was what they must do. ("Many Coloured Glass")
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MONTGOMERY …I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. L.M. MONTGOMERY It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. L.M. MONTGOMERY I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a... L.M. MONTGOMERY There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At le... L.M. MONTGOMERY All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere. L.M. MONTGOMERY For a moment Anne's heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert's... L.M. MONTGOMERY You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams. L.M. MONTGOMERY Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So ther... L.M. MONTGOMERY There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. L.M. MONTGOMERY All things great are wound up with all things little. L.M. MONTGOMERY I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve. L.M. MONTGOMERY Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes L.M. MONTGOMERY Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not fo... L.M. MONTGOMERY Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unma... L.M. MONTGOMERY Oh, Charlotta dear, I'd have told you all about it if it were my secret...but it's Miss Lavendar's, ... L.M. MONTGOMERY You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from ... L.M. MONTGOMERY Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?” For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, ne... L.M. MONTGOMERY I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Gi... L.M. MONTGOMERY The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns ... L.M. MONTGOMERY I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves... L.M. MONTGOMERY Josie is a Pye,” said Marilla sharply, “so she can’t help being disagreeable. I suppose people... L.M. MONTGOMERY Isn't it good just to be a live on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missin... L.M. MONTGOMERY Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. L.M. MONTGOMERY Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and m... L.M. ELLIOTT You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley L.M. MONTGOMERY One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once. L.M. MONTGOMERY The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people wh... L.M. MONTGOMERY We ought always to try to influence others for good. L.M. MONTGOMERY There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think w... L.M. MONTGOMERY Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your ow... L.M. MONTGOMERY That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison. L.M. MONTGOMERY When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; ... L.M. MONTGOMERY There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things an... L.M. MONTGOMERY Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I stick... L.M. MONTGOMERY I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as... L.M. MONTGOMERY Once you have learned to judge a person by their heart and personality, rather than by their outward... L.M. HINDS We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon ... L.M. BROWNING Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne. L.M. MONTGOMERY I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person wo... L.M. MONTGOMERY I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'... L.M. MONTGOMERY I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then. L.M. MONTGOMERY It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a worl... L.M. MONTGOMERY Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mist... L.M. MONTGOMERY I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomf... L.M. MONTGOMERY I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful. L.M. MONTGOMERY I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of ... L.M. MONTGOMERY Belief acts as a temporary bridge when we are trying to accept something that seems incomprehensible... L.M. BROWNING It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think? L.M. MONTGOMERY Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders... L.M. MONTGOMERY