Anne of Green Gables Vol.
Ep. 28, The Christmas Concert
Christmas~
Concert~
Christmas morning, around Green Gables.
And broke on a beautiful white world.
Snow Queen, merry Christmas~
Birdies, merry Christmas~
Marilla, merry Christmas~
Merry Christmas~
Matthew, merry Christmas~
Anne, merry Christmas~
Actually I...
Isn't it a lovely Christmas? I'm so glad it's white.
It's a little hot, I also guess we would have a green Christmas.
Any other kind of Christmas doesn't seem real, does it?
I don't like green Christmas.
They're not green -
they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
What makes people call them green?
Actually...
Matthew?
This... is for you...
This is for me?
This is your Christmas present~
Matthew~
Are..are you okay Anne?
Don't you like it?
Well now-well now.
Like it! Oh, Matthew!
Matthew, it's perfectly exquisite.
Oh, I can never thank you enough. Look at those sleeves!
Oh, it seems to me this must be a happy dream.
If this goes on the new clothes shall be dampened with tears.
Matthew gave this to you, you must cherish it well.
Mrs. Lynde gave this to you.
She got you a ribbon for your hair.
Mrs. Lynde?
Brown like your clothes.
Matthew, can I change into them immediately?
Well now, I would like to see you in them too.
This is what happens when you let your heart go.
Matthew, I'll get changed quickly
Anne, shouldn't you have breakfast first?
The tea's getting cold~
Matthew you sit down too.
Right.
Marilla, I needn't eat breakfast.
I don't see how I'm going to eat it.
The dress won't sprout wings and fly away.
Breakfast seems so commonplace at such an exciting moment.
Eating breakfast is bad work.
I'd rather feast my eyes on that dress.
You may feast your eyes,
but you have a concert today.
If you don't eat some more,
you won't have the strength to perform.
At that poignant moment in time.
Don't mourn to me if your noises fail to impress the others
During puffed sleeves are still fashionable. I had a dress with them.
I'm so glad.
It's so nice to keep up with fashion.
It was lovely of Mrs. Lynde to give me the ribbon too.
It's at times like this I'm sorry I'm not a model little girl;
Although I decide to do well usually, when irresistible temptations come.
And I always resolve that I will be in future.
Still, I really will make an extra effort after this.
This is a worthy anniversary of my life,
the day I wore puffed sleeves.
I'll put my best efforts in!
Just like it's snowing for me.
It's Diana~
Diana~ Diana is walking over here
Really~
Diana~
Anne~
Diana, merry Christmas~
Anne, merry Christmas~
Diana, this is the best Christmas of all times~
I've something splendid to show you.
What do you think it is?
Matthew has given me the loveliest dress,
with SUCH sleeves.
I couldn't even imagine any nicer.
I've got something more for you.
Here-this box.
Aunt Josephine sent us out a big box with ever so many things in it.
And this is for you.
Aunt Josephine sent it for me?
Yes, open it up and see!
Diana, this looks too precious no matter what!
I must be dreaming!
I call it providential.
You won't have to borrow Ruby's slippers now,
and stuff a handkerchief into the shoe tip.
Oh Diana, did you tell Aunt Josephine?
Anne,
if you were too much like a fairy, Josie Pye would be delighted.
Diana, thank you~
This is truly like a dream.
Diana, could you pinch me?
All right~
I'm coming~
Diana, How to do?
What's wrong?
I don't feel pain at all~
It must be a dream~
Of course, because I only pretended to pinch you.
Diana, really!
Well? Does it fit?
Matthew what do you think?
Well, I feel it fits snugly.
For this dress, I shall work hard for tonight~
Matthew, thank you~
No... I just...
Oh no~
I had an appointment with Diana, I have to run~
We have to go early to decorate the hall.
Right~ I won't just talk about the concert when I'm back.
Let me put this on and recite for Matthew.
No... I... only...
Marilla would you listen too?
I'm sorry, I have no interest in this.
Why? Do you hate recitals?
Because I'm going to listen to your groans in the hall tonight.
Marilla, you...
Why are you so shocked?
Because you were so against concerts,
I thought you would never come~
Really, of course I would support a concert the school organizes.
Marilla~~
If you keep at that speed Diana will have to wait for a long time.
Oh no, I have to hurry~
Well...
Marilla, what's the opening for the concert?
Evening at 6, I know.
Anne, actually I...
Matthew, don't worry.
If my ankle hurts in the midst of the performance,
this dress will make me forget the pain
and continue reciting.
Matthew, Marilla, I'm off~
I...
I've also decided to go...
Matthew, what did you just say?
Well... I've decided to go~
You are going?
I definitely will.
What just happened? Matthew is going for a concert?
I... I just... didn't think of not going anyway.
That day
All the Avonlea scholars were in a fever of excitement,
for the hall had to be decorated and a last grand rehearsal held.
The hall is filled up quickly~
At 6 pm, the flag concert of Christmas of the Avonlea scholars will begin.
After 2 months of practice the performances will be exciting.
For first timers all have done very well~
The performances of the students...
...gained the warm reception of all the audience.
Your solo was perfectly elegant, Diana.
It captured the audience's heart
and they kept calling for an encore.
Anne was happier than any other for that.
Matthew~?
Anne, it's your turn~
This life and corpse has no difference,
It's eyes see and sees not,
Wretched soul which strives to survive,
The remorseful self keeps on like this,
Borrowed into death's representation, Now I...
When Anne knew that the people she hoped most for would be present,
she gave her whole heart and soul into her act.
Oh~~ My accursed destiny~
Please give me a gravestone,
If you would give me a dark dwelling,
You would hold this bone and beat,
Let my body thus lie here in peace...
Anne's sad recital...
...brought down the house with applause.
In the heated performances, Christmas night slowly descended.
This day, many different groups did many different plays.
When Anne and Josie Pye's un-fairylike appearances,
they made the Fairy Queen win over all.
As the skies exist~
Brighten the earth with the rays of the sun~
That warm heart,
Full of merciful love, Fairy Queen,
Today is your birthday,
Us servants should hold a grand celebration for you.
Fairy Queen, I have but a request for you.
Speak out your request firstly.
As late, in our village...
Under peals of tremendous laughter,
Anne and the girls finished the Fairy Queen play,
and while leaving the stage, something minute happened.
Of course, not too many knew of this.
With grand courage, say farewell to the deep valleys~
Oh wide valleys, farewell to the lush slopes within~
Farewell to the forest of no dwellers~
Farewell to fear and death~
Although in my heart I have my own plains,
yet it isn't nowhere~
My heart has it's own plains,
With another's help, let my narrow heart widen into a plain.
Since the Avonlea school set up,
the first concert by the student of primary school
It is the successful collections under trust, hope and love.
Oh, hasn't it been a brilliant evening?
Everything went off very well.
I guess we must have made as much as ten dollars.
That would be enough for the flag.
Mr. Allan is going to send an account of it to the Charlotte town papers.
Really?
Oh, Diana, will we really see our names in print?
It makes me thrill to think of it.
Your solo was perfectly elegant, Diana.
When they requested an encore.
I felt prouder than you did
I just said to myself, It is my dear best friend who is so honored.'
Well, your recitations just brought down the house, Anne.
Oh, I was so nervous, Diana.
My voice seemed to be coming from ever so far away.
Did I groan all right?
Yes, indeed, you groaned lovely.
I saw old Mrs. Sloane wiping away tears when I sat down.
Oh, it's been a very memorable occasion indeed.
Gilbert Blythe was just splendid. I think it's awful the way you treat Gil
Diana, please don't say that to me.
That night
Marilla and Matthew, who hadn't joined concert for the first time in 20 years,
sat for a while by the kitchen fire after Anne had gone to bed.
Well now, I guess our Anne did as well as any of them.
Yes, she did. She's a bright child, Matthew.
And she looked real nice too.
I've been kind of opposed to this concert scheme.
Anyhow, I was proud of Anne tonight,
although I'm not going to tell her so.
Well now, I was proud of her and I did tell her so before she went upstairs.
We must see what we can do for her some of these days, Marilla.
What do you mean by that?
By and by
I guess she'll need something more than Avonlea school.
There's time enough to think of that.
She's only thirteen in March.
Though tonight it struck me that she was growing quite a big girl.
Right~
Girls need to dress up a little.
She's quick to learn
and I guess the best thing we can do for her will be to send her to Queen's.
The Queens, indeed~
But nothing need be said about that for a year or two yet.
Well now, it'll do no harm to be thinking it over off and on.
Things like that are all the better for lots of thinking over.
We're thinking of all that even before her 2nd anniversary here.
Yes~
Avonlea goes back to normal after the concert
and Anne and Diana begins a new club!
Next: Anne Starts the Story-telling Club
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