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Kikoeru kashira
Do you hear? Hooves beating
Original story by Lucy Maud Montgomery
AKAGE NO ANNE
Hizume no oto
A carriage goes through the gentle hills
Yuruyakana oka wo nutte
Kaketekuru basha
Someone comes to pick me up
Mukae ni kuru no mukae ni kuru no ne
And takes me
Dare ka ga
Watashi wo tsureteyuku no ne
Shiroi hana no michi he
To the avenue with white flowers
To the home of wind
Kaze no furusato he
He takes me
Tsureteyuku no ne
I'm sure
Tsureteyuku no ne
Diana's Birthday
Anne and Diana had regained their original way of life
and it was now a cold February.
One, two, three, four,
five?
Oh, what could it be?
Marilla, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?
Why?
Haven't you both talked in the snow for over half an hour just now?
But she wants to see me! She has something very important to tell me.
How do you know she has?
She just signaled to me.
We have arranged a way to signal with our candles and cardboard.
You'll be setting fire to the curtains with your signaling nonsense.
Oh, we're very careful, Marilla.
Diana just send a signal of that she has something important to reveal,
and I'm really suffering to know what it is.
Well, you needn't suffer any longer.
You can go.
But you're to be back here in just ten minutes, remember that.
Alright.
Close the door!
Oh, Marilla, what do you think?
You know tomorrow is Diana's birthday.
Well, her mother told her she could ask me to go home with her from school,
and stay all night with her.
Her cousins are coming over from Newbridge to go to the Debating Club concert
at the hall tomorrow night. And they are going to take Diana and me to the concert.
If you'll let me go, that is.
You will, won't you, Marilla?
Oh, I feel so excited.
You can calm down then, because you're not going.
That club concert, it's all nonsense.
And little girls should not be allowed to go out to such places at all.
Oh, I'm sure the Debating Club is a most respectable affair.
I'm not saying it isn't.
But you're not going to begin gadding about to concerts
and staying out all hours of the night.
I'm surprised at Mrs. Barry's letting Diana go.
But it's such a very special occasion,
Diana has only one birthday in a year. It isn't as if birthdays were common things.
And the minister is going to take part, he's going to give an address.
That will be the same thing as a sermon.
Please, mayn't I go, Marilla?
You heard what I said, didn't you? Take off your boots now and go to bed.
It's past eight.
There's just one more thing, Marilla.
Mrs. Barry told that we might sleep in the spare-room bed.
Think of the honor of your little Anne being put in the spare-room bed.
It's an honor you'll have to get along without.
Go to bed, Anne.
And don't let me hear another word out of you.
Well now, Marilla, I think you ought to let Anne go.
I don't then.
Who's bringing this child up, Matthew?
You or me?
Well now, you.
Don't interfere then.
Well now...
I ain't interfering. It ain't interfering to have your own opinion.
And my opinion is that you ought to let Anne go.
You'd think I ought to let Anne go to the moon if she took the notion.
I might have let her spend the night with Diana,
but I don't approve of this concert plan.
She'd go there and catch cold like as not,
and have her head filled up with nonsense and excitement.
It would unsettle her for a week.
I understand that child's disposition
and what's good for it better than you, Matthew.
I think you ought to let Anne go.
Why are you taking so long, Anne?
If you don't hurry you'll be late to School.
I think you ought to let Anne go.
Very well, she can go,
since nothing else'll please you.
Oh, Marilla, say those blessed words again.
I guess once is enough to say them.
This is Matthew's doings and I wash my hands of it.
If you catch pneumonia sleeping in a strange bed
or coming out of that hot hall in the middle of the night, don't blame me!
Blame Matthew.
Thank you, Marilla!
My heart was just set on going to that concert.
I never was to a concert in my life,
and when the other girls talk about them in school I feel so out of it.
Oh, Marilla...
Matthew knew just how I felt about it.
He understands me, and it's so nice to be understood, Marilla.
I never agreed, so don't go thinking I understand.
Don't be like this, your hands are still wet.
I've been waiting at the brook so long.
I was wandering if something had happened. You made me worried.
I forgot to ask the ten cents for the concert fee from Marilla.
I remembered suddenly and went back to get it.
Then Marilla permitted you to go?
Yes.
Anne was too excited about the concert, so she couldn't concentrate in the lessons.
Gilbert spelled her down in class
and left her clear out of sight in mental arithmetic.
However in view of the concert
and the spare-room bed, her humiliation was bearable.
For Anne the real excitement began with the dismissal of school.
The tea that Mrs. Barry prepared was perfect for Diana's birthday.
Then they experimented with at least half a dozen different ways of arranging their hair
but in the end they decided to go with their original.
Anne could not help a little pang at her plain black tam and shapeless,
tight-sleeved, homemade gray-cloth.
But she remembered she had an imagination and could use it.
My cousins are here.
Welcome!
Hello, Diana!
Hello!
Tommy, good evening!
Good evening!
Anne and Diana, enjoyed their trip to the club.
The program that night
was a series of "thrills" for at least one listener in the audience.
The carnations on Prissy's head are real.
No way?
Master Philips bought them from town personally for her.
Really?
I climbed the slimy ladder. dark, without one ray of light...
Anne shivered in luxurious sympathy by prissy's recital.
When the choir sang, Anne listened as if the room was full of angels,
and laughed when Sam Sloane
proceeded to explain and illustrate "How Sockery Set a Hen".
I come to bury Caesar,
not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them.
The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
For Brutus is an honourable man.
Mr. Phillips gave Mark Antony's oration
over the dead body of Caesar in the most heart-stirring tones,
looking at Prissy at the end of every sentence.
Anne forgot everything he did to her and applauded to him.
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar.
Only one number on the program failed to interest her.
A soldier of the Legion from Bingen lay dying in Algiers.
The dying soldier said to a comrade:
"Take a message to some distant people."
"One of them is my dear sister."
"There's another, -- not a sister."
"There's another, -- not a sister:"
"in the happy days gone by, you'd have known her by..."
Besides that number,
Anne thoroughly enjoyed herself that night.
They talked constantly about it after the concert ended.
It was eleven when they arrived at Orchard Slope, sated with dissipation.
Everybody seemed asleep and the house was dark and silent.
Oh, Anne, how could you pretend not to listen to Gil?
When he came to the line, "THERE'S ANOTHER, not A SISTER,
he looked right down at you.
Diana, you are my bosom friend,
but I cannot allow even you to speak to me of that person.
Let's run a race and see who'll get to the bed first.
All right!
Ready... Go!
Merciful goodness!
Oh, who was it... What was it?
It was Aunt Josephine. I don't know why she was there.
But I know she will be furious.
It's dreadful,
but did you ever know anything so funny, Anne?
Who is your Aunt Josephine?
She's father's aunt and she lives in Charlottetown.
She's awfully old,
and I don't believe she was EVER a little girl.
We were expecting her out for a visit, but not so soon.
She's awfully prim and proper and she'll scold dreadfully about this.
Well, we'll have to sleep with Minnie May and you can't think how she kicks.
Miss Josephine Barry did not appear at the early breakfast the next morning.
Diana preserved a discreet silence
so nothing happened until Anne returned to Green Gables.
Diana! Diana!
Yes!
Diana, did you really jump onto your aunt yesterday?
I've told you already, you don't have to listen to her.
And I won't be staying here.
I shall return home tomorrow.
Aunt, please reconsider.
No. I will be going.
I've already packed up and can move away anytime.
And about your child's music fees.
I suppose you should forget about them,
I will have nothing to do with such a tomboy.
A person like her has no right to take music lessons.
Diana, apologize to your aunt right now!
That's useless! I don't want to talk with her at all!
Aunt, I am very sorry.
Anne was in blissful ignorance of the disturbance resulted in the Barry household
until the late afternoon, when she went down to Mrs. Lynde's on an errand for Marilla.
Anne would not allow her best friend to get into trouble
for something she suggested.
When she left Mrs. Lynde's she took her way across the crusted fields to Orchard Slope.
I Heard that your Aunt Josephine was very cross about it, wasn't she?
Yes.
She was fairly dancing with rage.
She says she won't stay and I'm sure I don't care.
But Father and Mother do.
Why didn't you tell them it was my fault?
It's likely I'd do such a thing, isn't it?
I'm no telltale, and anyhow I was just as much to blame as you.
Well, I'm going in to tell her myself.
Anne Shirley, you'd never!
Why, she'll eat you alive!
Don't frighten me any more than I am frightened.
I'd rather walk up to a cannon's mouth.
But I've got to do it, Diana.
It was my fault and I've got to confess.
I've had practice in confessing, fortunately.
Anne!
Come in.
Miss Josephine Barry.
Who are you?
I'm Anne of Green Gables, and I've come to confess, if you please.
Confess what?
That it was my fault about jumping into bed on you last night. I suggested it.
Diana would never have thought of such a thing.
Diana is a very ladylike girl, Miss Barry.
So you must see how unjust it is to blame her.
Oh, I must, hey?
But Diana did her share of the jumping at least.
Such carryings on in a respectable house!
But we were only in fun.
I think you ought to forgive us now that we've apologized, Miss Josephine Barry.
And anyhow, please forgive Diana and let her have her music lessons.
Diana's heart is set on her music lessons, Miss Barry,
and I know too well what it is to set your heart on a thing and not get it.
If you must be cross with anyone, be cross with me.
I've been so used to having people cross at me that I can endure it much better than Diana.
And what were you doing in the spare room?
Well, I dare say your claim to sympathy is just as strong as mine.
It all depends on the way we look at it.
Sit down here and tell me about yourself.
I am very sorry I can't.
It is my duty to go home to Miss Marilla Cuthbert.
Miss Marilla Cuthbert is a very kind lady who has taken me to bring up properly.
She is doing her best, but it is very discouraging work.
You must not blame her because I jumped on the bed.
But before I go I do wish you would tell me if you will forgive Diana
and stay just as long as you meant to in Avonlea.
I think perhaps I will if you will come over and talk to me occasionally.
So you have forgiven us?
I suppose.
Diana!
My, my, that was fast.
That evening Miss Barry gave Diana a silver bangle bracelet,
unpacked her valise once again,
and said...
I've made up my mind to stay simply for the sake of
getting better acquainted with that Anne-girl.
And Marilla's only comment to Matthew when she heard the story was...
I told you so.
That was all.
Miss Josephine Barry stayed her month out and over.
She was a more agreeable guest than usual, for Anne kept her in good humor.
When Miss Barry went away she said:
Remember, you Anne-girl, when you come to town you're to visit me
and I'll put you in my very sparest spare-room bed to sleep.
Anne had met another kindred spirit.
In the coming Spring,
Anne remembered her first days in Green Gables.
Next episode of Anne of Green Gables:
Green Gables In Spring
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