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L. MONTGOMERY
RAINBOW VALLEY
Москва, 2017
УДК 821.111
ББК 84
Lucy Montgomery
Rainbow Valley / L. Montgomery. – М. : T8RUGRAM, 2017. – 370 с.
ISBN 978-5-521-05124-3
«Радужная долина» – очередной бестселлер
известной канадской писательницы Люси Монтгомери, продолжающий увлекательное повествование о судьбе девочки-сироты. Анна – счастливая
жена и мать шестерых детей, живёт с мужем в
любимом Инглсайде. Но в их размеренную жизнь
вмешивается новый сосед-вдовец, священник
Джон Мередит, и его дети. Смогут ли они найти
общий язык и стать хорошими друзьями, или это
начало вражды, которая приведёт к катастрофическим последствиям?
Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
УДК 821.111
ББК 84
BIC FC
BISAC FIC000000
ISBN 978-5-521-05124-3 © T8RUGRAM, оформление, 2017
Contents
Lucy Maud Montgomery ................................................ 7
I. HOME AGAIN ........................................................... 9
II. SHEER GOSSIP ...................................................... 16
III. THE INGLESIDE CHILDREN ............................. 31
IV. THE MANSE CHILDREN ..................................... 40
V. THE ADVENT OF MARY VANCE ......................... 53
VI. MARY STAYS AT THE MANSE ............................. 72
VII. A FISHY EPISODE ............................................... 80
VIII. MISS CORNELIA INTERVENES ....................... 91
IX. UNA INTERVENES ............................................. 102
X. THE MANSE GIRLS CLEAN HOUSE ................. 117
XI. A DREADFUL DISCOVERY ............................... 127
XII. AN EXPLANATION AND A DARE ................... 134
XIII. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL ........................... 145
XIV. MRS. ALEC DAVIS MAKES A CALL ................ 159
Contents
XV. MORE GOSSIP ................................................... 172
XVI. TIT FOR TAT .................................................... 183
XVII. A DOUBLE VICTORY ..................................... 200
XVIII. MARY BRINGS EVIL TIDINGS .................... 214
XIX. POOR ADAM! ................................................... 221
XX. FAITH MAKES A FRIEND ................................ 227
XXI. THE IMPOSSIBLE WORD ............................... 235
XXII. ST. GEORGE KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT .......... 249
XXIII. THE GOOD-CONDUCT CLUB ................... 258
XXIV. A CHARITABLE IMPULSE............................. 274
XXV. ANOTHER SCANDAL AND ANOTHER
“EXPLANATION” ..................................................... 285
XXVI. MISS CORNELIA GETS A NEW POINT
OF VIEW ................................................................... 296
XXVII. A SACRED CONCERT ................................. 306
XXVIII. A FAST DAY ................................................. 312
Contents
XXIX. A WEIRD TALE .............................................. 319
XXX. THE GHOST ON THE DYKE ........................ 325
XXXI. CARL DOES PENANCE ................................. 332
XXXII. TWO STUBBORN PEOPLE ......................... 340
XXXIII. CARL IS—NOT—WHIPPED ...................... 349
XXXIV. UNA VISITS THE HILL ............................... 357
XXXV. “LET THE PIPER COME” ............................. 365
lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New
London), Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1874. Her
upbringing was both idyllic and devoutly religious, and
from the age of six she attended the Cavendish Schoolhouse.
A voracious reader, as a girl, Montgomery became enthralled
by Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, John Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) and Charles Dickens’s Pickwick
Papers (1836)
In 1889, at the age of fifteen, Montgomery had a poem
published in the newspaper, the Patriot. Four years later, she
became a teacher, and in 1895 sold her first short story for
five dollars. ree years later, Montgomery took a position
with the Halifax Chronicle’s evening edition, Daily Echo, as
proof reader and writer. She worked long hours, often only
finding the time and energy to do her own writing in the
early mornings before work.
In 1908, Montgomery published her most famous work:
Anne of Green Gables. Now considered a classic of children’s
literature, the novel has now sold more than 50 million
copies and been translated into twenty languages.
Montgomery went on to publish twenty novels – including
seven more as part of the Anne of Green Gables series – as
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well as around 500 short stories and poems. roughout
the early part of the 20th century she was one of the most
popular authors in the world. In 1923, she became the first
Canadian woman to join the Royal Society of Arts in Britain.
In 1935, she was awarded Officer of the Order of the British
Empire.
Despite all the accolades, by the depression of the thirties,
Montgomery’s professional and personal life was suffering.
Her work had stopped selling, and she began to suffer
from mental health issues. In 1938, she suffered a nervous
breakdown, and would remain on medication for the rest of
her life. Montgomery committed suicide in 1942, aged 67.
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Rainbow Valley
CHaPTeR i
HoMe aGain
IT was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four
Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden
west between its softly dark shores. e sea moaned eerily
on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial
wind came piping down the red harbour road along which
Miss Cornelia’s comfortable, matronly figure was making its
way towards the village of Glen St. Mary. Miss Cornelia was
rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall
Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to
her as Miss Cornelia than as Mrs. Elliott. e old name was
dear to her old friends; only one of them contemptuously
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dropped it. Susan Baker, the gray and grim and faithful
handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an
opportunity of calling her “Mrs. Marshall Elliott,” with the
most killing and pointed emphasis, as if to say “You wanted
to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as
I am concerned.”
Miss Cornelia was going up to Ingleside to see Dr. and
Mrs. Blythe, who were just home from Europe. ey had
been away for three months, having left in February to
attend a famous medical congress in London; and certain
things, which Miss Cornelia was anxious to discuss, had
taken place in the Glen during their absence. For one thing,
there was a new family in the manse. And such a family!
Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she
walked briskly along.
Susan Baker and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her
coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying
the charm of the cat’s light, the sweetness of sleepy robins
whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty
group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick
wall of the lawn.
Anne was sitting on the steps, her hands clasped over her
knee, looking, in the kind dusk, as girlish as a mother of
many has any right to be; and the beautiful gray-green eyes,
gazing down the harbour road, were as full of unquenchable
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