{"product_id":"2940013519480","title":"CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I. The Hurrying of Ludovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II. Old Lady Lloyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III. Each In His Own Tongue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV. Little Joscelyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V. The Winning of Lucinda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI. Old Man Shaw's Girl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII. Aunt Olivia's Beau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IX. Pa Sloane's Purchase\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        X. The Courting of Prissy Strong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XI. The Miracle at Carmody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XII. The End of a Quarrel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRONICLES OF AVONLEA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. The Hurrying of Ludovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Shirley was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dix's\u003cbr\u003esitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair\u003cbr\u003estarland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight\u003cbr\u003eof her vacation at Echo Lodge, where Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Irving were\u003cbr\u003espending the summer, and she often ran over to the old Dix homestead\u003cbr\u003eto chat for awhile with Theodora. They had had their chat out, on this\u003cbr\u003eparticular evening, and Anne was giving herself over to the delight of\u003cbr\u003ebuilding an air-castle. She leaned her shapely head, with its braided\u003cbr\u003ecoronet of dark red hair, against the window-casing, and her gray eyes\u003cbr\u003ewere like the moonlight gleam of shadowy pools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen she saw Ludovic Speed coming down the lane. He was yet far from the\u003cbr\u003ehouse, for the Dix lane was a long one, but Ludovic could be recognized\u003cbr\u003eas far as he could be seen. No one else in Middle Grafton had such a\u003cbr\u003etall, gently-stooping, placidly-moving figure. In every kink and turn of\u003cbr\u003eit there was an individuality all Ludovic's own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne roused herself from her dreams, thinking it would only be tactful\u003cbr\u003eto take her departure. Ludovic was courting Theodora. Everyone in\u003cbr\u003eGrafton knew that, or, if anyone were in ignorance of the fact, it was\u003cbr\u003enot because he had not had time to find out. Ludovic had been coming\u003cbr\u003edown that lane to see Theodora, in the same ruminating, unhastening\u003cbr\u003efashion, for fifteen years!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Anne, who was slim and girlish and romantic, rose to go, Theodora,\u003cbr\u003ewho was plump and middle-aged and practical, said, with a twinkle in her\u003cbr\u003eeye:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There isn't any hurry, child. Sit down and have your call out. You've\u003cbr\u003eseen Ludovic coming down the lane, and, I suppose, you think you'll be a\u003cbr\u003ecrowd. But you won't. Ludovic rather likes a third person around, and\u003cbr\u003eso do I. It spurs up the conversation as it were. When a man has been\u003cbr\u003ecoming to see you straight along, twice a week for fifteen years, you\u003cbr\u003eget rather talked out by spells.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheodora never pretended to bashfulness where Ludovic was concerned.\u003cbr\u003eShe was not at all shy of referring to him and his dilatory courtship.\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, it seemed to amuse her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne sat down again and together they watched Ludovic coming down the\u003cbr\u003elane, gazing calmly about him at the lush clover fields and the blue\u003cbr\u003eloops of the river winding in and out of the misty valley below.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070106779888,"sku":"2940013519480","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013519480_p0.jpg?v=1763582312","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013519480","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}