01x22 - How Horrible It Is That People Have to Grow Up, Marry, and Change!

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Anne: With the final examinationsof our junior year before us,

Anne: we were studying hard.

Philippa: I'm going to take a scholarship in mathematics.

Priscilla: Mathematics will be a hurdle.

Priscilla: Don't you do better at Greek?

Stella: What do you even needa scholarship for? You're rich.

Philippa: I want to prove to Jonas that I'm really enormously clever.

Anne: Jonas will content himself with yourbig, brown eyes and your crooked smile.

Jamesina: Times have changed, I suppose.

Jamesina: Can you cook, Phil?

Philippa: No, I never cooked anything in my lifeexcept a gingerbread and it was a failure.

Philippa: But don't you think I could cookif I began in good earnest to learn?

Jamesina: I hope so.

Anne: It's from our landlady, Miss Patty.

Anne: She says that we can havePatty's Place for another year!

Philippa; Priscilla; Stella: Really?!

Anne: "Maria and I are going to run over Egypt."

Anne: "I want to see the Sphinx once before I die."

Priscilla: "Run over Egypt"!

Priscilla: I wonder if they'll look upat the Sphinx and knit.

Stella: In any case, we can live together another year.

Priscilla: Yes!

Anne: I'm so glad!

Anne: Aren't you, Phil?

Anne: Phil?

Philippa: I'm off for a tr*mp in the park.

Philippa: Anne, how about a break? Come with me.

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How Horrible It IsThat People Have to Grow Up,and Marry, and Change!

Philippa: I'd go home and write a poemthis blessed minute if I only knew how.

Philippa: Anne, I'm the happiest girl in the world.

Anne: So Mr. Blake has asked youto marry him at last, Phil?

Philippa: And I sneezed three timeswhile he was asking me.

Philippa: We're to be married a year from next June.

Anne: Oh, Phil, congratulations.

Philippa: I still can't really believe thatJonas cares for frivolous me.

Anne: You're not really frivolous.

Anne: I know underneath that frivolous exterior,you've got a dear, loyal little soul.

Philippa: Jonas graduates from St. Columba this spring,

Philippa: then he's going to takea mission church in the slums.

Philippa: But I'd go there or toGreenland's icy mountains with him.

Anne: And this is the girl who wouldnever marry a man who wasn't rich.

Philippa: I shall be poor as gailyas I've been rich. You'll see.

Philippa: Anne.

Philippa: All Redmond knows that Roy is crazy about you.

Philippa: And you do love him, don't you?

Anne: I...

Anne: Yes, I suppose I do.

Roy: Dearest Anne,

Roy: Your smile, the light of many thousand stars.

Roy: Your clear voice, raindrops on the river's face.

Roy: Your warmth...

Anne: "...has lit forever my heart's fires."

Anne: My.

Anne: Not exactly up to the levelof Keats or Shakespeare,

Anne: but I think it quite a fine love poemto send an odd duck like me.

Anne: Gilbert could never havewritten it, at any rate.

Anne: Gilbert has found afine girl of his own to love,

Anne: Phil is engaged to Jonas,

Anne: and Diana has Fred.

Anne: Will Roy and I be married someday, too?

Anne: Well, Rusty?

Roy: Anne, as ever, your beauty dazzles me.

Anne: Oh, Roy, you make me blush.

Anne: And you're far handsomer than I am.

Anne: Christine!

Christine: Anne! And Roy, too!

Christine: It's so nice to see you again!

Roy: Oh, we met at the reception the other day.

Roy: You're Gilbert's...?

Anne: Yes, "Gilbert's..."

Anne: I haven't seen him lately. Is he well?

Christine: Yes. Gilbert took off today.

Christine: Oh, I'd love to stay and chat,

Christine: but I'm keeping a professor waiting.

Anne: Please, don't let us keep you.

Christine: I'll give Gilbert your best.

Christine: Good day!

Anne: Let's go.

Roy: Let's.

Anne: My junior year concluded,

Anne: and I returned to Avonlea for Diana's wedding.

Diana: Oh.

Diana: The top two are delicate.Be careful moving them.

Servant: Yes, ma'am.

Diana: I'm sorry, Anne.And after you've come all this way.

Diana: I'm simply frantic getting readyfor the party and moving house.

Anne: It's all right.

Anne: Only...

Anne: I never dreamed the day I'd be yourbridesmaid would come so soon.

Diana: Oh, Anne. I'll only be two miles away.

Diana: And I hear you've finally met your ideal man.

Diana: It's a shame about Gilbert,

Diana: but you know your mind best.

Diana: I'll give you my blessing.

Davy: The new teacher gave meten sums to do for Monday.

Davy: If that's not mean, what is? I want to know.

Lynde: Davy, don't talk like that about your—

Davy: Anne!

Dora: Welcome home, Anne!

Anne: It's good to be home.

Marilla: Have you seen Diana?

Anne: Yes.

Anne: It seems so funny and horribleto think of Diana's being married.

Lynde: I don't see what's horrible about it.

Lynde: Fred Wright has a fine farmand he is a model young man.

Anne: Fred is extremely good.

Lynde: Then what—

Marilla: Would you want Diana tomarry a wicked man instead?

Marilla: Or marry one yourself?

Anne: Oh, no.

Anne: But I think I'd like someone whocould be wicked and wouldn't.

Marilla: You'll have more sense some day, I hope.

Marilla: Davy, come help me.

Davy: Aw, do I have to?

Anne: Is something the matter with Marilla?

Lynde: She's disappointed becauseshe heard you refused Gilbert Blythe.

Anne: Who told her that?

Dora: Everyone in Avonlea knows it, Anne.

Anne: How did word get out?

Anne: Perhaps Charlie Sloanetold his guesses for truth again.

Anne: Don't tell me Diana told Fred,and Fred let it slip!

Anne: Tell me, Matthew,

Anne: why does everyone want tosee me married to Gilbert?

Anne: Why can't we stay the best of friends?

Anne: I only wanted to preserve our friendship.

Lynde: If she isn't marrying for money,

Lynde: and she likes this handsomeRoy better than Gilbert,

Lynde: there's nothing more to be said. Still...

Marilla: Anne wouldn't be so mercenary.

Marilla: I have no fear on that account.

Marilla: Only...

Marilla: I can't help feeling thatsomething has gone awry.

Lynde: Do you worry Anne will repeat your mistakes?

Lynde: Don't.

Lynde: What is to be, will be.

Davy: Anne's in, ain't she?!

Lynde: You scared me half to death!

Lynde: Another letter from Prince Charming?

Davy: No!

Dora: I'll give it to her!

Anne: Diana, a handsome prince at Redmond

Anne: sends me love lettersand flowers two times a week.

Anne: Can you believe it?

Davy: Anne!

Davy: You got this from Gilbert!

Anne: Gilbert?

Dora: What does he say?

Anne: It's... a copy of some college society report.

Davy: What?

Davy: What did Gilbert want to senda dull, old thing like that for?

Dora: Davy.

Dora: Come on.

Davy: Huh? Hey, where are we going?

Anne: Dearest Roy,

Anne: How empty and barrenare my days without you.

Anne: Once my bosom friendDiana is safely married,

Anne: I shall return to Redmond,even if I must swim the channel.

Anne: Yours truly, Anne.

Anne: Diana...

Anne: Oh, how horrible it isthat people have to grow up,

Anne: and marry, and change!

Anne: After all, the only real rosesare the pink ones.

Anne: They are the flowers of love and faith.

Anne: It's all pretty much asI used to imagine it long ago,

Anne: when I wept over your inevitable marriageand our consequent parting.

Anne: You are the bride of my dreams.

Anne: And I am your bridesmaid.

Anne: But I haven't the puffed sleeves,nor do I exactly hate Fred.

Diana: We are not really parting, Anne.

Diana: We've always kept that "oath" of friendshipwe swore long ago, haven't we?

Diana: We'll love each other just as much as ever.

Anne: But things can't be quite the same after this.You'll have other interests.

Anne: I'll be a distant second or third to you.

Diana: The mean thing about your getting married

Diana: is that I won't be able to be your bridesmaid.

Anne: You know the proverb,

Anne: "three times a bridesmaid, never a bride."

Anne: I'm to be Phil's next, and then I must stop.

Anne: Here comes the minister!

Diana: Oh, Anne, what shall I do? I'm...

Diana: I'm so nervous.

Diana: I know I'm going to faint.

Anne: If you do, I'll drag you down to therainwater hogshead and drop you in.

Anne: Getting married can't be so very terriblewhen so many people survive the ceremony.

Diana: Wait till your turn comes, Miss Anne.

Anne: You look just lovely, Diana.

Anne: Kiss me goodbye for the last time.

Anne: Diana Barry will never kiss me again.

Diana: Diana Wright will, though.

Anne: Gilbert?

Gilbert: Anne.

Gilbert: Oh, Fred asked me to be his best man.

Anne: Diana...

Gilbert: I only just arrived.

Anne: Oh. I'm glad you made it in time.

Gilbert: It's tradition.

Davy: Anne!

Charlie: Gilbert!

Gilbert: Hello, Charlie.

Lynde: What a fine-looking pair they are.

Anne: The wedding began.

Anne: Diana did not faint, and nothing untowardoccurred to interrupt the ceremony.

Anne: The merrymaking that followedwas awash in dear, familiar faces.

All: Cheers!

All: To Diana and Fred!

Josie: Gilbert, I hear Anne jilted you again.

Josie: You never learn your lesson.

Anne: W-Wait! Josie?!

Josie: Why, everyone knows it.

Anne: But even so...

Moody: Another toast, then!

Jane: To poor Gilbert!

Anne: Jane?!

All but Anne: To poor Gilbert!

Anne: Really!

All: Cheers!

Moody: Again!

Anne: Oh, no! Moody, are you drunk?!

Moody: Me, drunk? Not a bit of it!

Fred: Diana?

Marilla: Anne, we'll excuse ourselves now.

Anne: I understand, Marilla.

Dora: Till next time, Gilbert!

Gilbert: Yes, till next time.

Davy: Bye-bye!

Gilbert: Congratulations! Be happy!

Fred: Thank you! Thank you!

Diana: Thank you all so much for coming!

Diana: We'll have wonderful memories to look back on!

Moody: Fred! Don't fall off the cart!

Fred: I've got it in hand!

All: Congratulations! Be happy!

Anne: Diana! Diana!

Diana: Thank you all!

Diana: Thank you, Anne!

Anne: Diana...

Gilbert: Fred told me he was so nervoushe couldn't sleep a wink last night.

Anne: His face was so red, I thought he'd gottendrunk before the ceremony even started!

Gilbert: So did I!

Anne: Thank goodness.

Anne: Oh, nothing.

Gilbert: There are the skies of Avonlea.

Anne: Yes.

Gilbert: Anne?

Gilbert: Can we take a ramble to sober up?

Anne: Good idea.

Anne: Marilla and Mrs. Lynde will be shockedif I go home with my face all red.

Anne: I have Roy, and Gilbert has Christine.

Anne: How funny. It's thanks to Christinethat I can be with Gilbert.

Gilbert: Are you going to be in Avonlea all summer?

Anne: No. I'm going to a schooldown east next week.

Anne: They want me to substitute.

Gilbert: And waste your summer break?

Anne: Yes, but in a way I don't mind.

Anne: I don't understand it myself.

Anne: I used to think nowhere on earthcould be as lovely as Avonlea,

Anne: but I'm beginning to feel like a stranger here.

Anne: It makes me sorry, but it's true.

Anne: It's quite appalling to seethe number of children

Anne: who have shot upthese past three years.

Anne: Half of my pupils are grown up.

Anne: It's a wonderful thing,

Anne: but it makes me feel awfully old to see them

Anne: in the places you and Iand our mates used to fill.

Anne: That's what made today such fun.

Anne: It was like we had all gone backto those days together.

Anne: It was so...

Gilbert: "So wags the world away."

Anne: Gilbert?

Gilbert: You'll find somewhere new, Anne.

Gilbert: Somewhere worthy of you.

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