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The Golden Road
Beverley recalls his childhood adventures with his brother, cousins, and friends as they played in their family orchard, created their own magazine, and navigated the joys of youth.
"The Golden Road" by L. M. Montgomery is a novel. Beverley recalls his childhood adventures with his brother, cousins, and friends as they played in their family orchard, created their own magazine, and navigated the joys of youth.
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“I’ve thought of something amusing for the winter,” I said as we drew into a half-circle around the glorious wood-fire in Uncle Alec’s kitchen.
It had been a day of wild November wind, closing down into a wet, eerie twilight. Outside, the wind was shrilling at the windows and around the eaves, and the rain was playing on the roof. The old willow at the gate was writhing in the storm and the orchard was a place of weird music, born of all the tears and fears that haunt the halls of night. But little we cared for the gloom and the loneliness of the outside world; we kept them at bay with the light of the fire and the laughter of our young lips.
We had been having a splendid game of Blind-Man’s Buff. That is, it had been splendid at first; but later the fun went out of it because we found that Peter was, of malice prepense, allowing himself to be caught too easily, in order that he might have the pleasure of catching Felicity—which he never failed to do, no matter how tightly his eyes were bound. What remarkable goose said that love is blind? Love can see through five folds of closely-woven muffler with ease!
“I’m getting tired,” said Cecily, whose breath was coming rather quickly and whose pale cheeks had bloomed into scarlet. “Let’s sit down and get the Story Girl to tell us a story.”
Contents
- 01Foreword
- 02Chapter I. A New Departure
- 03Chapter II. A Will, a Way and a Woman
- 04Chapter III. The Christmas Harp
- 05Chapter IV. New Year Resolutions
- 06Chapter V. The First Number of “Our Magazine”
- 07Chapter VI. Great-Aunt Eliza’s Visit
- 08Chapter VII. We Visit Cousin Mattie’s
- 09Chapter VIII. We Visit Peg Bowen
- 10Chapter IX. Extracts from the February and March Numbers of “Our Magazine”
- 11Chapter X. Disappearance of Paddy
- 12Chapter XI. The Witch’s Wishbone
- 13Chapter XII. Flowers O’ May
- 14Chapter XIII. A Surprising Announcement
- 15Chapter XIV. A Prodigal Returns
- 16Chapter XV. The Rape of the Lock
- 17Chapter XVI. Aunt Una’s Story
- 18Chapter XVII. Aunt Olivia’s Wedding
- 19Chapter XVIII. Sara Ray Helps Out
- 20Chapter XIX. By Way of the Stars
- 21Chapter XX. Extracts from “Our Magazine”
- 22Chapter XXI. Peg Bowen Comes to Church
- 23Chapter XXII. The Yankee Storm
- 24Chapter XXIII. A Missionary Heroine
- 25Chapter XXIV. A Tantalizing Revelation
- 26Chapter XXV. The Love Story of the Awkward Man
- 27(Written by the Story Girl)
- 28Chapter XXVI. Uncle Blair Comes Home
- 29Chapter XXVII. The Old Order Changeth
- 30Chapter XXVIII. The Path to Arcady
- 31Chapter XXIX. We Lose a Friend
- 32Chapter XXX. Prophecies
- 33Chapter XXXI. The Last Number of Our Magazine
- 34Chapter XXXII. Our Last Evening Together
- 35Chapter XXXIII. The Story Girl Goes
About this edition
- Author
- L. M. Montgomery
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 236 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers