11 - I’d Like to Add Some Beauty to Life

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[00:08] Anne
    Three months have gone by since
    we said farewell to Matthew.
[00:12] Anne
    Mr. Barry is tending to the fields.
[00:16] Anne
    Thanks to everybody's help,
[00:18] Anne
    Marilla and I are living here in
    Green Gables, the same as ever.
[00:24] Anne
    And tomorrow, I start teaching
    at the Avonlea school!
[00:29] Gilbert
    There you are!
[00:32] Gilbert
    I'm glad to see Marilla looking well.
[00:34] Anne
    Her headaches have relented recently.
[00:37] Gilbert
    She must feel easier in her mind.
[00:39] Anne
    We owe it to you, Gilbert.
[00:43] Jane
    That apple tart tasted heavenly!
[00:46] Diana
    You must teach me the recipe
    sometime, Marilla.
[00:49] Marilla
    Of course. Come visit any time you like.
[00:53] Anne
    I'll take you all as far as the road.
[00:59] Marilla
    When did they all get so tall?
[01:06] Jane
    They've become good friends these
    past three months, haven't they?
[01:10] Diana
    They seem so well-matched.
[01:13] Jane
    I wonder what they're saying.
[01:15] Anne
    How I'd like to improve the old
    Avonlea hall and that empty house.
[01:20] Anne
    I want to make Avonlea the
    best village it can be.
[01:23] Gilbert
    I think it's high time we took action.
[01:26] Diana
    How very romantic.
[01:30] Gilbert
    We'll see each other next Friday.
[01:32] Diana
    Gilbert's in White Sands,
    and Jane is in Newbridge.
[01:37] Diana
    It must be hard teaching in a strange town.
[01:41] Anne
    Oh, but they both have
    an advantage over me.
[01:44] Diana
    How so?
[01:45] Anne
    Imagine my struggles teaching in
    a place that knows my history.
[01:51] Diana
    That does sound worse!
[01:54] Jane
    Well, it is work.
[01:56] Jane
    Surely you ought to suffer
    something for your salary?
[02:01] Anne
    That's our Jane.
[02:03] Anne
    But I don't want to be a cross
    teacher if I can help it.
[02:07] Anne
    I hope to foster my pupils' talents
    and be an influence for good.
[02:11] Jane
    How like our Anne!
[02:13] Diana
    What do you think, Gilbert?
[02:14] Diana
    What sort of teacher do you want to be?
[02:16] Gilbert
    Oh, well...
[02:19] Gilbert
    I want to face my pupils with an
    eye to their futures. Only...
[02:25] Anne
    Only?
[02:26] Jane
    Only what?
[02:28] Gilbert
    Nothing.
[02:29] Diana
    Well, you'll all do fine.
[02:33] Diana
    By the way, what happened in that
    business with Mr. Harrison?
[02:37] Anne
    What?!
[02:37] Anne
    Oh...
[02:39] Diana
    Anne sold her neighbor's cow by
    mistake! Can you believe it?
[02:42] Jane; Gilbert
    What?!
[02:47] Anne
    How many times must I get into the worst
    scrape of my life before I'm through?
[02:52] Anne
    Mr. Harrison had just snapped at me
    the other day, so I lost my head.
[02:58] Anne
    I felt certain that your old cow Dolly
[03:01] Anne
    had broken the fence and gotten
    into Mr. Harrison's oats!
[03:06] Anne
    Mr. Shearer came by that very minute,
    so I sold her to him for twenty dollars.
[03:10] Anne
    Then I went home to Green Gables,
     and there was Dolly!
[03:14] Anne
    I had sold the neighbor's cow!
[03:18] Anne
    It gave Marilla headaches and
    caused an awful bother.
[03:26] Anne
    Oh really, Matthew!
    I know you're laughing at me!
SIGN    Chapter 11
SIGN    I'd Like to Add
    Some Beauty to Life
[05:15] Anne
    What now?
[05:16] Anne
    I can't remember a word of the
    speech I stayed up composing!
[05:28] Anne
    My name is Anne Shirley.
[05:29] Anne
    I hope we will all have great
    fun learning together!
[05:38] Anne
    My pupils! Heroes and literary
    giants of the future!
[05:45] (Flashback) Marilla
    Anthony?
[05:47] (Flashback) Lynde
    Mrs. George Pye has taken her
    husband's orphan nephew.
[05:52] (Flashback) Marilla
    And he'll be going to school with Anne?
[05:54] (Flashback) Anne
    That makes him a relation
    of Josie's, I suppose.
[05:58] (Flashback) Lynde
    You may expect trouble, that's what.
[06:02] Anne
    I am being put to the test.
[06:05] Anne
    Isn't the weather lovely, Anthony?
    Perfect for the first day of school.
[06:13] Anne
    You all have such shining morning
    faces, and bright, inquisitive eyes.
[06:22] Paul
    Miss Shirley.
[06:25] Paul
    I'm Paul Irving, ma'am.
[06:27] Anne
    Irving?
[06:29] Anne
    Didn't you came from the
     United States with your father?
[06:33] Anne
    And now you live with your
    grandmother in the village?
[06:36] Paul
    Yes. My dad went back
    to the States to work.
[06:41] Anne
    Did he, now?
[06:42] Paul
    Teacher, about your name...
[06:44] Paul
    You spell "Anne" with
    an e on the end of it!
[06:48] Anne
    Yes, I do! Well spotted!
[06:51] Anne
    Your teacher's name is Anne with an e!
[06:57] Anne
    Now, it is time to begin our lesson!
[07:00] Anne
    Open your readers, please!
[07:03] Anne
    "Here am I, little jumping Joan."
[07:07] Children
    "Here am I, little jumping Joan."
[07:12] Anne
    "When nobody's with me, I'm always alone."
[07:16] Children
    "When nobody's with me—"
[07:40] Anne
    I want all my boys to be gentlemen.
[07:44] Anne
    Do you know what a gentleman is, Anthony?
[07:46] Anne
    Gentlemen don't pour water
    down ladies' necks.
[07:52] Anthony
    I hear they made you stand in
    school all the time, ma'am.
[07:56] Anthony
    And that you hit a boy over
    the head with your slate.
[08:01] Anne
    W-Well, I...
[08:04] Anthony
    May I go now?
[08:06] Anne
    Y-Yes.
[08:16] Anne
    I want to go, too.
[08:23] Paul
    Teacher!
[08:25] Anne
    Paul?
[08:28] Anne
    What's wrong? Did you forget something?
[08:31] Paul
    I found these in Mr. Wright's field.
[08:34] Anne
    My, how pretty.
[08:36] Paul
    For you, ma'am.
[08:38] Anne
    What, me?
[08:42] Paul
    Well, I'll see you tomorrow!
[08:45] Anne
    Paul?
[08:49] Paul
    Goodbye!
[08:51] Anne
    Thank you!
[09:01] Marilla
    Paul's father used to live in Avonlea.
[09:07] Marilla
    According to Rachel...
[09:09] (Flashback) Lynde
    That Paul is Stephen Irving's boy.
[09:13] (Flashback) Lynde
    You remember. Him that jilted
    Lavendar Lewis over at Grafton?
[09:20] (Flashback) Marilla
    I don't think he jilted her.
    There was a quarrel.
[09:23] (Flashback) Marilla
    I suppose there was blame on both sides.
[09:26] (Flashback) Lynde
    Well, anyway, she never married.
[09:30] (Flashback) Lynde
    A common enough story, I guess.
[09:34] Marilla
    Stephen went off to the States,
    married, and had Paul.
[09:41] Anne
    So that's it.
[09:43] Marilla
    Now, how did you get along?
[09:47] Anne
    Ask me that a month later and
    I may be able to tell you.
[09:52] Anne
    My thoughts feel as if they
    had been all stirred up.
[09:55] Marilla
    I see Miss Shirley had a tiring day.
[09:58] Anne
    The only thing I accomplished is that
    I taught unlettered children that A is A.
[10:04] Anne
    Isn't it something to have
    started souls along a path
[10:10] Anne
    that may end in Shakespeare
    and Paradise Lost?
[10:16] Marilla
    I made too much again.
[10:19] Marilla
    Matthew always was fond of stew.
[10:22] Anne
    No matter, Marilla.
    I'm feeling ravenous today.
[10:27] Anne
    I could wolf down the lot!
[10:30] Marilla
    If you can muster an appetite like
    that, I guess I needn't worry.
[10:48] Anne
    Oh, do smell that.
[10:49] Anne
    Bliss is it on such a day to be alive!
[10:51] Diana
    Don't drive so fast, Anne!
[10:54] Anne
    This summer, we young people
    who hope to better Avonlea
[10:59] Anne
    formed the Village Improvement Society.
[11:03] Anne
    Gilbert was elected president,
[11:05] Anne
    Diana was treasurer, and I was secretary.
[11:08] Anne
    We had just convened our second meeting.
[11:12] Gilbert
    I'd like to discuss the costs
    of improving the Avonlea hall.
[11:16] Charlie
    We should start a subscription.
[11:18] Ruby
    Seconded!
[11:19] Josie
    Do you know what people are
    calling this society?
[11:24] Moody
    The Courting Club.
[11:25] Fred; Jane
    What?!
[11:27] Anne
    Marilla told me that "people
    don't like being improved."
[11:32] Anne
    I explained that we are going to improve
    the village, not the people in it.
[11:37] Fred
    Someone asked me if we could induce old
    Josiah Sloane to keep his whiskers trimmed.
[11:44] Diana
    I've been asked if we mean to
    plow up all the roadsides
[11:48] Diana
    and set them out with geraniums.
[11:52] Jane
    Try, "I will not hang lace curtains
    in the cow stall windows."
[11:56] Charlie
    Everybody has us all wrong.
[11:59] Ruby
    Mr. Boulter has been warning
    people against "Improvers."
[12:07] Anne
    We'll have to canvass from house to house,
    to clear our names as much as anything.
[12:13] Gilbert
    I guess we will.
[12:20] Diana
    Why on earth did you offer to
    canvass the Newbridge road, Anne?
[12:24] Diana
    I've been dreading it all morning.
[12:27] Diana
    Almost all the cranks in
    Avonlea live along it.
[12:31] Anne
    I feel myself responsible for the A.V.I.S.,
    since I was the first to suggest it,
[12:35] Anne
    and it seems to me that I ought to
    do the most disagreeable things.
[12:39] Anne
    I'm sorry on your account; but you
    needn't say a word at the cranky places.
[12:45] Anne
    I'll do all the talking.
[12:46] Diana
    I just know they'll treat us
    like swindlers or peddlers.
[12:58] Diana
    If Catherine is alone we may get something.
[13:03] Anne
    And if her sister Eliza is in?
[13:05] Diana
    We won't.
[13:07] Anne; Diana
    Good day!
[13:10] Catherine
    Oh, you must be from the
    Improvement Society.
[13:13] Eliza
    Who is it, Catherine?
[13:14] Catherine
    It's the Improvement Society.
[13:20] Eliza
    If I had money to waste, I'd burn it up and
    have the fun of seeing a blaze maybe.
[13:25] Eliza
    The hall is just a place for
    young folks to meet and carry on.
[13:31] Catherine
    Oh, Eliza, young folks must
    have some amusement.
[13:35] Eliza
    We didn't when we were young.
[13:38] Eliza
    This world is getting worse every day.
[13:41] Catherine
    Well, I always like to
    look on the bright side.
[13:46] Eliza
    There isn't any bright side.
[13:48] Anne
    Oh, indeed there is!
[13:50] Anne
    Why, there are ever so many
    bright sides, Miss Andrews.
[13:53] Diana
    Anne.
[13:54] Anne
    It's really a beautiful world.
[13:57] Eliza
    You won't have such a high opinion of it
    when you've lived as long in it as I have.
[14:02] Eliza
    How is your mother, Diana?
[14:06] Eliza
    She looks terrible run down of late.
[14:09] Diana
    Oh, I don't...
[14:12] Eliza
    And how long is it before Marilla
    expects to be stone blind, Anne?
[14:17] Catherine
    Eliza!
[14:19] Anne
    The doctor thinks her eyes will not get
    any worse if she is very careful.
[14:22] Eliza
    Doctors always talk like that
[14:24] Eliza
    just to keep people cheered up.
[14:27] Eliza
    I wouldn't have much hope if I was her.
[14:31] Anne
    No!
[14:33] Eliza
    I don't have much hope for
    your society, either.
[14:42] Diana
    I want to go home.
[14:45] Catherine
    Wait!
[14:48] Anne
    Catherine?!
[14:53] Catherine
    I'm so sorry. Take this for the hall.
[14:58] Catherine
    I can't give more now, but I'm
    real interested in your society.
[15:03] Anne
    Oh, Catherine!
[15:04] Diana
    Thank you!
[15:06] Catherine
    And don't be cast down
    over what Eliza said.
[15:10] Catherine
    The world is getting better...
    it certainly is.
[15:15] Anne; Diana
    Yes!
[15:19] Diana
    If his wife is home, we won't get a cent.
[15:24] Diana
    Dan Blair doesn't dare have his
    hair cut without asking her permission.
[15:29] Anne
    Everyone says so.
[15:31] Blair
    What's with this blasted thing?!
[15:33] Blair
    You'll have to excuse me, ladies.
[15:36] Blair
    I can't get the durned thing untied.
[15:39] Diana
    P-Pardon the intrusion.
[15:42] Anne
    We've come from the Improvement Society.
[15:44] Blair
    My wife's gone to the train to
    meet her sister from Montreal
[15:49] Blair
    and left orders for me
    to make a cake for tea.
[15:54] Blair
    But I've clean forgot half
    the directions already.
[15:57] Blair
    And it says "season with
    vanilla according to taste,"
[16:00] Blair
    but what if my taste doesn't
    happen to be other people's taste?
[16:15] Blair
    Oh, it's perfect!
[16:19] Anne
    I was afraid I was going
    to laugh myself to death!
[16:22] Diana
    Did you see his apron fluttering
    behind him like a tail?!
[16:26] Anne
    He must not have wanted
    to disappoint his wife.
[16:29] Anne
    He was desperate.
[16:31] Diana
    And he gave four dollars!
[16:33] Anne
    The Whites' place is next.
[16:36] Diana
    I've never met them,
    but I hear she likes things neat.
[16:48] White
    Will you please wipe your feet carefully on
    the grass and then walk on these papers?
[16:55] Anne
    Pardon us.
[17:00] White
    No! Don't come in!
[17:02] White
    Out! Out you... you fly!
[17:06] Anne
    Don't you dare laugh, Diana.
[17:09] Diana
    Don't you look at my face.
[17:15] Diana
    The next place is the last.
[17:17] Anne
    Yes.
[17:18] Anne
    Oh?
[17:19] Diana
    There's Mr. and Mrs. Dickson
    with old Mrs. White.
[17:25] Anne; Diana
    Good day!
[17:26] Grandma White
    Oh, good day to you girls.
[17:28] Dickson
    Have you heard the news?
[17:30] Dickson
    Mrs. White's son has just had the
    baby boy he's been hoping for.
[17:35] Diana
    Goodness!
[17:36] Anne
    Congratulations, Mrs. White!
[17:38] Grandma White
    Lorenzo's known for being mean,
[17:41] Grandma White
    but he's the most generous
    man in Avonlea this minute.
[17:50] Diana
    What?! We're going straight
    to Lorenzo White's?
[17:53] Anne
    Gilbert and Fred won't canvass
    him until next week,
[17:55] Anne
    and he won't be so generous by then!
[17:58] Lorenzo
    Certain, certain!
[18:00] Lorenzo
    Just put me down for a dollar more than
    the highest subscription you've got!
[18:06] Diana
    You mean it?!
[18:08] Anne
    Mr. Daniel Blair put down four dollars.
[18:13] Lorenzo
    Then put me down for five.
[18:16] Lorenzo
    Now, I want you to come into the house.
[18:17] Lorenzo
    There's something in there worth seeing!
[18:26] Diana
    What will we say if the
    baby isn't pretty?
[18:30] Anne
    Oh, there will certainly be something
    else nice to say about it.
[18:36] Diana
    It is pretty!
[18:39] Anne
    Like a little angel!
[18:45] Anne
    We'll slip over to Mr. Harrison's last.
     It's on our way home.
[18:50] Diana
    What?! But Jane and Josie
    took the Carmody road!
[18:54] Anne
    They're too afraid to go near him.
    And he's really such a nice person.
[18:58] Diana
    They're only afraid because they've
    heard you sold his cow by mistake.
[19:03] Anne
    Isn't that all the more reason
    why I should be the one to go?
[19:08] Anne
    I brought him a cake with my apology,
[19:11] Anne
    and he gladly forgave me in
    exchange for our Jersey cow.
[19:16] Anne
    So you see, Mr. Harrison
    and I get on famously!
[19:19] Harrison
    No.
[19:21] Anne
    You mean you won't subscribe?
[19:24] Harrison
    Not a cent.
[19:25] Anne
    But why?
[19:27] Diana
    Someone led me to expect otherwise.
[19:30] Anne
    But I thought you approved of
    our society, Mr. Harrison.
[19:35] Harrison
    So I do, but my approval doesn't
    go as deep as my pocket.
[19:38] Ginger
    Redheaded snippet! Redheaded snippet!
[19:41] Harrison
    S-Stop that, you!
[19:42] Diana
    My!
[19:43] Anne
    Et tu, Ginger?!
[19:52] Anne
    A few more experiences
    such as I have had today
[19:55] Anne
    would make me as much of a
     pessimist as Miss Eliza Andrews.
[20:00] Anne
    It's no laughing matter!
[20:02] Diana
    But have you ever known a day where
    so many things went against you?
[20:09] Anne
    True enough. And we muddled
    through somehow.
[20:14] Diana
    Yes. It was a good day.
[20:16] Anne
    You think so?
[20:18] Diana
    I feel as though my world has
    grown a little broader!
[20:23] Anne
    So do I!
[20:29] Diana
    Here is the total of the subscriptions.
[20:31] Jane
    I don't believe it.
[20:32] Fred
    We can get to work on the hall
    before the year is out.
[20:40] Gilbert
    Teaching isn't easy, is it?
[20:43] Anne
    No. I've wondered if I can face up to
    forty more years of unruly pupils.
[20:51] Gilbert
    I've heard all the children like you.
[20:54] Anne
    I'm glad, but several of
    them might not respect me.
[20:59] Anne
    Although some encourage me, too.
[21:04] Gilbert
    My father has gotten well
    and come to live with us,
[21:09] Gilbert
    but illness and circumstance keep more than
    a few of my pupils from their parents.
[21:14] Anne
    Oh.
[21:16] Gilbert
    I want to be a doctor.
[21:21] Gilbert
    I want to fight disease
    and pain and ignorance.
[21:27] Gilbert
    The folks who lived before me have done so
    much for me that I want to show my gratitude
[21:32] Gilbert
    by doing something for
    the folks who will live after me.
[21:40] Anne
    I see.
[21:43] Anne
    I'd like to add some beauty to life.
[21:49] Anne
    I'd love to make people have a
    pleasanter time because of me!
[21:55] Gilbert
    I think you're fulfilling
    that ambition every day.
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