6 - I Thought Nothing Could Be As Bad As Red Hair

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[00:06] Anne
    As winter drew to an end,
[00:09] Anne
    I was thirteen
[00:11] Anne
    and all wrapped up in
    schoolwork for Miss Stacy.
[00:16] Anne
    Do you know how men propose?
[00:20] Anne
    Have you ever proposed, Matthew?
[00:22] Matthew
    Well now, no.
[00:24] Marilla
    Of course he hasn't.
    Neither of us is married.
[00:29] Marilla
    What's gotten into you now?
[00:30] Anne
    I'm writing a composition for school.
[00:33] Anne
    A grown-up, romantic story.
[00:36] Anne
    I'm finding it hard to imagine the proposal
    because I have no experience to go by.
[00:42] Anne
    Do you think I should ask Mrs. Lynde?
[00:45] Marilla
    What earthly use is it telling stories?
[00:48] Marilla
    You can waste time on stuff and
    nonsense when you're a grown woman.
[00:54] Anne
    Oh, but I won't be a little girl forever.
[00:57] Marilla
    You're still a little girl now.
[01:04] Diana
    We only just turned in a composition.
[01:07] Diana
    The idea of Miss Stacy telling us to
    write a story out of our own heads!
[01:12] Anne
    Why, it's as easy as wink.
[01:14] Diana
    It's easy for you because
    you have an imagination.
[01:19] Diana
    I suppose you have your
    composition all done?
[01:22] Anne
    Almost, but not quite.
[01:25] Anne
    It's a sad, sweet story.
[01:29] Diana
    Oh, I could cry like a
    child just hearing that.
[01:38] Anne
    In two more years,
     we'll be really grown up.
[01:43] (Flashback) Marilla
    You're still a little girl now.
[01:45] Anne
    We'll be so much freer
    to do as we like then.
[01:51] Diana
    In four more years,
     we'll be able to put our hair up.
[01:55] Anne
    Oh, yes!
[01:59] Anne
    The Minstrel of the Woods!
[02:01] Diana
    What?
[02:02] Anne
    That's what I've decided to call him!
[02:06] Anne
    Oh, wait!
[02:08] Anne
    I have it, Diana. Why don't you
    make him the hero of your story?
[02:12] Diana
    You must be joking!
SIGN    Chapter 6
SIGN    I Thought Nothing Could
    Be As Bad As Red Hair
[03:55] Charlie
    That's the spirit, Jimmy!
[03:58] Anne
    What children!
[03:59] Anne
    My story is about Cordelia, a regal
    brunette with duskly-flashing eyes,
[04:06] Anne
    and Geraldine, a queenly blonde
    with velvety-purple eyes.
[04:10] Anne
    two beautiful maidens who
    lived in the same village
[04:13] Anne
    and were devotedly attached to each other.
[04:15] Diana
    Wait!
[04:16] Diana
    Shouldn't Geraldine have
    red hair like you, Anne?
[04:20] Anne
    No, never.
[04:22] Anne
    Red hair wouldn't be proper
    for the heroine of a story.
[04:25] Diana
    Do you think so?
[04:26] Anne
    I know so.
[04:28] Anne
    They simply must have midnight hair
    like you or golden hair like Ruby!
[04:33] Anne
    And then there was Bertram—
[04:35] Jimmy
    Gilbert!
[04:36] Gilbert
    I've got it!
[04:45] Gilbert
    Sorry.
[04:48] Jimmy
    You're hopeless at this.
[04:49] Charlie
    Me next.
[04:50] Jimmy
    Go for it!
[04:51] Anne
    Do you think those boys will ever grow up?
[04:53] Jimmy
    Nicely done.
[04:55] Anne
    And then there was Bertram, a young man
    only lately returned to the village.
[05:01] Anne
    It's called...
[05:02] Anne
    The Jealous Rival; or,
    in Death Not Divided.
[05:08] Anne
    Bertram, young and handsome,
    yet impoverished,
[05:12] Anne
    fell in love with the sixteen-year-old
    Geraldine at first sight.
[05:18] Anne
    Then, one day...
[05:24] Anne
    the horses pulling Geraldine's
    carriage bolted.
[05:27] Geraldine
    Help!
[05:32] Anne
    But just then, Bertram came running,
[05:35] Anne
    and he saved Geraldine by a hair's breadth!
[05:47] Anne
    She fainted in his arms and he
    carried her home three miles.
[05:53] Diana
    Goodness. And then?
    Then what became of them?
[05:56] Anne
    Sweet love!
[05:59] Anne
    And soon enough, Bertram
    proposed to Geraldine.
[06:03] Diana
    Oh, how lovely!
[06:05] Diana
    How did he do it?
[06:07] Anne
    Well...
[06:08] Diana
    How did Bertram propose?
[06:13] Anne
    For all my imagination, Diana,
    there are things that even I cannot write.
[06:18] Diana
    Are there really?
[06:20] Ruby
    You're so good at that!
[06:22] Ruby
    Do you think I could try, too?
[06:24] Jimmy
    S-Sure. Here.
[06:27] Ruby
    Really? Thank you!
[06:29] Diana
    Ruby might be an authority on proposals,
    having so many sisters married.
[06:35] Ruby
    Let me think...
[06:37] Ruby
    My sister Susan's beau Malcolm said,
[06:41] Ruby
    "What do you say, darling pet, if we get
    hitched when my dad gives me the farm?"
[06:45] Ruby
    And Susan said, "Yes—no—
    I don't know—let me see."
[06:51] Ruby
    And there they were, engaged.
[06:54] Anne
    Th-That's all?
[06:56] Diana
    Didn't he go on his knees?
[06:57] Ruby
    Of course not!
[06:59] Ruby
    That's not done nowadays.
[07:03] Anne
    I think I will write the proposal
    from my imagination after all.
[07:08] Diana
    Yes.
[07:08] Lynde
    Proposals?!
[07:15] Lynde
    Don't take offense.
[07:17] Lynde
    I've heard what Miss Stacy's
    having them write.
[07:20] Lynde
    A strange way to teach, I must say.
[07:29] Marilla
    I fear she's wasting time
    better spent on lessons.
[07:34] Matthew
    Anne seems to enjoy it, though.
[07:38] Lynde
    I don't wonder you've no
    end of worries, Marilla.
[07:41] Lynde
    She may be bright and sweet enough,
    but her head is full of nonsense
[07:45] Lynde
    and there's never any knowing what
    shape it'll break out in next.
[07:51] Anne
    It's good to be home!
[07:52] Matthew
    Hello, Anne.
[07:54] Anne
    Good day, Mrs. Lynde!
[07:56] Lynde
    Good day to you!
[07:58] Marilla
    Surely she could come
    home with less racket.
[08:14] Anne
    Bertram went on his knees before
    Geraldine and proposed!
[08:19] Diana
    So he did kneel!
[08:21] Anne
    Then Bertram said,
[08:23] Anne
    "Take these, though they pale
    beside your radiant beauty,"
[08:27] Anne
    and gave her a diamond
    ring and a ruby necklace
[08:30] Anne
    and told her they would go to
    Europe for a wedding tour!
[08:35] Diana
    So Bertram wasn't impoverished!
[08:38] Anne
    No, he was immensely wealthy!
[08:41] Jimmy
    Sorry to keep you.
[08:42] Gilbert
    Oh, hey!
[08:44] Anne
    But Cordelia was simply furious when
    Geraldine told her about the engagement.
[08:49] Anne
    All her affection for Geraldine
    turned to bitter hate.
[08:53] Diana
    What?! But why?!
[08:54] Anne
    Because... Cordelia was secretly
    in love with Bertram herself!
[08:59] Diana
    No!
[09:00] Anne
    But she pretended to be
    Geraldine's friend the same as ever.
[09:04] Anne
    One evening she lured Geraldine out and...
[09:19] Anne
    But Bertram saw it all and he at
    once plunged into the current,
[09:24] Anne
    exclaiming, "I will save thee,
    my peerless Geraldine."
[09:36] Diana
    So they both died, then?
[09:40] Anne
    As for Cordelia, she went
    insane with remorse
[09:45] Anne
    before the graves in which her bosom friend
    and her first love reposed together.
[09:53] Ruby
    I feel so bad for them!
[09:55] Jane
    What a sad story!
[10:00] Jane
    How can I write a lovely story like that?
[10:04] Ruby
    I want to write one, too.
[10:05] Diana
    From this day forth, Anne,
    we are your pupils!
[10:10] Anne
    This was how the story club
    came into existence.
[10:20] Anne
    Diana, the people in your stories
    die as soon as you introduce them.
[10:26] Diana
    I don't know what to do with them next.
[10:30] Anne
    Then perhaps you should
    turn it into a mystery!
[10:35] Anne
    Make the Minstrel of the Woods
    a great detective!
[10:36] Stoat
    I have it!
[10:39] Diana
    That sounds like fun.
[10:41] Diana
    But can I really write it?
[10:42] Anne
    Never fear! I've millions of ideas.
[10:46] Anne
    Your story is too sensible, Jane.
[10:49] Anne
    Why don't you put some lovemaking into it?
[10:52] Jane
    What? But I'd feel so silly
    reading it out loud.
[10:57] Anne
    Then make it so sensible it
    will have a wholesome effect.
[11:01] Anne
    I know! Why don't you put a moral into it?
[11:04] Anne
    Write so all the good people are rewarded
    and all the bad ones are suitably punished.
[11:10] Jane
    There's an idea.
[11:12] Anne
    Now, Ruby, you have far too many proposals.
[11:18] Anne
    Surely three is enough for—
[11:20] Anne
    Hey, are you listening?
[11:25] Anne
    So we decided that in the story club,
[11:28] Anne
    we'll each write a story every week
    and read them to each other.
[11:34] Marilla
    Reading stories is bad enough
    but writing them is worse.
[11:39] Anne
    But we're so careful to put a
    moral into them all, Marilla.
[11:45] Anne
    I'm sure that must have
    a wholesome effect.
[11:47] Marilla
    Well, I'm not so sure!
[11:55] Diana
    And so, the Minstrel of the Woods solved
    the dreadful string of murders.
[12:03] Diana
    "The gluttons who ate too many poison
    mushrooms got their just desserts,"
[12:09] Diana
    he said and departed back into
    the depths of the wood.
[12:24] Stacy
    Thank you, Diana Barry.
[12:27] Stacy
    That was an interesting story.
[12:30] Stacy
    And I see you have a talent for
    leadership, Anne Shirley.
[12:38] Anne
    It kind of puzzles me.
[12:41] Anne
    Diana sent our very best
    to her Aunt Josephine.
[12:46] Anne
    She's a great reader,
    though she has a temper.
[13:11] Anne
    Miss Josephine Barry wrote back
[13:12] Anne
    that she had never read anything
    so amusing in her life.
[13:17] Matthew
    Well now, they must have been funny.
[13:20] Anne
    But they weren't, Matthew!
[13:22] Anne
    The stories were all very pathetic
    and almost everybody died!
[13:26] Anne
    Jane and Ruby almost always cry when—
[13:34] Anne
    Mr. Allan laughed at the same place.
[13:39] Anne
    I meant that to be the most pathetic part.
[14:02] Marilla
    It's a satisfaction to know that
    I'm going home to a snapping wood fire,
[14:05] Marilla
    instead of to the cold comfort of evenings
    before Anne came to Green Gables.
[14:24] Marilla
    Anne!
[14:29] Marilla
    Where is that girl?
[14:34] Marilla
    She's gadding off somewhere with Diana,
[14:40] Marilla
    writing stories or practicing
    dialogues or some such tomfoolery.
[14:43] Marilla
    She's just got to be pulled up short
    and sudden on this sort of thing.
[14:49] Marilla
    Her head is full of nonsense!
[14:51] Marilla
    But there! Here I am saying the very thing
    I was so riled with Rachel Lynde for.
[15:01] Marilla
    With all her faults, I never found her
    disobedient or untrustworthy before
[15:07] Marilla
    and I'm real sorry to find her so now.
[15:11] Matthew
    Well now, I dunno.
[15:18] Marilla
    She'll come hurrying and
    breathless any moment now!
[15:22] Matthew
    Maybe I should go meet
    her down by the road.
[15:26] Marilla
    I'll fetch a light.
[15:42] Marilla
    Anne? Are you there?
[15:56] Marilla
    Anne?
[16:11] Marilla
    Have you been asleep, Anne?
[16:14] Marilla
    What's wrong? Are you sick?
[16:17] Anne
    No.
[16:19] Marilla
    Matthew, Anne is here!
[16:24] Marilla
    Get right up this minute and come to supper—
[16:27] Anne
    No!
[16:28] Anne
    Please, Marilla, go away!
[16:31] Anne
    And don't look at me!
[16:33] Marilla
    Anne Shirley, whatever
    is the matter with you?
[16:35] Anne
    Oh, Marilla!
[16:37] Anne
    I'm in the depths of despair!
[16:40] Anne
    And I don't care who gets head in class
    or writes the best composition any more!
[16:45] Anne
    I don't suppose I'll ever
    be able to go anywhere again.
[16:48] Anne
    My career is closed!
[16:53] Marilla
    Anne Shirley!
[16:57] Marilla
    Anne?
[17:00] Anne
    Marilla...
[17:04] Anne
    Look at my hair.
[17:09] Marilla
    What have you done to your hair?
[17:12] Marilla
    I've been expecting something
    queer for some time.
[17:17] Matthew
    I'll be.
[17:20] Marilla
    Dyed your hair! Didn't you know
    it was a wicked thing to do?
[17:25] Anne
    I meant to be extra good in
    other ways to make up for it.
[17:31] Marilla
    Well, if I'd decided to dye my hair,
     I'd have dyed it a decent color at least.
[17:36] Anne
    But I didn't mean to dye it green.
[17:40] Anne
    He said it would turn my hair
    a beautiful raven black.
[17:46] Marilla
    Anne, who are you talking about?
[17:49] Anne
    The peddler that was here this afternoon.
[17:53] Marilla
    A peddler!
[17:54] Anne
    I think he had a very kind heart.
[17:57] Anne
    He told me he was working hard
    for his wife and children.
[18:00] Anne
    It touched my heart.
[18:03] Anne
    I wanted to buy something from him to
    help him in such a worthy object.
[18:06] Anne
    He had a big box full of
    very interesting things.
[18:09] Anne
    Then all at once, I saw
    the bottle of hair dye.
[18:15] Anne
    I only had fifty cents, and he
    said it cost seventy-five,
[18:21] Anne
    but, seeing it was me,
    he'd sell it for fifty.
[18:45] Anne
    Forgive me.
[18:47] Anne
    Oh, Marilla, when I saw the
    dreadful color it turned my hair,
[18:51] Anne
    I repented of being wicked, I can tell you.
[18:54] Anne
    And I've been repenting ever since.
[18:56] Anne
    Well, I hope you'll
    repent to good purpose.
[19:05] Anne
    How is it?
[19:06] Marilla
    It's no use, Anne.
[19:08] Anne
    The peddler said it wouldn't wash off.
[19:14] Marilla
    Then I guess he spoke the
    truth about one thing.
[19:17] Marilla
    At least take a good look at
    where your vanity has led you.
[19:23] Diana
    Never fear, Anne.
[19:26] Diana
    I haven't told anyone about your hair.
[19:29] Diana
    I'll take the secret to my grave.
[19:34] Anne
    I am Anne the green-haired of Green Gables,
[19:39] Anne
    the unhappiest girl in
    Prince Edward Island.
[19:56] Anne
    I've steeled myself!
[19:58] Anne
    Please cut it off at once,
    Marilla, and have it over.
[20:01] Marilla
    You're really certain?
[20:03] Anne
    I am!
[20:11] Anne
    I'm going to weep all the time you're
    cutting it off, if it won't interfere.
[20:20] Marilla
    It won't.
[20:42] Anne
    I'll never, never look at myself
    again until my hair grows.
[20:47] Anne
    Yes, I will, too!
[20:48] Anne
    I'll see how ugly I am.
[20:52] Anne
    And I won't try to
    imagine it away, either.
[21:06] Anne
    This is me.
[21:09] Anne
    This is me now.
[21:14] Student
    What happened, Anne?
[21:16] Student
    What happened to your hair?
[21:22] Josie
    Don't you know, Diana?
[21:24] Josie
    You are her best friend.
[21:28] Josie
    You look like a scarecrow!
[21:32] Josie
    Duh-dun!
[21:39] Anne
    I never thought I could like
    my red hair, of all things,
[21:43] Anne
    but now I know I did, because it
    was so long and thick and curly
[21:48] Anne
    and it suited me.
[21:58] Stacy
    Now, let's begin our lesson.
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    but Each Mistake Has Helped
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