7 - I’ve Been Making Mistakes, but Each Mistake Has Helped to Cure Me of My Shortcomings

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[00:02] Diana
    Anne and I have been
    playing here all summer.
[00:06] Ruby
    What a lovely place.
[00:08] Jane
    Oh, look!
[00:10] Jane
    A landing place, and a boat, too.
[00:13] Diana
    That's my dad's flat-bottomed dory.
[00:16] Diana
    Would you like to tow out in it?
[00:18] Diana
    Or maybe go fishing?
[00:19] Jane
    Either sounds nice.
[00:24] Anne
    I know. Why don't we dramatize Elaine?
[00:27] Diana
    From the legends of King Arthur?
[00:30] Anne
    Yes. The Lady Elaine loved Sir Lancelot,
[00:34] Anne
    but her passion failed to move him.
[00:37] Diana
    Because Lancelot loved Guinevere,
     the wife of his liege lord, Arthur.
[00:43] Jane
    Elaine dies of grief.
[00:46] Ruby
    So her family floats her body down the river
    in a barge, like she wrote in her will.
[00:51] Anne
    And her beloved Lancelot
    finds it downstream.
[00:55] Diana
    Anne, what a wonderful idea!
[00:57] Diana
    If we let the flat drift
    from here to the headland,
[01:00] Diana
    we can play Elaine's
    tragic love perfectly.
[01:05] Anne
    Then who will be Elaine?
[01:09] Diana
    I could never have the courage
    to float down there.
[01:13] Jane
    I don't mind floating down when there's
    two or three of us in the flat.
[01:16] Ruby
    But to lie down and pretend
    I was dead—I just couldn't.
[01:19] Anne
    But then who will be Elaine?
[01:22] Jane
    I think you should, Anne.
[01:24] Ruby
    Yes, you, Anne.
[01:26] Anne
    But it's so ridiculous to
    have a redheaded Elaine.
[01:29] Ruby
    Your hair is ever so much darker than
    it used to be before you cut it.
[01:34] Diana
    Yes, and I think it is real pretty.
[01:37] Anne
    Do you really think so?
SIGN    Chapter 7
SIGN    I've Been Making Mistakes,
    but Each Mistake Has Helped
    to Cure Me of My Shortcomings
[03:18] Anne
    Jane, you will be Elaine's father.
[03:22] Jane
    All right.
[03:23] Anne
    Diana and Ruby will be the brothers.
[03:25] Diana; Ruby
    Yes.
[03:26] Anne
    What will serve for a white lily?
[03:29] Diana
    How about this?
[03:32] Anne
    An iris? That will do nicely.
[03:35] Jane
    Why, you'd think she was really dead.
[03:38] Jane
    It makes me feel frightened, girls.
[03:40] Jane
    Do you suppose it's really
    right to act like this?
[03:42] Anne
    It's perfectly all right.
[03:44] Anne
    Now, I won't say any more.
[03:46] Anne
    It's silly for Elaine to be
    talking when she's dead.
[03:53] Diana
    Sister, farewell forever.
[03:58] Ruby
    Farewell, sweet sister.
[04:02] Jane
    Oh daughter of mine, farewell.
[04:18] Diana
    Now, let us all go and wait for
    Elaine at the lower headland.
[04:23] Diana
    As Lancelot and the King
    and his wife, Guinevere.
[04:33] Anne
    Nothing could be more romantic.
[04:37] Anne
    I wonder how a person must feel,
    dying on such a peaceful day.
[04:49] Anne
    This is no time for being dead!
[04:51] Anne
    How should a person feel when the
    barge she's boarded is sinking?!
[04:56] Anne
    C-Can anybody hear me?!
[04:59] Anne
    Anybody?!
[05:01] Anne
    Be calm, Anne.
[05:03] Anne
    You mustn't lose your self-possession
    at a time like this.
[05:08] Anne
    Dear God, if you haven't forsaken me,
[05:11] Anne
    please take the flat close to a pile
[05:16] Anne
    and I'll do the rest.
[05:26] Jane
    Look, there's Elaine!
[05:28] Ruby
    She's coming straight toward us!
[05:30] Diana
    Boats from that landing place
    always drift to this headland.
[05:38] Jane
    Oh, no! Anne's sunk!
[05:40] Ruby
    We must get help!
[05:42] Anne
    Here I am!
[05:44] Anne
    I'm right here!
[05:48] Anne
    M-My arms...
[05:50] Anne
    won't last much longer.
[05:53] Anne
    Oh, Mrs. Hammond, why didn't
    you teach me to swim?!
[06:07] Gilbert
    Anne Shirley!
    How on earth did you get there?
[06:13] Gilbert
    Be careful. Easy does it.
[06:16] Gilbert
    Let go.
[06:24] Gilbert
    What has happened, Anne?
[06:27] Anne
    We were playing Elaine.
[06:31] Anne
    I had to drift down to Camelot.
[06:33] Anne
    The flat began to leak and...
[06:41] Anne
    Will you be kind enough to...
[07:14] Anne
    I'm very much obliged to you.
[07:18] Gilbert
    Anne, look here.
[07:20] Gilbert
    Can't we be good friends?
[07:24] Gilbert
    I'm awfully sorry I made
    fun of your hair that time.
[07:30] Gilbert
    Honest I am.
[07:34] Gilbert
    Let's be friends.
[07:36] Gilbert
    Let's be friends.
[07:45] (Flashback) Gilbert
    Carrots.
[07:47] (Flashback) Gilbert
    Carrots.
[07:50] Anne
    No, I shall never be friends with you,
[07:55] Anne
    and I don't want to be!
[08:04] Gilbert
    All right!
[08:08] Gilbert
    I'll never ask you to be
    friends again, Anne Shirley.
[08:22] Anne
    Why did I answer him like that?
[08:26] Anne
    Wait. Do I... regret it?
[08:30] Diana
    Oh, Anne!
[08:34] Diana
    What a relief!
[08:36] Diana
    You mean Gilbert rescued you?
[08:38] Diana
    How splendid of him!
[08:41] Jane
    Why, it's so romantic!
[08:43] Jane
    Of course you'll speak to him after this.
[08:46] Anne
    Of course I won't.
[08:47] Anne
    And I don't want ever to hear
    the word romantic again.
[08:50] Diana; Jane
    What?
[08:50] Anne
    I'm awfully sorry you were
    so frightened, girls.
[08:52] Anne
    We've gone and lost your
    father's flat, Diana.
[08:56] Anne
    Everything I do gets me or my
    dearest friends into a scrape.
[09:02] Marilla
    You impossible child!
[09:04] Marilla
    I went and apologized to Mr. Barry,
[09:08] Marilla
    though he forgave you because he felt bad
    for neglecting the hole in that dory.
[09:13] Marilla
    And then there were the Blythes.
[09:18] Marilla
    Will you ever have any sense, Anne?
[09:22] Marilla
    You came within an inch of
    losing your fool life.
[09:27] Anne
    Oh, yes, I think I will, Marilla.
[09:29] Anne
    I think my prospects of becoming
    sensible are brighter now than ever.
[09:32] Marilla
    I don't see how.
[09:34] Anne
    Ever since I came to Green Gables,
    I've been making mistakes,
[09:38] Anne
    but each mistake has helped
    to cure me of my shortcomings.
[09:44] Marilla
    And what did nearly drowning
    in the pond cure you of?
[09:48] Anne
    Today's mistake is going to
    cure me of being too romantic.
[09:52] Anne
    Romance is not appreciated now.
[09:56] Anne
    I feel quite sure that you will soon see a
    great improvement in me in this respect.
[10:02] Marilla
    I'm sure I hope so.
[10:09] Matthew
    Anne.
[10:12] Matthew
    Well now, don't give up
    all your romance, Anne.
[10:20] Matthew
    Not too much, of course.
[10:24] Matthew
    A little of it is a good thing.
[10:39] Anne
    I'm home!
[10:41] Marilla
    So you are.
[10:42] Marilla
    And late, too.
[10:44] Anne
    Diana and I were only over
    in the Haunted Wood.
[10:47] Marilla
    Miss Stacy was here this afternoon.
[10:51] Anne
    Oh!
[10:53] Anne
    She caught me reading Ben-Hur in
    school yesterday afternoon.
[11:00] Marilla
    She never mentioned such a thing to me.
[11:02] Marilla
    Miss Stacy wants to organize a
    class among her advanced students
[11:06] Marilla
    who mean to study for the entrance
    examination into Queen's.
[11:10] Marilla
    And she came to ask Matthew and me if
    we would like to have you join it.
[11:16] Anne
    Truly?
[11:18] Anne
    But won't it be...
[11:19] Marilla
    I guess you needn't worry
    about the expense.
[11:22] Marilla
    You can join the Queen's
    class if you like, Anne.
[11:26] Anne
    Oh, Marilla!
[11:29] Anne
    Of course I'd love to!
[11:31] Anne
    I'm extremely grateful
    to you and Matthew.
[11:34] Anne
    And I'll study as hard as I can and
    do my very best to be a credit to you.
[11:39] Marilla
    I dare say you will.
[11:45] Stacy
    Well then, let's stop here for today.
[11:48] Stacy
    Queen's class, stay behind.
[11:51] Stacy
    Everybody else, please take
    care getting home.
[11:54] Students
    Yes, Miss Stacy.
[11:58] Diana
    Well, I'll be going now.
[12:00] Anne
    All right.
[12:01] Anne
    Till tomorrow.
[12:02] Anne
    I'll see you tomorrow...
[12:05] Diana
    Study hard.
[12:08] Anne
    We've never been separated in anything.
[12:10] Diana
    Goodbye.
[12:15] Anne
    Now Diana will have to walk home alone
    through Lover's Lane and Violet Vale.
[12:24] Stacy
    We should all have a purpose in life
[12:28] Stacy
    and pursue it faithfully.
[12:32] Stacy
    But we must first make sure
    that it is a worthy purpose.
[12:36] Marilla
    You'll just have to live with it.
[12:39] Marilla
    Diana's parents don't intend
    to send her to Queen's.
[12:45] Anne
    It is a lesson that we can't have things
    perfect in this imperfect world.
[12:51] Marilla
    Now, what do you think of
    the Queen's class?
[12:55] Anne
    I think the Queen's class is going
    to be extremely interesting.
[12:58] Anne
    The competition makes
    studying feel worthwhile.
[13:01] Marilla
    I'm glad to hear it.
[13:03] Anne
    We discussed our life's
    ambitions on the walk home.
[13:07] Marilla
    Did you? That's an awfully
    long time to be thinking of.
[13:10] Anne
    Miss Stacy told us it is
    important to have one.
[13:16] Anne
    We all thought it over.
[13:18] Anne
    Ruby says...
[13:19] (Flashback) Ruby
    My ambition is marriage.
[13:22] (Flashback) Ruby
    I'll teach for two years after I get through,
    and then I intend to be married.
[13:29] Anne
    And Jane says...
[13:30] (Flashback) Jane
    I'll devote my whole life to teaching.
[13:34] (Flashback) Jane
    And I'll never, never marry.
[13:36] (Flashback) Ruby
    Why not?
[13:37] (Flashback) Jane
    Because you are paid a salary for teaching,
    but a husband won't pay you anything.
[13:43] (Flashback) Jane
    Just look at my father.
[13:45] (Flashback) Jane
    He's meaner than second skimmings.
[13:49] Anne
    Josie says...
[13:51] (Flashback) Josie
    I won't have to earn my own living.
[13:54] (Flashback) Josie
    I'm just going to college
    for education's sake.
[13:56] (Flashback) Anne
    Your family does have plenty of money.
[13:59] (Flashback) Josie
    Yes, unlike orphans who are
    living on charity.
[14:05] (Flashback) Josie
    It must be hard, having to hustle to
    make your own way in the world.
[14:11] Marilla
    Take no notice of that rude girl!
[14:15] Anne
    I don't intend to.
[14:16] Anne
    Moody Spurgeon is going to be a minister.
[14:21] Anne
    Charlie Sloane says he's
    going to go into politics.
[14:24] Marilla
    He'll have a hard time of it.
    The Sloanes are all honest people.
[14:29] Anne
    That's true enough.
[14:31] Marilla
    Tell me,
[14:32] Marilla
    what is Gilbert Blythe going to be?
[14:36] (Flashback) Gilbert
    All right!
[14:39] (Flashback) Gilbert
    I'll never ask you to be
    friends again, Anne Shirley.
[14:46] Anne
    I don't happen to know what Gilbert Blythe's
    ambition in life is—if he has any.
[14:52] Marilla
    In that case, Anne, what about yours?
[14:58] Anne
    M-Mine?
[15:00] Anne
    Well, I suppose...
[15:03] Anne
    My purpose in life is to...
[15:07] Anne
    What an awful dilemma.
[15:09] Anne
    I need to find a purpose worth devoting
    my life to right this minute.
[15:16] Anne
    I wonder if Diana was
    all right on her own.
[15:20] Diana
    I'll be fine.
[15:22] Diana
    Carrie and Julia say they'll
    walk home with me today.
[15:25] Diana
    So concentrate on your studies, Anne.
[15:29] Anne
    Th-Thank you.
[15:31] Diana
    Your purpose in life?
[15:34] Anne
    Yes.
[15:35] Anne
    So, what would you think of living
    together when we grow up?
[15:40] Anne
    We'll both earn our livings and be together
    even when we're nice old maids!
[15:45] Diana
    That does sound like fun.
[15:46] Anne
    Doesn't it just?
[15:47] Diana
    But wait. A purpose in life should
    have a worthier object.
[15:53] Diana
    Say, marrying some wild,
    dashing, wicked young man
[15:57] Diana
    and reforming him with my love.
[16:00] Diana
    Doesn't that sound more noble?
[16:13] Stacy
    Why, Anne. What brings you here?
[16:15] Anne
    Miss Stacy...
[16:17] Stacy
    Yes?
[16:18] Anne
    How should I go about finding
    my purpose in life?
[16:23] Anne
    Everybody else knows just
    what they want to be,
[16:28] Anne
    but I haven't made up my mind yet.
[16:34] Stacy
    I don't think you need to rush.
[16:37] Stacy
    You've been doing good work,
[16:40] Stacy
    so you should take your time looking.
[16:43] Anne
    But what if I never find it?
[16:46] Stacy
    I can see what I said has
    been bothering you.
[16:50] Stacy
    Think of it this way, then.
[16:53] Stacy
    Passing the entrance into Queen's
    is your purpose for the time being,
[16:57] Stacy
    and you'll think of what comes
    next once you've done that.
[17:01] Stacy
    A good ambition needn't be a grand one.
[17:05] Stacy
    Try to make the most of
    each day as it comes.
[17:09] Anne
    "Make the most of each day."
[17:14] Anne
    All right! I'll try my best.
[17:17] Stacy
    Don't work yourself to any extreme, now.
[17:19] Anne
    Thank you very much.
[17:20] Anne
    If you'll excuse me.
[17:23] Stacy
    Take care.
[17:28] Anne
    Miss Stacy! I l-l-love you!
[17:32] Stacy
    My!
[17:35] Anne
    The days slipped by,
[17:40] Anne
    spring came again,
[17:42] Anne
    and I turned fourteen.
[17:45] Stacy
    Two of you earned full marks
    on yesterday's test.
[17:49] Stacy
    Anne and Gilbert.
[17:54] Anne
    Day by day, I made the most
    of what lay before me,
[17:59] Anne
    and each day shone like a golden
    bead on the necklace of the year.
[18:07] Anne
    When summer came,
    and studies stalled a wee bit,
[18:13] Anne
    rumors ran at large through the school.
[18:17] Harry
    Hey, have you heard?
[18:18] Sam
    Oh, I heard all right.
[18:20] Alice
    She got offered a position
    in her home district.
[18:23] Julia
    Did she really?
[18:25] Anne
    Good morning.
[18:26] Diana
    Good morning.
[18:27] Jane
    Have you heard?
[18:28] Anne
    Heard what?
[18:29] Jane
    Miss Stacy is going to leave the
    Avonlea School this summer.
[18:36] Diana
    It's only a rumor. We can't be sure yet.
[18:40] Anne
    Yes, but still...
[18:42] Diana
    Why not ask Miss Stacy herself?
[18:47] Anne
    I can't. I don't dare.
[18:50] Diana
    Neither do I.
[18:51] Stacy
    The term ends today.
[18:55] Stacy
    But you've done good work this past year,
[18:58] Stacy
    and you deserve a good, jolly vacation.
[19:04] Stacy
    Have the best time you can
    in the out-of-door world
[19:06] Stacy
    and lay in a good stock of health
    and vitality and ambition.
[19:10] Stacy
    It will be the tug of war, you know—
    the last year before the Entrance.
[19:17] Stacy
    Is something the matter?
[19:20] Josie
    I have a question.
[19:22] Stacy
    Yes? What is it?
[19:23] Josie
    Are you going to be back
    next year, Miss Stacy?
[19:28] Josie
    I've heard you've been offered a position
    in another school and mean to accept.
[19:34] Anne
    Please don't leave, Miss Stacy!
[19:38] Gilbert
    I want to learn so much more from you!
[19:42] Moody
    So do I!
[19:43] Jane
    Don't go away!
[19:44] Ruby
    Stay on, Miss Stacy!
[19:46] Students
    Please! Don't go!
[19:51] Stacy
    All of you...
[19:55] Stacy
    Yes, I was offered another school.
[20:04] Stacy
    But I have decided
    to come back to Avonlea.
[20:11] Stacy
    I thought of taking a school
    in my home district,
[20:15] Stacy
    but to tell the truth,
[20:16] Stacy
    I've grown so interested in my pupils here
    that I found I couldn't leave them.
[20:21] Stacy
    So I'll stay and see you through.
[20:26] Charlie; Moody
    Hurrah! Hurrah!
[20:30] Charlie; Jane; Moody
    Hurrah! Hurrah!
[20:34] Stacy
    All of you...
[20:37] Stacy
    Thank you.
[20:43] Anne
    Listen, Jane. I've found
    my purpose in life.
[20:50] Anne
    I've had a vague idea of it all this time,
[20:54] Anne
    but today it turned to certainty.
[20:58] Jane
    You too, Anne?
[21:03] Anne
    Yes.
[21:04] Anne
    We all have.
[21:12] Anne
    Marilla, I'm going to be a teacher!
[21:15] Anne
    I'll get a First-Class license and
    be a teacher like Miss Stacy!
[21:20] Anne
    That is my purpose!
[21:22] Marilla
    I told you, you needn't think so grand.
[21:25] Marilla
    But I had a feeling you'd say that.
[21:28] Anne
    I shall take more interest
    than ever in my studies now.
[21:33] Marilla
    I dare say you'll get along well enough.
[21:36] Marilla
    You needn't rush to any extreme of
    killing yourself over your books.
[21:40] Marilla
    There is no hurry.
[21:41] Anne
    Yes, I know.
[21:43] Anne
    But I must tell Matthew about—
[21:47] Marilla
    Matthew?
[21:53] Marilla
    Matthew!
[21:55] Marilla
    What's the matter with you?
[22:00] Marilla
    Matthew!
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