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Wherever you listen to podcasts today, we'll be continuing anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maude Montgomery chapter 20 Lost Margaret Anne found that she could go on living.
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The day came when she even smiled again over one of Miss Cornelia's speeches.
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But there was something in the smile that had never been an Anne's smile before and would never be absent from it again.
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On the first day she was able to go for a drive, Gilbert took her down to Four Winds Point and left her there while he rode over the channel to see a patient at the fishing village.
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A rollicking wind was scudding across the harbor and the dunes, whipping the water into white caps and washing the sand shore with long lines of silvery breakers.
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I'm real proud to see you here again, Mistress Blithe, said Captain Gem.
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Sit down, sit down.
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I'm afared.
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It's mighty dusty here today, but there's no need of looking at dust when you can look at such scenery, is there?
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I don't mind the dust, said Anne, but Gilbert says I must keep in the open air.
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I think I'll go and sit on the rocks down there.
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Would you like company or would you rather be alone?
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If by company you mean yours, I'd much rather have it than be alone, said Anne, smiling.
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Then she sighed.
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She had never before minded being alone.
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Now she dreaded it when she was alone.
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Now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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Here's a nice little spot where the wind can't get at you, said Captain Jim.
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When they reach the rocks, I often sit here.
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It's a great place just to sit and dream.
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Oh, dreams, sighed Anne.
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I can't dream now.
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Captain jim.
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I'm done with dreams.
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Oh, no you're not, Mistress Blithe.
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Oh no you're not, said captain Jim Meditatively, I know how you feel just now, but if you keep on living, you'll get glad again.
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And the first thing you know, you'll be dreaming again.
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Thank the good Lord for it.
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If it wasn't for our dreams, they might as well bury us how'd we stand live.
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And if it wasn't for our dream of immortality and that's a dream that's bound to come true, Mistress Blythe.
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You'll see your little Joyce again someday.
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But she won't be my baby, said Anne with trembling lips.
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She may be as longfellow says, a fair maiden clothed with celestial grace, but she'll be a stranger to me.
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God will manage better than that, I believe, said Captain Jim.
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They were both silent for a little time.
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Then Captain Jim said very softly, mistress Blade, may I tell you about lost Margaret?
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Of course, said Anne Gently.
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She did not know who Lost Margaret was, but she felt that she was going to hear the romance of Captain Jim's life.
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I've often wanted to tell you about her, Captain Jim went on.
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Do you know why, Mistress Blive?
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It's because I want somebody to remember and think of her sometime after I'm gone.
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I can't bear that her name should be forgotten by all living souls.
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And now nobody remembers lost Margaret but me.
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Then Captain Jim told the story, an old, old, forgotten story.
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For it was over 50 years since Margaret had fallen asleep one day in her father's dory and drifted, or so it was supposed, for nothing was ever certainly known as to her fate.
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Out of the channel beyond to the bar to perish in the black thunder squall which had come up so suddenly that long ago summer afternoon.
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But the Captain Jim, those 50 years were butted yesterday when it has passed.
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Ah walked the shore for months after that, he said sadly, looking to find her dear, sweet little body.
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But the sea never give her back to me.
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But I'll find her sometime, Mr.
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Split.
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I'll find her sometime.
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She's waiting for me.
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I wish I could tell you just how she looked, but I can't.
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I've seen a fine silvery mist hanging over the bar at sunrise that seemed like her.
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And then again, I've seen a white birch in the woods back yonder that made me think of her.
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She had pale brown hair and a little white, sweet face and long, slender fingers like yours, Miss Resplide, only browner, for she was a shore girl.
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Sometimes I wake up in the night and hear the sea calling to me in the old way, and it seems as if Lost Margaret called in it.
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And when there's a storm and the waves are sobbing and moaning, I hear her lamenting among them.
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And when they laugh on a gay day, it's her laugh, lost Margaret's sweet, Rogish little laugh.
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The sea took her from me.
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But someday I'll find her, Mistress Blade.
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It can't keep us apart.
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Forever.
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I'm glad you've told me about her, said Anne.
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I've often wondered why you had lived all your life alone.
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I couldn't ever care for anyone else.
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Lost Margaret took my heart with her out there, said the old lover who had been faithful for 50 years to his drowned sweetheart.
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You won't mind if I talk a good deal about her, will you, Mistress Blive?
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It's a pleasure to me.
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For all the pain went out of her memory years ago and just left its blessing.
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I know you'll never forget her, Mistress Blive.
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And if the years, as I hope, bring other little folks to your home, I want you to promise me that you'll tell them the story of Lost Margaret so that her name won't be forgotten among humankind.
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