Anne Blythe (annewithane) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2014-07-26 13:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | !network post, anne shirley (books), walter blythe |
I'm sure that there has been a very large misunderstanding, because you see I was meant to wake up in my own bed in Green Gables. But the nice woman who found me this morning, Miss Clara, told me that isn't the case, but I think that there is something very seriously wrong. What could anyone want with a poor orphan girl like me in such a large city? Mrs. Rachel Lynde has told me many times how dangerous it is, to live in a city like this. But surely she's wrong, because there are SO MANY people! I saw most of them when I looked out my window this morning. This building is very tall, isn't it? I want to go outside and see how tall it is for myself, but I'm sure that I'll get lost. I saw other, taller buildings, but I don't know how they can stay up without falling down. Isn't anyone afraid that they'll collapse?
Is this New York City? I'm sure that Miss Clara told me so, but it's really hard to believe, isn't it?
There are pictures here, of someone who looks like she COULD be me, and in one she's standing with someone who is undoubtedly my bosom friend Diana Barry, but we're both grown up and I'm wearing a wedding dress, and in another photograph I am standing with someone who looks like Gilbert Blythe. But that's ridiculous, because I wouldn't marry Gilbert Blythe if he were the last person on earth that I COULD marry. And there are other pictures, with the me that isn't really me because how could she be? But she's standing with two very handsome men and they all look very happy. I wonder who they are?
I... suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Anne Shirley. Spelt, as you can see, with an E. But please, call me Cordelia. It is a perfectly elegant name, and ever-so-much better than Anne. It's such a sensible name, and even though Miss Marilla Cuthbert, who along with her brother Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, took me in to raise me as best they can, says that having a sensible name is so much better than having a flittery name like Cordelia.