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Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter IV · Chapter 4

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THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.
I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.
She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.
That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.
But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.
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Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter IV · Chapter 4

Chapter 4 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 63 sentences across 13 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/12 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.
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I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.
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She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.
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That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.
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But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

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a

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

and

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

Anne

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

at

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

been

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

bitter

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

blossom-drift

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

breeze

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

BRIDE

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

brought

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

But

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

by

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

childhood

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

consecrated

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

crept

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

curtains

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

day

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

disappointment

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

dreams

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

endeared

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

find

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

FIRST

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

for

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

frolicking

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

gable

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

GABLES

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

glad

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

GREEN

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

had

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

happily

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

happy

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

her

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

I'm

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

in

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

it

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

little

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

maiden

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

me

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

morning

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

night

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

not

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

OF

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

old

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

on

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

porch

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

preceding

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

Queen

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

recalled

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

room

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

September

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

she

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

shine

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

since

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

Snow

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

so

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

sun

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

sunshine

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

that

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

THE

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

then

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

thought

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

through

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

to

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

visions

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

wakened

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

wakening

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From this reading That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night.

wedding

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

when

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From this reading She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen.

will

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From this reading “I’m so glad the sun will shine on me,” she thought happily.

window

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

winking

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

with

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From this reading THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES Anne wakened on the morning of her wedding day to find the sunshine winking in at the window of the little porch gable and a September breeze frolicking with her curtains.

years

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From this reading But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

Chapter 4 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery holds 63 sentences, grouped into 13 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 4 of Anne's House of Dreams contain?

Chapter 4 holds 63 sentences of Anne's House of Dreams, unabridged, divided into 13 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 4 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 63 sentences, grouped into 13 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 4 of Anne's House of Dreams?

Work through the 13 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 13 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 4 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 4 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Yes. All 5529 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #544 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #544, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Anne's House of Dreams take to read?

About 460 minutes of reading across 1106 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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