•Of course you must be Elaine, Anne," said Diana.
•"I could never have the courage to float down there."
•"Nor I," said Ruby Gillis, with a shiver.
•"I don't mind floating down when there's two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up.
•But to lie down and pretend I was dead--I just couldn't.
•I'd die really of fright."
•"Of course it would be romantic," conceded Jane Andrews, "but I know I couldn't keep still.
•I'd be popping up every minute or so to see where I was and if I wasn't drifting too far out.
•And you know, Anne, that would spoil the effect."
•"But it's so ridiculous to have a redheaded Elaine," mourned Anne.
•"I'm not afraid to float down and I'd love to be Elaine.
•But it's ridiculous just the same.
•Ruby ought to be Elaine because she is so fair and has such lovely long golden hair-- Elaine had `all her bright hair streaming down,' you know.
•And Elaine was the lily maid.
•Now, a red-haired person cannot be a lily maid."
•"Your complexion is just as fair as Ruby's," said Diana earnestly, "and your hair is ever so much darker than it used to be before you cut it."
•"Oh, do you really think so?" •exclaimed Anne, flushing sensitively with delight.
•"I've sometimes thought it was myself--but I never dared to ask anyone for fear she would tell me it wasn't.
•Do you think it could be called auburn now, Diana?"
•"Yes, and I think it is real pretty," said Diana, looking admiringly at the short, silky curls that clustered over Anne's head and were held in place by a very jaunty black velvet ribbon and bow.
•They were standing on the bank of the pond, below Orchard Slope, where a little headland fringed with birches ran out from the bank; at its tip was a small wooden platform built out into the water for the convenience of fishermen and duck hunters.
•Ruby and Jane were spending the midsummer afternoon with Diana, and Anne had come over to play with them.
•Anne and Diana had spent most of their playtime that summer on and about the pond.
•Idlewild was a thing of the past, Mr.Bell having ruthlessly cut down the little circle of trees in his back pasture in the spring.
•Anne had sat among the stumps and wept, not without an eye to the romance of it; but she was speedily consoled, for, after all, as she and Diana said, big girls of thirteen, going on fourteen, were too old for such childish amusements as playhouses, and there were more fascinating sports to be found about the pond.
•It was splendid to fish for trout over the bridge and the two girls learned to row themselves about in the little flat-bottomed dory Mr.Barry kept for duck shooting.
•It was Anne's idea that they dramatize Elaine.
•They had studied Tennyson's poem in school the preceding winter, the Superintendent of Education having prescribed it in the English course for the Prince Edward Island schools. •They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot.
•Those days, she said, were so much more romantic than the present.
•Anne's plan was hailed with enthusiasm.
•The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond.
•They had often gone down like this and nothing could be more convenient for playing Elaine.
•"Well, I'll be Elaine," said Anne, yielding reluctantly, for, although she would have been delighted to play the principal character, yet her artistic sense demanded fitness for it and this, she felt, her limitations made impossible.
•"Ruby, you must be King Arthur and Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot.
•But first you must be the brothers and the father.
•We can't have the old dumb servitor because there isn't room for two in the flat when one is lying down.
•We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite.
•That old black shawl of your mother's will be just the thing, Diana."
•The black shawl having been procured, Anne spread it over the flat and then lay down on the bottom, with closed eyes and hands folded over her breast.
•"Oh, she does look really dead," whispered Ruby Gillis nervously, watching the still, white little face under the flickering shadows of the birches.
•"It makes me feel frightened, girls. •Do you suppose it's really right to act like this?
•Mrs.Lynde says that all play-acting is abominably wicked."
•"Ruby, you shouldn't talk about Mrs.Lynde," said Anne severely.
•"It spoils the effect because this is hundreds of years before Mrs.Lynde was born.
•Jane, you arrange this. •It's silly for Elaine to be talking when she's dead."
•Jane rose to the occasion.
•Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute.
•A white lily was not obtainable just then, but the effect of a tall blue iris placed in one of Anne's folded hands was all that could be desired.
•"Now, she's all ready," said Jane.
•"We must kiss her quiet brows and, Diana, you say, `Sister, farewell forever,' and Ruby, you say, `Farewell, sweet sister,' both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can.
•Anne, for goodness sake smile a little.
•You know Elaine `lay as though she smiled.' •That's better. •Now push the flat off."
•The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process.
•Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods, across the road, and down to the lower headland where, as Lancelot and Guinevere and the King, they were to be in readiness to receive the lily maid.
•For a few minutes Anne, drifting slowly down, enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full.
•Then something happened not at all romantic.
•The flat began to leak. •In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
•That sharp stake at the landing had torn off the strip of batting nailed on the flat.
•Anne did not know this, but it did not take her long to realize that she was in a dangerous plight.
•At this rate the flat would fill and sink long before it could drift to the lower headland.
•Left behind at the landing!
•Anne gave one gasping little scream which nobody ever heard; she was white to the lips, but she did not lose her self-possession.
•There was one chance--just one.
•"I was horribly frightened," she told Mrs.Allan the next day, "and it seemed like years while the flat was drifting down to the bridge and the water rising in it every moment.
•I prayed, Mrs.Allan, most earnestly, but I didn't shut my eyes to pray, for I knew the only way God could save me was to let the flat float close enough to one of the bridge piles for me to climb up on it.
•You know the piles are just old tree trunks and there are lots of knots and old branch stubs on them.
•It was proper to pray, but I had to do my part by watching out and right well I knew it.
•I just said, `Dear God, please take the flat close to a pile and I'll do the rest,' over and over again.
•Under such circumstances you don't think much about making a flowery prayer.
•But mine was answered, for the flat bumped right into a pile for a minute and I flung the scarf and the shawl over my shoulder and scrambled up on a big providential stub.
•And there I was, Mrs. Allan, clinging to that slippery old pile with no way of getting up or down.
•It was a very unromantic position, but I didn't think about that at the time.
•You don't think much about romance when you have just escaped from a watery grave.
•I said a grateful prayer at once and then I gave all my attention to holding on tight, for I knew I should probably have to depend on human aid to get back to dry land."
•The flat drifted under the bridge and then promptly sank in midstream.
•Ruby, Jane, and Diana, already awaiting it on the lower headland, saw it disappear before their very eyes and had not a doubt but that Anne had gone down with it.
•For a moment they stood still, white as sheets, frozen with horror at the tragedy; then, shrieking at the tops of their voices, they started on a frantic run up through the woods, never pausing as they crossed the main road to glance the way of the bridge.
•Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.
•Help would soon come, but meanwhile her position was a very uncomfortable one.
•The minutes passed by, each seeming an hour to the unfortunate lily maid.
•Where had the girls gone? •Suppose they had fainted, one and all!
•Suppose she grew so tired and cramped that she could hold on no longer!
•Anne looked at the wicked green depths below her, wavering with long, oily shadows, and shivered.
•Her imagination began to suggest all manner of gruesome possibilities to her.
•Then, just as she thought she really could not endure the ache in her arms and wrists another moment, Gilbert Blythe came rowing under the bridge in Harmon Andrews's dory!
•Gilbert glanced up and, much to his amazement, beheld a little white scornful face looking down upon him with big, frightened but also scornful gray eyes.
•"Anne Shirley! •How on earth did you get there?" •he exclaimed.
•Without waiting for an answer he pulled close to the pile and extended his hand.
•There was no help for it; Anne, clinging to Gilbert Blythe's hand, scrambled down into the dory, where she sat, drabbled and furious, in the stern with her arms full of dripping shawl and wet crepe.
•It was certainly extremely difficult to be dignified under the circumstances!
•"What has happened, Anne?" •asked Gilbert, taking up his oars.
•"We were playing Elaine" explained Anne frigidly, without even looking at her rescuer, "and I had to drift down to Camelot in the barge--I mean the flat.
•The flat began to leak and I climbed out on the pile.
•The girls went for help.
•Will you be kind enough to row me to the landing?"
•Gilbert obligingly rowed to the landing and Anne, disdaining assistance, sprang nimbly on shore.
•"I'm very much obliged to you," she said haughtily as she turned away.
•But Gilbert had also sprung from the boat and now laid a detaining hand on her arm.
•"Anne," he said hurriedly, "look here.
•Can't we be good friends? •I'm awfully sorry I made fun of your hair that time.
•I didn't mean to vex you and I only meant it for a joke.
•Besides, it's so long ago. •I think your hair is awfully pretty now--honest I do.
•For a moment Anne hesitated.
•She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert's hazel eyes was something that was very good to see. •Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat.
•But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination.
•That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday.
•Gilbert had called her "carrots" and had brought about her disgrace before the whole school.
•Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly.
•She hated Gilbert Blythe! •She would never forgive him!
•"No," she said coldly, "I shall never be friends with you, Gilbert Blythe; and I don't want to be!"
•"All right!" •Gilbert sprang into his skiff with an angry color in his cheeks.
•"I'll never ask you to be friends again, Anne Shirley. •And I don't care either!"
•He pulled away with swift defiant strokes, and Anne went up the steep, ferny little path under the maples.
•She held her head very high, but she was conscious of an odd feeling of regret.
•She almost wished she had answered Gilbert differently.
•Of course, he had insulted her terribly, but still--! •Altogether, Anne rather thought it would be a relief to sit down and have a good cry.
•She was really quite unstrung, for the reaction from her fright and cramped clinging was making itself felt.
•Halfway up the path she met Jane and Diana rushing back to the pond in a state narrowly removed from positive frenzy.
•They had found nobody at Orchard Slope, both Mr. and Mrs. Barry being away.
•Here Ruby Gillis had succumbed to hysterics, and was left to recover from them as best she might, while Jane and Diana flew through the Haunted Wood and across the brook to Green Gables.
•There they had found nobody either, for Marilla had gone to Carmody and Matthew was making hay in the back field.
•"Oh, Anne," gasped Diana, fairly falling on the former's neck and weeping with relief and delight, "oh, Anne--we thought--you were--drowned--and we felt like murderers--because we had made--you be--Elaine.
•And Ruby is in hysterics--oh, Anne, how did you escape?"
•"I climbed up on one of the piles," explained Anne wearily, "and Gilbert Blythe came along in Mr. Andrews's dory and brought me to land."
•"Oh, Anne, how splendid of him! •Why, it's so romantic!" •said Jane, finding breath enough for utterance at last.
•"Of course you'll speak to him after this."
•"Of course I won't," flashed Anne, with a momentary return of her old spirit.
•"And I don't want ever to hear the word `romantic' again, Jane Andrews.
•I'm awfully sorry you were so frightened, girls. •It is all my fault. •I feel sure I was born under an unlucky star.
•Everything I do gets me or my dearest friends into a scrape.
•We've gone and lost your father's flat, Diana, and I have a presentiment that we'll not be allowed to row on the pond any more."
•Anne's presentiment proved more trustworthy than presentiments are apt to do.
•Great was the consternation in the Barry and Cuthbert households when the events of the afternoon became known.
•"Will you ever have any sense, Anne?" •groaned Marilla.
•"Oh, yes, I think I will, Marilla," returned Anne optimistically.
•A good cry, indulged in the grateful solitude of the east gable, had soothed her nerves and restored her to her wonted cheerfulness.
•"I think my prospects of becoming sensible are brighter now than ever" "I don't see how," said Marilla.
•"Well," explained Anne, "I've learned a new and valuable lesson today.
•Ever since I came to Green Gables I've been making mistakes, and each mistake has helped to cure me of some great shortcoming.
•The affair of the amethyst brooch cured me of meddling with things that didn't belong to me. •The Haunted Wood mistake cured me of letting my imagination run away with me.
•The liniment cake mistake cured me of carelessness in cooking.
•Dyeing my hair cured me of vanity.
•I never think about my hair and nose now--at least, very seldom. •And today's mistake is going to cure me of being too romantic.
•I have come to the conclusion that it is no use trying to be romantic in Avonlea.
•It was probably easy enough in towered Camelot hundreds of years ago, but romance is not appreciated now.
•I feel quite sure that you will soon see a great improvement in me in this respect, Marilla."
•"I'm sure I hope so," said Marilla skeptically.
•But Matthew, who had been sitting mutely in his corner, laid a hand on Anne's shoulder when Marilla had gone out.
•"Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little of it is a good thing--not too much, of course--but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it."
•"Natürlich musst du Elaine sein, Anne", sagte Diana.
•"Ich könnte nie den Mut haben, dort hinunter zu treiben."
•"Ich auch nicht", sagte Ruby Gillis schaudernd.
•"Ich habe nichts dagegen hinunterzutreiben, wenn zwei oder drei von uns im Nachen sind und wir aufrecht sitzen können.
•Aber mich hinzulegen und so zu tun, als ob ich tot wäre -- ich könnte es einfach nicht.
•Ich würde wirklich sterben - vor Angst."
•"Natürlich wäre es romantisch", räumte Jane Andrews ein, " aber ich weiß, dass ich nicht still liegen könnte.
•Ich würde jede Minute oder so hochkommen, um zu sehen, wo ich wäre und ob ich nicht zu weit abdriften würde.
•Und du weißt, Anne, das würde den Effekt verderben."
•"Aber es ist so lächerlich, eine rothaarige Elaine zu haben", jammerte Anne.
•"Ich habe keine Angst hinunterzutreiben, und ich würde sehr gerne Elaine sein.
•Aber es ist trotzdem lächerlich.
•Ruby sollte die Elaine sein, weil sie so schön ist und so herrliche, lange, goldene Haare hat -- ' Elaines leuchtende Haare flossen alle herab', ihr wisst schon.
•Und Elaine war das Lilienmädchen.
•Also, eine rothaarige Person kann kein Lilienmädchen sein."
•"Dein Aussehen ist genauso schön, wie das von Ruby", sagte Diana aufrichtig," und dein Haar ist so viel dunkler, als es war, bevor du es geschnitten hast."
•"Oh, denkst du das wirklich?" •rief Anne und errötete zart vor Freude.
•"Manchmal habe ich das auch gedacht -- aber ich habe nie gedacht, jemand zu fragen, aus Angst, sie würden mir sagen, dass es nicht so wäre.
•Glaubst du, dass es jetzt goldbraun genannt werden könnte, Diana?"
•"Ja, und ich denke, es ist wirklich hübsch", sagte Diana und schaute bewundernd auf die kurzen, seidigen Locken, die sich auf Annes Kopf drängten und durch einen sehr kekken, schwarzen, samtenen Haarreif an ihrem Platz gehalten wurden.
•Sie standen am Ufer des Teichs unterhalb von Orchard Slope, wo sich eine kleine Landzunge, die von Birken gesäumt war, sich erstreckte; an ihrer Spitze war ein kleiner hölzerner Steg, der um der Fischer und Entenjäger willen ins Wasser hinaus gebaut worden war.
•Ruby und Jane verbrachten den Mitsommernachmittag mit Diana, und Anne war herübergekommen, um mit ihnen zu spielen.
•Anne und Diana hatten den größten Teil ihrer Spielzeit in diesem Sommer auf und rund um den Weiher verbracht.
•Idlewild war Vergangenheit, da Mr. Bell unbarmherzig den kleinen Baumkreis in seiner hinteren Weide im Frühling umgehackt hatte.
•Anne hatte zwischen den Baumstümpfen gesessen und geweint, nicht ohne die Romantik dabei vor Augen zu haben, aber sie war schnell getröstet, als sie und Diana sich sagten, dass große Mädchen von dreizehn, die auf die Vierzehn zugingen, zu alt waren für solch kindlichen Vergnügungen wie Spielhäuser und es gab weit faszinierendere Spiele am Weiher zu finden.
•Es war herrlich, von der Brücke Forellen zu angeln und die beiden Mädchen lernten in einem kleinen flachen Boot, das Mr. Barry für das Schießen von Enten nahm, selbst zu rudern.
•Es war Annes Idee, Elaine aufzuführen.
•Sie hatten im vorherigen Winter Tennysons Gedicht in der Schule gelernt, nachdem der Schuldezernent es für den Englischkurs der Prince Edward Island Schulen angeordnet hatte. •Sie hatten es analysiert und gegliedert und generell auseinandergenommen, bis es ein Wunder war, dass noch überhaupt irgendein Sinn in ihm vorhanden war, aber wenigstens waren das schöne Lilienmädchen und Lancelot und Guinevere und König Arthur im wahrsten Sinn für sie zu Menschen geworden, und Anne wurde von heimlichem Bedauern verzehrt, dass sie nicht auf Camelot geboren worden war.
•Diese Zeiten, sagte sie, waren viel romantischer als das Heute.
•Annes Plan wurde begeistert aufgenommen.
•Die Mädchen hatten herausgefunden, dass wenn der Nachen von der Anlegestelle abgestoßen wurde, er mit der Strömung unter der Brücke durch driften würde und letzlich auf einer anderen, abwärts gelegenen Landzunge, die in einem Bogen in den Teich ragte, stranden würde.
•Sie waren schon oft so hinabgefahren und nichts konnte passender dafür sein, Elaine zu spielen.
•"Gut, ich werde Elaine sein", gab Anne widerwillig nach, da, obwohl sie begeistert gewesen wäre, die Hauptrolle zu spielen, ihr künstlerisches Gespür dennoch Eignung dafür verlangte und dies, fühlte sie, machten ihre Einschränkungen unmöglich.
•"Ruby, du musst König Arthur sein und Jane wird Guinevere und Diana muss Lancelot sein.
•Aber zuerst müsst ihr die Brüder und der Vater sein.
•Wir können keinen alten, stummen Diener haben, weil im Boot nicht genug Platz ist, wenn einer liegt.
•Wir müssen den Kahn in seiner ganzen Länge mit schwärzestem Samit bedecken.
•Der alte schwarze Schal deiner Mutter wird genau das sein, was wir brauchen, Diana."
•Nachdem der alte Schal besorgt worden war, breitete Anne ihn über den Nachen und legte sich dann mit geschlossenen Augen und über die Brust gefaltete Hände auf den Boden.
•"Oh, sie sieht wirklich tot aus", wisperte Ruby aufgeregt, als sie das unbewegte, kleine Gesicht unter den flimmernden Schatten der Birken ansah.
•"Es macht mir Angst, Mädels. •Glaubt ihr, dass es wirklich richtig ist, so zu spielen?
•Mrs. Lynde sagt, dass jedes Theaterspiel furchtbar verdorben ist."
•"Ruby, du solltest nicht über Mrs. Lynde reden", sagte Anne streng.
•Es verdirbt den Spaß, weil dies Hunderte von Jahren, bevor Mrs. Lynde geboren wurde spielt.
•Jane, du organisierst das. •Es ist dumm, dass Elaine spricht, wenn sie tot ist."
•Jane zeigte sich der Situation gewachsen.
•Es gab keine goldene Bettdecke, aber eine alte Klavierabdeckung aus gelbem, japanischen Krepp war ein ausgezeichneter Ersatz.
•Eine weiße Lilie war gerade dann nicht verfügbar, aber die Wirkung einer großen blauen Iris, in einer von Annes gefalteten Händen platziert, war alles, was man sich wünschen konnte.
•"Jetzt ist sie bereit", sagte Jane.
•"Wir müssen ihre stille Stirn küssen und Diana, du sagst: 'Schwester, Lebe wohl für immer', und Ruby, du sagst :'Lebe wohl, süße Schwester', beide so bekümmert, wie ihr könnt.
•Anne, um Himmels Willen, lächele ein bisschen.
•Du weißt, Elaine 'lag, als ob sie lächelte'. •Das ist besser. •Nun stoß das Boot ab."
•Der Kahn wurde demnach abgeschoben und scharrte dabei grob über einen alten eingebetteten Pfahl.
•Diana, Jane und Ruby warteten nur lange genug, bis sie sahen, wie er von der Strömung mitgerissen wurde und auf die Brücke zusteuerte, bevor sie durch den Wald flitzten, über die Straße und hinunter zu der unteren Landzunge, wo sie, als Lancelot, Guinevere und der König, bereit sein würden, das Lilienmädchen zu empfangen.
•Dann passierte etwas, was überhaupt nicht romantisch war.
•Der Kahn fing an zu lecken. •Schon wenige Augenblicke später war es für Elaine nötig, auf die Füße zu springen, ihre goldene Bettdecke und das Sargtuch aus schwärzestem Samit aufzuheben und verblüfft auf einen großen Riss im Boden ihres Bootes zu starren, durch den das Wasser buchstäblich strömte.
•Dieser scharfe Pfahl an der Anlegestelle hatte den Füllstreifen, der in die Barke genagelt war, abgerissen.
•Anne wusste das nicht, aber sie brauchte nicht lange, um zu begreifen, dass sie in einer gefährlichen Notlage war.
•Bei diesem Tempo würde sich der Nachen füllen und sinken, bevor er zu der tiefer gelegenen Landzunge treiben konnte.
•Anne gab einen keuchenden, kleinen Schrei von sich, wie ihn niemand jemals hörte; sie war weiß bis zu den Lippen, aber sie verlor ihre Selbstbeherrschung nicht.
•Es gab eine Chance - genau eine.
•"Es war schrecklich beängstigend ", erzählte sie Mrs. Allan am nächsten Tag," und es schienen Jahre zu vergehen, während das Boot zur Brücke heruntertrieb und das Wasser darin ununterbrochen stieg.
•Ich betete, Mrs.Allan, äußerst ernsthaft, aber ich schloss zum Beten nicht meine Augen, weil ich wusste, dass der einzige Weg, auf dem Gott mich retten könnte, war, das Boot nah genug für mich an einen Brückenpfosten treiben zu lassen, um darauf zu klettern.
•Sie wissen, die Pfosten sind nur alte Baumstämme und es sind eine Menge Verwachsungen und alte Aststümpfe darauf.
•Es war richtig, zu beten, aber ich musste meinen Teil dazu tun, indem ich Ausschau hielt und das wusste ich genau.
•Ich sagte einfach immer und immer wieder: ' Lieber Gott, bitte bring das Boot nahe zu einem Pfosten und ich werde den Rest erledigen'.
•Unter solchen Umständen denkt man nicht viel darüber nach, ein ausgeschmücktes Gebet zu erstellen.
•Aber meins wurde erhört, da die Barke direkt für einen Augenblick gegen den Pfahl stieß und ich schmiss Schal und Tuch über meine Schulter und kraxelte auf einen großen, günstigen Stumpf hinauf.
•Und da war ich nun, Mrs. Allan, an den alten, rutschigen Pfosten geklammert, ohne Möglichkeit, hoch oder runter zu kommen.
•Es war eine sehr unromantische Lage, aber zu der Zeit verlor ich keinen Gedanken daran.
•Man denkt nicht viel an Romantik, wenn man gerade einem wässrigen Grab entflohen ist.
•Ich sprach sofort ein Dankesgebet und dann verwendete ich all meine Aufmerksamkeit darauf, mich festzuhalten, da ich wusste, dass ich vermutlich auf menschliche Hilfe angewiesen sein würde, um zurück auf trockenes Land zu kommen."
•Die Barke trieb unter der Brücke hindurch und versank dann unverzüglich in der Strommitte.
•Ruby, Jane und Diana, die schon an der unteren Landzunge darauf warteten, sahen es vor ihren Augen verschwinden und hatten keinen Zweifel, dass Anne mit untergegangen war.
•Einen Moment lang standen sie unbewegt, weiß wie Laken, vor Grauen über die Tragödie erstarrt; dann, lauthals kreischend, begannen sie einen verzweifelten Lauf hinauf durch den Wald, ohne jede Pause, als sie die Hauptstraße überquerten, um einen Blick auf den Weg zur Brücke zu werfen.
•Anne, die sich verzweifelt an ihren unsicheren Halt klammerte, sah ihre fliegenden Gestalten und hörte ihre gellenden Schreie.
•Es würde bald Hilfe kommen, aber inzwischen war ihre Lage sehr unangenehm.
•Die Minuten vergingen, jede erschien dem unglücklichen Lilienmädchen wie eine Stunde.
•Wohin waren die Mädchen gegangen? •Angenommen, sie wären samt und sonders ohnmächtig geworden!
•Angenommen, es würde niemals jemand kommen!
•Angenommen, sie würde so erschöpft und verkrampft sein, dass sie sich nicht länger halten könnte!
•Anne schaute auf die gefährliche, grüne Tiefe unter ihr, schwankend mit öligen, langen Schatten, und sie erschauderte.
•Ihre Fantasie begann, sich alle Arten von grausigen Möglichkeiten für sie auszumalen.
•Dann, gerade als sie dachte, sie könne die Schmerzen in ihren Armen und Handgelenken nicht mehr ertragen, kam Gilbert Blythe in Harmon Andrews Dory unter die Brücke gerudert.
•Gilbert blickte nach oben und sah zu seinem Erstaunen ein kleines, weißes verächtliches Gesicht, das mit großen, verängstigten, aber auch verächtlichen, grauen Augen auf ihn herabblickte.
•"Anne Shirley! •Wie bist du nur dorthin gekommen? •rief er aus.
•Ohne eine Antwort abzuwarten, ruderte er nahe an den Pfosten und streckte seine Hand aus.
•Es gab dafür; Anne klammerte sich an Gilbert Blythes Hand, krabbelte in das Dory, wo sie mit ihren Armen voller tropfender Tücher und nassem Krepp , verschmutzt und wütend im Heck saß.
•Es war allerdings äußerst schwierig, unter diesen Umständen würdevoll zu sein!
•"Was ist passiert, Anne?" •, fragte Gilbert und nahm seine Ruder hoch.
•"Wir spielten Elaine", erklärte Anne kühl, ohne ihren Retter überhaupt anzuschauen, "und ich musste in der Barke -- ich meine in dem Boot -- hinunter nach Camelot treiben.
•Das Boot begann vollzulaufen und ich kletterte hinaus auf den Pfosten.
•Die Mädchen gingen weg, um Hilfe zu holen.
•Wirst du so freundlich sein, mich an Land zu rudern?
•Gilbert ruderte sehr zuvorkommend an Land und Anne sprang flink, Hilfe verschmähend, auf das Ufer.
•"Ich bin dir sehr verpflichtet", sagte sie stolz, als sie sich wegdrehte.
•Aber Gilbert war ebenfalls aus dem Boot gesprungen, legte jetzt eine Hand auf ihren Arm und hielt sie zurück.
•"Anne", sagte er hastig, "schau mal.
•Können wir nicht gute Freunde sein? •Es tut mir schrecklich leid, dass ich mich damals über deine Haare lustig gemacht habe.
•Ich wollte dich nicht ärgern und es sollte nur ein Scherz sein.
•Außerdem ist es so lange her. •Ich finde, dein Haar ist jetzt schrecklich hübsch - ehrlich, das finde ich.
•Einen Augenblick lang zögerte Anne.
•Sie hatte ein ungewöhnliches, neu erwachtes Bewusstsein unter all ihrer empörten Würde, dass der halb scheue, halb eifrige Ausdruck in Gilberts haselnussbraunen Augen etwas war, das zu sehen, sehr gut tat. •Ihr Herz machte einen schnellen, sonderbaren kleinen Schlag.
•Aber die Bitterkeit ihrer alten Kränkung ließ ihre schwankende Entschlossenheit erstarren.
•Diese Szene von vor zwei Jahren blitzte so lebendig in ihrer Erinnerung auf, als sei es erst gestern geschehen.
•Gilbert hatte sie "Karottenkopf" genannt und vor der ganzen Schule blamiert.
•Ihre Abneigung, die für andere und ältere Menschen ebenso lächerlich sein mochte wie ihr Grund, war anscheinend kein bisschen durch die Zeit gemildert und verringert worden.
•Sie hasste Gilbert Blythe! •Sie würde ihm nie vergeben!
•" Nein", sagte sie kalt, " ich werde nie mit dir befreundet sein, Gilbert Blythe; und ich will es nicht sein!"
•"Also gut!" •Gilbert sprang mit zorngeröteten Wangen in sein Boot.
•Ich werde dich nie mehr darum bitten, dass wir wieder Freunde sind, Anne Shirley. •Und mir ist es auch egal!"
•Mit schnellen, trotzigen Schlägen ruderte er davon, und Anne ging unter den Ahornbäumen den steilen, farnigen, kleinen Pfad hinauf.
•Sie hielt ihren Kopf sehr hoch, aber sie war sich eines seltsamen Gefühls des Bedauerns bewusst.
•Sie wünschte fast, sie hätte Gilbert anders geantwortet.
•Natürlich, er hatte sie schrecklich beleidigt, aber dennoch---! •Anne glaubte fast, es würde eine Erleichterung sein, sich hinzusetzen und auszuweinen.
•Sie war wirklich ziemlich ungeschickt für die Reaktion von ihrem Schrecken und das verkrampfte Festhalten machte sich bemerkbar.
•Auf halber Höhe des Weges traf sie Jane und Diana, die in einem Zustand zum Teich zurückeilten, der nur wenig von positiver Raserei entfernt war.
•Sie hatten auf Orchard Slope niemanden gefunden und Mr. und Mrs. Barry waren beide weg.
•Hier hatte Ruby Gillis einen hysterischen Anfall und wurde zurückgelassen, um sich von ihm, so gut es ging, zu erholen, während Jane und Diana durch den Spukwald und über den Bach nach Green Gables flohen.
•Dort hatten sie auch niemanden gefunden, da Marilla nach Carmody gegangen war und Matthew Heu auf dem rückwärtigen Feld machte.
•"Oh, Anne", keuchte Diana und fiel ihr geradezu um den Hals und weinte dabei vor Erleichterung und Freude, " oh, Anne-- wir dachten-- du wärst -- ertrunken-- ubd wir fühlten uns wie Mörder-- weil wir dich-- zu Elaine-- gemacht hatten.
•Und Ruby hat einen hysterischen Anfall-- oh, Anne, wie bist du entkommen?"
•" Ich kletterte auf einen der Pfosten", erklärte Anne erschöpft, " und Gilbert Blythe kam in Mr. Andrews Dory vorbei und brachte mich an Land."
•" Oh, Anne, wie großartig von ihm! •Warum, es ist so romantisch!" •sagte Jane, die endlich genug Luft hatte, sich zu äußern.
•"Danach wirst du natürlich mit ihm sprechen."
•" Natürlich werde ich es nicht", versprühte Anne mit einer kurzen Rückkehr ihrer alten Gesinnung.
•" Und ich möchte das Wort 'romantisch' nie mehr wieder hören, Jane Andrews.
•Es tut mir furchtbar leid, dass ihr so viel Angst hattet, Mädels. •Es ist alles meine Schuld. •Ich bin mir sicher, ich wurde unter einem unglücklichen Stern geboren.
•Alles, was ich tue, bringt mich oder meine liebsten Freunde in Schwierigkeiten.
•Wir haben das Boot deines Vaters verloren und ich habe eine Ahnung, dass uns nicht mehr erlaubt wird, auf dem Weiher zu rudern."
•Annes Vorahnung erwies sich als zuverlässiger, als Vorahnungen es sonst zu sein pflegen.
•Groß war die Bestürzung in den Haushalten der Barrys und der Cuthberts, als die Ereignisse des Nachmittags bekannt wurden.
•"Wirst du jemals etwas Verstand haben, Anne?" •, ächzte Marilla.
•"Oh ja, ich denke, das werde ich, Marilla", antwortete Anne zuversichtlich.
•Ein ausgiebiges Weinen, dem sie sich in der dankbaren Einsamkeit des Ostgiebels hingegeben hatte, hatten ihre Nerven beruhigt und ihre gewohnte Fröhlichkeit wiederhergestellt.
•"Ich denke, meine Aussichten vernünftiger zu werden, sind besser als je zuvor." - "Ich wüsste nicht wieso", sagte Marilla.
•"Nun", erklärte Anne, "ich habe heute eine neue und wertvolle Lektion gelernt.
•Seit ich nach Green Gables kam, habe ich ständig Fehler gemacht und jeder Fehler hat mir geholfen, mich von einer großen Schwäche zu befreien.
•Der Linimentkuchen heilte mich von der Nachlässigkeit beim Kochen.
•Meine Haare zu färben heilte mich von Eitelkeit.
•Ich denke jetzt nie mehr an mein Haar oder meine Nase -- zumindest sehr selten. •Und der heutige Fehler wird mich davon heilen, zu romantisch zu sein.
•Ich bin zu der Feststellung gelangt, dass es in Avonlea nicht notwendig ist, romantisch zu sein.
•Es war wahrscheinlich einfach genug im emporragenden Camelot vor Hunderten von Jahren, aber jetzt wird Romantik nicht geschätzt.
•Ich bin ziemlich sicher, dass du bald bei mir einen großen Fortschritt in dieser Hinsicht erleben wirst, Marilla."
•"Das hoffe ich", sagte Marilla skeptisch.
•Aber Matthew, der stumm in seiner Ecke gesessen hatte, legte Anne eine Hand auf die Schulter, als Marilla hinausgegangen war.
•Gib nicht all deine Romantik auf, Anne," flüsterte er scheu, "ein bisschen davon ist eine gute Sache --nicht zu viel, natürlich --aber bewahre dir ein bisschen davon, Anne, bewahre dir ein bisschen davon."
Of course you must be Elaine, Anne," said Diana.
"I could never have the courage to float down there."
"Nor I," said Ruby Gillis, with a shiver.
"I don't mind floating down when there's two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up.
But to lie down and pretend I was dead--I just couldn't.
"Of course it would be romantic," conceded Jane Andrews, "but I know I couldn't keep still.
I'd be popping up every minute or so to see where I was and if I wasn't drifting too far out.
And you know, Anne, that would spoil the effect."
"But it's so ridiculous to have a redheaded Elaine," mourned Anne.
"I'm not afraid to float down and I'd love to be Elaine.
But it's ridiculous just the same.
Ruby ought to be Elaine because she is so fair and has such lovely long golden hair-- Elaine had `all her bright hair streaming down,' you know.
And Elaine was the lily maid.
Now, a red-haired person cannot be a lily maid."
"Oh, do you really think so?"
exclaimed Anne, flushing sensitively with delight.
"I've sometimes thought it was myself--but I never dared to ask anyone for fear she would tell me it wasn't.
Do you think it could be called auburn now, Diana?"
Ruby and Jane were spending the midsummer afternoon with Diana, and Anne had come over to play with them.
Anne and Diana had spent most of their playtime that summer on and about the pond.
Idlewild was a thing of the past, Mr.Bell having ruthlessly cut down the little circle of trees in his back pasture in the spring.
Anne had sat among the stumps and wept, not without an eye to the romance of it; but she was speedily consoled, for, after all, as she and Diana said, big girls of thirteen, going on fourteen, were too old for such childish amusements as playhouses, and there were more fascinating sports to be found about the pond.
It was splendid to fish for trout over the bridge and the two girls learned to row themselves about in the little flat-bottomed dory Mr.Barry kept for duck shooting.
It was Anne's idea that they dramatize Elaine.
They had studied Tennyson's poem in school the preceding winter, the Superintendent of Education having prescribed it in the English course for the Prince Edward Island schools.
They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot.
Those days, she said, were so much more romantic than the present.
Anne's plan was hailed with enthusiasm.
They had often gone down like this and nothing could be more convenient for playing Elaine.
"Well, I'll be Elaine," said Anne, yielding reluctantly, for, although she would have been delighted to play the principal character, yet her artistic sense demanded fitness for it and this, she felt, her limitations made impossible.
"Ruby, you must be King Arthur and Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot.
But first you must be the brothers and the father.
We can't have the old dumb servitor because there isn't room for two in the flat when one is lying down.
That old black shawl of your mother's will be just the thing, Diana."
"Oh, she does look really dead," whispered Ruby Gillis nervously, watching the still, white little face under the flickering shadows of the birches.
"It makes me feel frightened, girls.
Do you suppose it's really right to act like this?
Mrs.Lynde says that all play-acting is abominably wicked."
"Ruby, you shouldn't talk about Mrs.Lynde," said Anne severely.
"It spoils the effect because this is hundreds of years before Mrs.Lynde was born.
It's silly for Elaine to be talking when she's dead."
Jane rose to the occasion.
"Now, she's all ready," said Jane.
"We must kiss her quiet brows and, Diana, you say, `Sister, farewell forever,' and Ruby, you say, `Farewell, sweet sister,' both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can.
Anne, for goodness sake smile a little.
Now push the flat off."
The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process.
Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods, across the road, and down to the lower headland where, as Lancelot and Guinevere and the King, they were to be in readiness to receive the lily maid.
For a few minutes Anne, drifting slowly down, enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full.
Then something happened not at all romantic.
The flat began to leak.
That sharp stake at the landing had torn off the strip of batting nailed on the flat.
Anne did not know this, but it did not take her long to realize that she was in a dangerous plight.
At this rate the flat would fill and sink long before it could drift to the lower headland.
Left behind at the landing!
Anne gave one gasping little scream which nobody ever heard; she was white to the lips, but she did not lose her self-possession.
"I was horribly frightened," she told Mrs.Allan the next day, "and it seemed like years while the flat was drifting down to the bridge and the water rising in it every moment.
I prayed, Mrs.Allan, most earnestly, but I didn't shut my eyes to pray, for I knew the only way God could save me was to let the flat float close enough to one of the bridge piles for me to climb up on it.
You know the piles are just old tree trunks and there are lots of knots and old branch stubs on them.
It was proper to pray, but I had to do my part by watching out and right well I knew it.
I just said, `Dear God, please take the flat close to a pile and I'll do the rest,' over and over again.
Under such circumstances you don't think much about making a flowery prayer.
But mine was answered, for the flat bumped right into a pile for a minute and I flung the scarf and the shawl over my shoulder and scrambled up on a big providential stub.
And there I was, Mrs. Allan, clinging to that slippery old pile with no way of getting up or down.
It was a very unromantic position, but I didn't think about that at the time.
You don't think much about romance when you have just escaped from a watery grave.
I said a grateful prayer at once and then I gave all my attention to holding on tight, for I knew I should probably have to depend on human aid to get back to dry land."
Ruby, Jane, and Diana, already awaiting it on the lower headland, saw it disappear before their very eyes and had not a doubt but that Anne had gone down with it.
For a moment they stood still, white as sheets, frozen with horror at the tragedy; then, shrieking at the tops of their voices, they started on a frantic run up through the woods, never pausing as they crossed the main road to glance the way of the bridge.
Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.
Help would soon come, but meanwhile her position was a very uncomfortable one.
The minutes passed by, each seeming an hour to the unfortunate lily maid.
Where had the girls gone?
Suppose they had fainted, one and all!
Suppose she grew so tired and cramped that she could hold on no longer!
Anne looked at the wicked green depths below her, wavering with long, oily shadows, and shivered.
Her imagination began to suggest all manner of gruesome possibilities to her.
How on earth did you get there?"
It was certainly extremely difficult to be dignified under the circumstances!
asked Gilbert, taking up his oars.
"We were playing Elaine" explained Anne frigidly, without even looking at her rescuer, "and I had to drift down to Camelot in the barge--I mean the flat.
The girls went for help.
Will you be kind enough to row me to the landing?"
But Gilbert had also sprung from the boat and now laid a detaining hand on her arm.
"Anne," he said hurriedly, "look here.
Can't we be good friends?
I'm awfully sorry I made fun of your hair that time.
I didn't mean to vex you and I only meant it for a joke.
Besides, it's so long ago.
I think your hair is awfully pretty now--honest I do.
For a moment Anne hesitated.
She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert's hazel eyes was something that was very good to see.
Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat.
But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination.
That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday.
Gilbert had called her "carrots" and had brought about her disgrace before the whole school.
Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly.
She would never forgive him!
Gilbert sprang into his skiff with an angry color in his cheeks.
"I'll never ask you to be friends again, Anne Shirley.
He pulled away with swift defiant strokes, and Anne went up the steep, ferny little path under the maples.
She held her head very high, but she was conscious of an odd feeling of regret.
She almost wished she had answered Gilbert differently.
Of course, he had insulted her terribly, but still--!
Altogether, Anne rather thought it would be a relief to sit down and have a good cry.
Halfway up the path she met Jane and Diana rushing back to the pond in a state narrowly removed from positive frenzy.
They had found nobody at Orchard Slope, both Mr. and Mrs. Barry being away.
Here Ruby Gillis had succumbed to hysterics, and was left to recover from them as best she might, while Jane and Diana flew through the Haunted Wood and across the brook to Green Gables.
There they had found nobody either, for Marilla had gone to Carmody and Matthew was making hay in the back field.
"Oh, Anne," gasped Diana, fairly falling on the former's neck and weeping with relief and delight, "oh, Anne--we thought--you were--drowned--and we felt like murderers--because we had made--you be--Elaine.
And Ruby is in hysterics--oh, Anne, how did you escape?"
"Oh, Anne, how splendid of him!
said Jane, finding breath enough for utterance at last.
"Of course you'll speak to him after this."
"Of course I won't," flashed Anne, with a momentary return of her old spirit.
"And I don't want ever to hear the word `romantic' again, Jane Andrews.
I'm awfully sorry you were so frightened, girls.
I feel sure I was born under an unlucky star.
Everything I do gets me or my dearest friends into a scrape.
We've gone and lost your father's flat, Diana, and I have a presentiment that we'll not be allowed to row on the pond any more."
Anne's presentiment proved more trustworthy than presentiments are apt to do.
Great was the consternation in the Barry and Cuthbert households when the events of the afternoon became known.
"Will you ever have any sense, Anne?"
A good cry, indulged in the grateful solitude of the east gable, had soothed her nerves and restored her to her wonted cheerfulness.
"I think my prospects of becoming sensible are brighter now than ever" "I don't see how," said Marilla.
Ever since I came to Green Gables I've been making mistakes, and each mistake has helped to cure me of some great shortcoming.
The affair of the amethyst brooch cured me of meddling with things that didn't belong to me.
The Haunted Wood mistake cured me of letting my imagination run away with me.
Dyeing my hair cured me of vanity.
I have come to the conclusion that it is no use trying to be romantic in Avonlea.
It was probably easy enough in towered Camelot hundreds of years ago, but romance is not appreciated now.
I feel quite sure that you will soon see a great improvement in me in this respect, Marilla."
"Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little of it is a good thing--not too much, of course--but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it."
"Es war wahrscheinlich einfach genug im emporrag..."
"Danke euch und jetzt habe ich es auch geschafft..."
"Wir haben das Boot deines Vaters verloren und i..."
"Ich hätte noch "emporragenden Camelot" vorgesch..."
"Danke Wendy. Ich habe mir so etwas gedacht, abe..."
"Nur zur Erklärung: 'towered Camelot' bezieht si..."
"Vielleicht ginge es mit *flogen*. Umgangssüprac..."
"Sie sind einfach so schnell wie möglich gegangen."
"Und der heutige Fehler wird mich davon heilen, ..."
"Meine Haare zu färben heilte mich von Eitelkeit."
"Der Fehler mit dem verzauberten Wald heilte mic..."
"Annes Vorahnung erwies sich als zuverlässiger, ..."
"Wie bist du nur dorthin gekommen?"
"Es half nichts, Anne ..."
"Maria -Helenes erwies gefällt mir auch"
"Annes Vorahnung bewies sich als zuverlässiger, ..."
"Vorschlag Wie bist du nur dorthin gekommen?"
"Ja, Augenblick und gegen ist prima. Danke. Sc..."
"Aber meins wurde erhört, da die Barke direkt fü..."
"Diese Zeiten, sagte sie, waren viel romantische..."
"Es war herrlich, von der Brücke Forellen zu ang..."
"wenn ich präsenz schrieb, meinte ich gegenwart.:-("
"haha, ja,nett, dazu fällt mir dann noch ein: d..."
"Anne hatte zwischen den Baumstümpfen gesessen u..."
"Wie wäre der Satz ein wenig umgestellt: Sie st..."
""Dein Aussehen ist genauso schön, wie das von R..."
"Wie wäre: .. gewagt, jemanden zu fragen"
"Am Ende sind zwei Punkte reingerutscht."
"Es ging nicht anders; Anne..... Armen voll tro..."
"...davor, dass meine Fantasie mit mir davonrenn..."
"wenn du das durchaus wegläßt, musst du dir a..."
"Das Boot begann vollzulaufen und ich kletterte ..."
"" Natürlich werde ich es nicht", versprühte Ann..."
"Ja, ich weiß. Man kann es aber auch Dory nennen."
""Oh, Anne", keuchte Diana und fiel ihr geradezu..."
"Jerzt verstehe ich den Satz. Danke."
"Anne glaubte fast, es würde eine Erleichterung..."
"Natürlich, er hatte sie schrecklich beleidigt, ..."
"Es gab dafür; Anne klammerte sich an Gilbert Bl..."
"Gilbert blickte nach oben und sah zu seinem Ers..."
"Dann, gerade als sie dachte, sie könne die Schm..."
"... für einen Augenblick gegen den Pfahl stieß ..."
"... ganz ernsthaft (oder "sehr" "most" als Vers..."
"... Ich hatte schreckliche Angst..?"
"Ja, das stimmt. Man könnte einfach ssagen 'Oh, ..."
"Vorschlag Anne glaubte fast, dass es durchaus ..."
"Du hast recht KardaMom, einfach, 'wir haben ver..."
"...gefunden, Mr. und ....... (und ist zuviel)"
"fairly, in diesem Fall vielleicht : geradezu? ..."
"Dory wurde im Text schon mit kleines/flaches Bo..."
"das why hat hier sicher wieder eine der vielen ..."
"was hältst du denn von aufflammen anstatt funke..."
"ich habe bei dict dies gefunden: to go and lose..."
"are apt to : Präsenz?"
"upv. Ob das 'der' nicht weg könnte?"
"Diana, Jane und Ruby warteten nur lange genug, ..."
"Ja, KardaMom - das macht auch Sinn."
"dass, wenn .....oder? Ist doch ein eingeschoben..."
"Die Barke trieb unter der Brücke hindurch und v..."
""Strömung mitgerissen" hört sich aber schon so ..."
"Danke Bernard - das finde ich gut!"
"Noch mal mit Bernard's Vorschlag :-)"
"Viel besser, danke Bernard :-)"
"Dann passierte etwas, was überhaupt nicht roman..."
"... etwas, was überhaupt nicht romantisch war.?"
"... wie es von der Strömung mitgerissen wurde"
"Ihre Fantasie begann, sich alle Arten von graus..."
"Wir müssen den Kahn in seiner ganzen Länge mit ..."
"Ja, pall ist ein Sargtuch."
"Der alte schwarze Schal deiner Mutter wird gena..."
"Ohne eine Antwort abzuwarten, ruderte er nahe a..."
"Wie kamst du nur dorthin?""
"upv - Vielleicht noch .. auszumalen."
"Angenommen, sie würde so erschöpft und verkramp..."
"Anne schaute auf die gefährliche, grüne Tiefe u..."
"upv - vielleicht noch, " .. sie würde so erschö..."
"Angenommen, es würde niemals jemand kommen!"
"Angenommen, sie wären samt und sonders ohnmächt..."
"Wohin waren die Mädchen gegangen?"
"Die Minuten vergingen, jede erschien dem unglüc..."
"Es würde bald Hilfe kommen, aber inzwischen war..."
"Anne, die sich verzweifelt an ihren unsicheren ..."
":-) - wie schön und weise von Matthew."
"Einen Moment lang standen sie unbewegt, weiß wi..."
"Es war wahrscheinlich einfach genug im gewaltig..."
"Ich bin zu der Feststellung gelangt, dass es in..."
"Ich denke jetzt nie mehr an mein Haar oder mein..."
"Meine Haare zu färben heilte mich von der Eitel..."
"Vielleicht eher: ... unter der Brücke hindurch ..."
"Ruby, Jane und Diana, die schon an der unteren ..."
"Die Barke trieb unter die Brücke und versank da..."
"Ich sprach sofort ein Dankesgebet und dann verw..."
"Man denkt nicht viel an Romantik, wenn man gera..."
"Es war eine sehr unromantische Lage, aber zu de..."
"Und da war ich nun, Mrs. Allan, an den alten, r..."
"Danke KardaMom - es ist schön eine Bestätigung ..."
"Bei diesem Tempo würde sich der Nachen füllen u..."
"Anne wusste das nicht, aber sie brauchte nicht ..."
"Dieser scharfe Pfahl an der Anlegestelle hatte ..."
"Schon wenige Augenblicke später war es für Elai..."
"Super übersetzt! Winzige Kleinigkeiten noch e..."
"Es verdirbt den Spaß, weil dies Hunderte von Ja..."
"mit schwärzestem Samit bedecken. to pall fin..."
"Wir können keinen alten, stummen Diener haben, ..."
""Gut, ich werde Elaine sein", gab Anne widerwil..."
"Sie waren schon oft so hinabgefahren und nichts..."
"Oops - danke Omega ;-)"
"Der Kahn fing an zu lecken."
"Der Kahn fing an zu lekken."
"Für ein paar Minuten genoss Anne, langsam hinun..."
"Der Kahn wurde demnach abgeschoben und scharrte..."
"Wir müssen den Kahn in seiner ganzen Länge in s..."
"Dann passierte etwas, überhaupt nicht romantisch."
"Nun stoß das Boot ab.""
"Du weißt, Elaine 'lag, als ob sie lächelte'."
"Anne, um Himmels Willen, lächele ein bisschen."
""Wir müssen ihre stille Stirn küssen und Diana,..."
""Jetzt ist sie bereit", sagte Jane."
"Eine weiße Lilie war gerade dann nicht verfügba..."
"Ja, sehr schön. Danke kardaMom."
"Seit ich nach Green Gables kam, habe ich ständi..."
""Jedesmal, seit ich nach Green Gables kam" find..."
"Klingt ja auch viel besser."
"Ja, das stimmt. Aber ganz wichtig, immer daran ..."
"Hihi, nein nicht ungeprüft ;-). Bei leo.org gef..."
"didn't belong ist das vielleicht vergangenheit?"
"hast du das ungefragt ungefragt hinzugefügt? ..."
"Wobei man sagen muss, dass sie doch schuldlos a..."
"Ich bin ziemlich sicher, dass du bald bei mir e..."
""Das hoffe ich", sagte Marilla skeptisch."
"Der Linimentkuchen heilte mich von der Nachläss..."
"Die Sache mit der Amethystbrosche heilte mich d..."
"Jedesmal, seit ich nach Green Gables kam, habe ..."
"Gib nicht all deine Romantik auf, Anne," flüste..."
"Gilbert hatte sie "Karottenkopf" genannt und vo..."
""Nun", erklärte Anne, "ich habe heute eine neue..."
""Ich denke, meine Aussichten vernünftiger zu we..."
"Ein ausgiebiges Weinen, dem sie sich in der dan..."
"Ich werde dich nie mehr darum bitten, dass wir ..."
"Danke. Die Marke ist geknackt: Wir haben hier 4..."
"Ihre Abneigung, die für andere und ältere Mensc..."
""Oh ja, ich denke, das werde ich, Marilla", ant..."
"Gilbert sprang mit zorngeröteten Wangen in sein..."
""Wirst du jemals etwas Verstand haben, Anne?""
"Groß war die Bestürzung in den Haushalten der B..."
"Wir sind losgezogen und haben das Boot deines V..."
"Unter solchen Umständen denkt man nicht viel da..."
"Alles, was ich tue, bringt mich oder meine lieb..."
"Ich bin mir sicher, ich wurde unter einem ungl..."
"Ich sagte einfach immer und immer wieder: ' Lie..."
"Es tut mir furchtbar leid, dass ihr so viel Ang..."
"Es war richtig, zu beten, aber ich musste meine..."
"" Und ich möchte das Wort 'romantisch' nie mehr..."
"" Natürlich werde ich es nicht", funkelte Anne ..."
"Sie wissen, die Pfosten sind nur alte Baumstämm..."
""Danach wirst du natürlich mit ihm sprechen.""
"Ich betete, Mrs.Allan, äußerst ernsthaft, aber ..."
"sagte Jane, die endlich genug Luft hatte, sich ..."
""Es war schrecklich beängstigend ", erzählte si..."
"Warum, es ist so romantisch!""
"" Oh, Anne, wie großartig von ihm!"
"" Ich kletterte auf einen der Pfosten", erklärt..."
"Es gab eine Chance - genau eine."
"Anne gab einen keuchenden, kleinen Schrei von s..."
"Und Ruby hat einen hysterischen Anfall-- oh, An..."
""Oh, Anne", keuchte Diana und fiel ihr ordentli..."
"Es war allerdings äußerst schwierig, unter dies..."
"Vorschlag Sie war wirklich sehr angespannt, da..."
"hier würde m. E. eher dennoch als doch passen."
"Dort hatten sie auch niemanden gefunden, da Mar..."
"Ich werde dich nie mehr darum bitten...."
"Hier hatte Ruby Gillis einen hysterischen Anfal..."
"Aber Matthew, der stumm in seiner Ecke gesessen..."
"oder wie wäre es mit zorngeröteten Wangen"
"Vorschlag: Gilbert sprang mit von Wut gefärbten..."
"Sie hatten auf Orchard Slope niemanden gefunden..."
"Auf halber Höhe des Weges traf sie Jane und Dia..."
"Gilbert hatte sie "Katrottenkopf" genannt und v..."
"Diese Szene von vor zwei Jahren blitzte so lebe..."
"Sie war wirklich ziemlich ungeschickt für die R..."
"Aber die Bitterkeit ihrer alten Kränkung ließ i..."
"Insgesamt dachte Anne eher, es würde eine Erlei..."
"Sie wünschte fast, sie hätte Gilbert anders gea..."
"Sie hielt ihren Kopf sehr hoch, aber sie war si..."
"Mit schnellen, trotzigen Schlägen ruderte er da..."
"Es gab keine goldene Bettdecke, aber eine alte ..."
"Und mir ist es auch egal!""
"Jane zeigte sich der Situation gewachsen."
""Ich werde dich nie mehr fragen, wieder Freunde..."
"Es ist dumm, dass Elaine spricht, wenn sie tot ..."
"Ihr Herz machte einen schnellen, sonderbaren kl..."
"Gilbert sprang mit einer wütenden Farbe auf se..."
"Nachdem der alte Schal besorgt worden war, brei..."
"Sie hatte ein ungewöhnliches, neu erwachtes Bew..."
"" Nein", sagte sie kalt, " ich werde nie mit di..."
"Der alte schwarze Schal meiner Mutter wird gena..."
"Aber zuerst müsst ihr die Brüder und der Vater ..."
"Die Mädchen hatten herausgefunden, dass wenn de..."
"Sie würde ihm nie vergeben!"
"Einen Augenblick lang zögerte Anne."
"Ich finde, dein Haar ist jetzt schrecklich hübs..."
"Außerdem ist es so lange her."
"Ich wollte dich nicht ärgern und es sollte nur ..."
"... Diese Zeiten, sagte sie, waren viel romanti..."
"Es tut mir schrecklich leid, dass ich mich dama..."
"Können wir nicht gute Freunde sein?"
""Anne", sagte er hastig, "schau mal."
"Aber Gilbert war ebenfalls aus dem Boot gesprun..."
"Sie hatten es analysiert und gegliedert und gen..."
""Ich bin dir sehr verpflichtet", sagte sie stol..."
"bei dem "over the bridge" bin ich mir nicht gan..."
"Gilbert ruderte sehr zuvorkommend an Land und A..."
"Wirst du so freundlich sein, mich an Land zu ru..."
"Die Mädchen gingen weg, um Hilfe zu holen."
""Wir spielten Elaine", erklärte Anne kühl, ohne..."
", fragte Gilbert und nahm seine Ruder hoch."
"Glaubt ihr, dass es wirklich richtig ist, so zu..."
""Oh, sie sieht wirklich tot aus", wisperte Ruby..."
""Es macht mir Angst, Mädels."
"vielleicht: zwischen den Baumstümpfen "speedil..."
""Ruby, du solltest nicht über Mrs. Lynde reden"..."
"Mrs. Lynde sagt, dass jedes Theaterspiel furcht..."
"Sie standen am Ufer des Teichs unterhalb von Or..."
"Also hier bin ich - glaube ich - wieder in die ..."
""Manchmal habe ich das auch gedacht -- aber ich..."
""Ich habe nichts dagegen hinunterzutreiben, wen..."
"Dann wird es schon stimmen, die Faustregel kann..."
"Wahrscheinlich ist dir mein Bauchgefühl nicht v..."
"das Problem ist, dass derjenige doch eigentlich..."
"ich halte Aussehen wegen Unit 15 für richtig."
"... dein Gesicht (u.U. dein Teint) ... so viel..."
""Ich habe keine Angst hinunterzutreiben, und ic..."
""Aber es ist so lächerlich, eine rothaarige Ela..."
"Und du weißt, Anne, das würde den Effekt verder..."
""flat" verstehe ich als ein flaches Boot ohne K..."
""Ich habe nicht dagegen hinunterzutreiben, wenn..."
":) oder "mich dort hinunter treiben zu lassen:)"
"Danke Omega; "Nymphaea" ist der botanische Fami..."
"Also, eine rothaarige Person kann kein Lilienmä..."
"rief Anne und errötete zart vor Freude."
"Ruby und Jane verbrachten den Mitsommernachmitt..."
""Ja, und ich denke, es ist wirklich hübsch", sa..."
"@kardaMom: Hast du dazu eine gute, verständlich..."
""Ruby, du musst König Arthur sein und Jane wird..."
"In diesen Tagen, sagte sie, gab es so viel mehr..."
"einmal 'noch' zuviel von heimlicheM Bedauern v..."
"Ja. Es gibt ja die Faustformel *mit Artikel, da..."
""dreizehn, die auf die Vierzehn " ist das gewol..."
"Es war Annes Idee, Elaine aufzuführen."
"Es war herrlich von der Brücke Forellen zu ange..."
"seidige Locken keckes ribbon and bow könnte e..."
"Glaubst du, dass es jetzt goldbraun genannt we..."
"Anne hatte auf den Baumstümpfen gesessen und ge..."
"Omega hat vorher im Text Lilienmädchen angeregt."
"Zwei Tippfehler Bernard: 'DianA' und 'um Mit ih..."
"DAS nur mit einem S!!"
"Wie wäre es mit *fällen*? ... im Frühling gefäl..."
"Anne und Diana hatten den größten Teil ihrer Sp..."
"@bf29010: Schau mal in Unit 16, da habe ich ein..."
"Und Elaine war das Mädchen mit der Lilie."
"Oh jetzt habe ich mal gegoogelt. https://en.m.w..."
"Und Elaine war das Lilienmädchen."
"Und Elaine war das lilienhafte Mädchen."
"Annes Plan wurde begeistert aufgenommen."
"Sie hatten im vorherigen Winter Tennysons Gedic..."
"ich würde statt sensibel eher zart nehmen."
"Idlewild war Vergangenheit, da Mr. Bell unbarmh..."
"Ruby sollte die Elaine sein, weil sie so schön ..."
""ribbon and bow" als "Zopfband"?"
"Aber es ist trotzdem lächerlich."
"sie ist im Boot auf dem Wasser, also lieber tre..."
"lächerlich und ein komma dahinter"
"Ich würde jede Minute oder so hochkommen, um z..."
""Natürlich wäre es romantisch", räumte Jane And..."
"rief Anne und errötete sensibel vor Freude."
"Ich würde wirklich sterben - vor Angst.""
""Oh, denkst du das wirklich?""
""Ich könnte nie den Mut haben, dort hinunter zu..."
"Also, eine rothaarige Person kann kein Nymphen-..."
""Ich habe keine Angst hinunterzuschweben, und i..."
""Aber es ist so lächerliche eine rothaarige Ela..."
"Und du weißt, Anne, dass würde den Effekt verde..."
"Aber mich hinzulegen und so zu tun, als ob ich ..."
""Ich auch nicht", sagte Ruby Gillis schaudernd."
""Natürlich musst du Elaine sein, Anne", sagte D..."
"Oh, do you really think so?" exclaimed Anne, flushing sensitively with delight.
They had studied Tennyson's poem in school the preceding winter, the Superintendent of Education having prescribed it in the English course for the Prince Edward Island schools. They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot.
"It makes me feel frightened, girls. Do you suppose it's really right to act like this?
Jane, you arrange this. It's silly for Elaine to be talking when she's dead."
You know Elaine `lay as though she smiled.' That's better. Now push the flat off."
The flat began to leak. In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
Where had the girls gone? Suppose they had fainted, one and all!
Can't we be good friends? I'm awfully sorry I made fun of your hair that time.
Besides, it's so long ago. I think your hair is awfully pretty now--honest I do.
She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert's hazel eyes was something that was very good to see. Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat.
"All right!" Gilbert sprang into his skiff with an angry color in his cheeks.
"I'll never ask you to be friends again, Anne Shirley. And I don't care either!"
Of course, he had insulted her terribly, but still--! Altogether, Anne rather thought it would be a relief to sit down and have a good cry.
"Oh, Anne, how splendid of him! Why, it's so romantic!" said Jane, finding breath enough for utterance at last.
I'm awfully sorry you were so frightened, girls. It is all my fault. I feel sure I was born under an unlucky star.
The affair of the amethyst brooch cured me of meddling with things that didn't belong to me. The Haunted Wood mistake cured me of letting my imagination run away with me.
I never think about my hair and nose now--at least, very seldom. And today's mistake is going to cure me of being too romantic.


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Fourteen students have been expelled from Choate Rosemary Hall School in Wallingford, Conn., following the arrest of one for allegedly trying to smuggle $300,000 worth of cocaine into the country.
Officials at the prestigious preparatory school--whose list of graduates includes John F. Kennedy and Adlai E. Stevenson--are saying little about the expulsions.
What is being revealed is that two students, "while under the jurisdiction of their parents," flew to Caracas, Venezuela, last month. Upon their return, school officials say, the students "were stopped, questioned, and searched. Cocaine was found in the luggage of one of the students."
That student, Derek Oatis, was arrested on April 23 and charged in connection with illegal possession of cocaine said to be worth $300,000.
A spokesperson for the Queens County District Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the case, said the student's next court appearance is May 17.
Following the incident at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, school officials launched their own investigation and found that 12 students were also "involved in the matter," said Janet Muller Benway, publications editor at Choate Rosemary Hall School. They have been dismissed, she said.
She would not say why or when they were expelled from the school.
"To give additional information now could only further hurt the young people and their families, who have already been hurt enough," she said.
Law enforcement officials say the student and a classmate were stopped by U.S. Customs officials for a random check when the drugs were found.
"We call it a 'cold hit,"' said Michael C. Kaufman, regional public affairs director of the U.S. Customs Service in New York. "It's an expression we use when we catch somebody without any prior information. There was no intelligence involved. Nobody called with any information to watch out for this guy."
Mr. Kaufman said customs agents found about three-quarters of a pound of cocaine, which he said is worth up to $300,000 on the street in packets in the student's pockets and luggage.


By Sheryl P. Simons | This year marks the 125th anniversary of the first African American to graduate from the University—Dr. James M. Brister D1881. That milestone will be celebrated throughout 2006 with events commemorating Brister and the enormous contributions of people of color to the Penn alumni legacy. The Penn Alumni Diversity Alliance, the James M. Brister Society, and the Black Alumni Society will be presenting panel discussions and other programs examining topics such as economic inclusion and access to education for people of color and a historical look at efforts to broaden Penn's "family tree" to include groups traditionally under-represented because of gender, race/ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
The BAS is sponsoring "Honoring Legends: Celebrating 125 Years of African American Excellence and Achievement," which kicks off with a reception on January 26. These "legends" include individuals whose academic and professional achievements have enriched the nation and the world; their story is also one of strong family ties and generational commitments to Penn.
Many alumni have become reacquainted with the extraordinary life of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Ed'18 G'19 Gr'21 L'27 Hon'74 through the naming of the University-assisted Penn Alexander School in West Philadelphia in her honor. But there is much more to her family's story.
"First" family: Aaron and Eliza Bowers Mossell with five of their children, Mary, Alvaretta, Charles, Aaron Albert, Penn's first African-American law school graduate, and Nathan Francis, the first African American to graduate from the medical school.
It was in November 1923 that Sadie Tanner Mossell wedded fellow alumnus Raymond Pace Alexander W'20. Alexander had recently passed the Pennsylvania bar after graduating from Harvard Law School. Sadie T.M. Alexander would be the first African-American woman to graduate from Penn Law School in 1927 and would join her husband's law practice, where the two of them would help chart a pivotal course in Pennsylvania's and America's civil-rights history.
As a city councilman after World War II, Alexander would challenge the use of buffoonery and blackface makeup during the annual Philadelphia Mummers Parade on New Year's Day; a resolution prohibiting such "degradation" passed in March 1954. Before the civil-rights marches and public protests of the 1960s, the legal work of the Alexander firm laid the foundation for breaking the will of the Stephen Girard Estate to allow youth of all races, and not just "poor male white orphan children," to attend Philadelphia's Girard College charity school.
Sadie Alexander's father, Aaron Albert Mossell L1888, was the first African-American law school graduate, and her uncle, Nathan Francis Mossell M1882, was the first to graduate from the medical school. The Alexanders had two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Rae Alexander-Minter GrEd'81, the latter of whom went on to receive her doctorate from Penn in 1981.
long efforts to memorialize February 1—the date in 1865 when Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment ending slavery—were answered in 1948, the year after his death, when President Truman signed a bill declaring it National Freedom Day.
Richard Robert Wright Jr. and Ruth Wright Hayre, Penn's first African-American father and daughter Ph.D.s.
A major in the Spanish-American War (and the first African American to serve as Army Paymaster), Wright had already had a long career in education and politics when he decided to open a bank in Philadelphia. In preparation for this new venture—at age 67—he enrolled in the Wharton School. The Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company opened at 1849 South Street in 1921. At the time, it was the only black bank in the North. When it was sold in 1957, Citizens and Southern had assets worth $5.5 million.
as the first father and daughter to graduate from Penn's Law School.
Dr. Ruth Wright Hayre would go on to become the first African American to teach full-time in the Philadelphia public-school system and to serve as a senior high-school principal, as well as the first female president of the Philadelphia Board of Education. Among a number of charitable efforts, when she was 80 she established the "Tell Them We Are Rising" program. In it, she promised to pay college tuition for 116 sixth-graders in two poor North Philadelphia schools if they completed high school, which she wrote about in Tell Them We Are Rising: A Memoir of Faith in Education, published in 1997, the year before she died.
Another early alumnus who left an indelible mark on Penn's campus and the city of Philadelphia is Julian Abele Ar1902, the first African American to graduate from the Department of Architecture and president of the Architectural Society in 1902, whose work includes Irvine Auditorium and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Abele's early renderings came to the attention of Horace Trumbauer, a builder of French-style mansions, who reportedly financed his studies overseas with the promise of work when he returned to Philadelphia; Abele was chief designer for the firm for many years starting in 1909 and until Trumbauer's death in 1938. With a nod to the times, it was understood that Abele would remain inside the shop and out of the spotlight; only much later did he receive the credit due for his inspired design work.
Julian Abele Ar1902, seated in center front row, was the first African-American architecture graduate at Penn.
Though Trumbauer's was the only name ever to appear on the firm's work, during Abele's years as chief designer projects included Harvard's Widener Library, the Doris Duke mansion in Newport, R.I., the Duke Mansion in New York, NYU's Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, and Duke University's chapel in North Carolina. Closer to home were designs for the Philadelphia Free Library main branch and the Family Court buildings on Vine Street, as well as Irvine and the Art Museum.
These and many other "trailblazing accomplishments" will be recognized over the course of the year-long "Legends" celebration, says Christopher Sample WEv'03, who chairs the BAS special events committee for the Brister 125th Anniversary, which will feature community outreach as well as symposiums and guest lectures. For example, guests at the Penn Relays BBQ and Volunteer Rally in April will be asked to register for a BAS or community-based service activity. "And there are scholarship and endowment targets we hope to benefit, as well," he adds.
Sheryl P. Simons WG'77 is a member of the 125th Anniversary Steering Committee. She wishes to dedicate this article to Mrs. Elaine D. Simons, an English master's scholar at Bennett Hall, and her father, Mr. William H. Simons, who attended Wharton Executive Education.


The TIFF format is one of most widely used graphics file formats. The main concentration of the application for this format is its ability to archive documents and images due to its lossless compression features, ability to save images in different color spaces, as well as its capability to store detailed satellite metadata. Here, data archiving is the ability to preserve accessibility to information. In fact, your documents should open even after years of storage. Providing this support is very easy through the uniform format specification. The main goal of this research was to determine how well the popular image viewers and converters support the TIFF format.
Ultimately, the research revealed that the most complete support for the TIFF format was provided by Image Converter Plus (69.13%) followed by XnView (55.55%).


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Are you behind on your dental visits, and now you're being driven in by a toothache, other dental problems, or guilt?
If so, be prepared — not for a lecture from your dentist — but for discovering that there is a host of new options to keep teeth healthy and beautiful.
Here are some of the newer dental care procedures and techniques that leading dentists are bringing into their practices.
In some dental offices, digitized X-rays (think digital camera) are replacing traditional radiographs. Although digital X-rays have been on the market for several years, they have recently become more popular with dentists.
Digital X-rays are faster and more efficient than traditional radiographs. First, an electronic sensor or phosphor plate (instead of film) is placed in the patient's mouth to capture the image. The digital image is then relayed or scanned to a computer, where it is available for viewing. The procedure is much faster than processing conventional film.
Your dentist can also store digital images on the computer and compare them with previous or future images to see how your dental health is being maintained.
And because the sensor and phosphor plates are more sensitive to X-rays than film is, the radiation dose is reduced.
Digital X-rays have many uses besides finding cavities. They also help look at the bone below the teeth to determine if the bone level of support is good. Dentists can use the X-rays to check the placement of an implant — a titanium screw-like device that is inserted into the jawbone so that an artificial tooth can be attached.
Digital X-rays also help endodontists — dentists who specialize in root canals — to see if they have thoroughly cleaned the canal during the procedure.
Traditionally, dentists use an instrument they call the "explorer" to find cavities. That's the instrument they poke around with in your mouth during a checkup. When it "sticks" in a tooth, they look closer to see if they find decay.
Many dentists are now switching to the diode laser, a higher-tech option for detecting and removing cavities. The laser helps to identify pockets of bacteria inside the tooth, producing a digital readout of the level of bacteria. The dentist can then choose to watch the tooth, comparing the levels at the next visit, or advise that the cavity be removed and the tooth filled.
When healthy teeth are exposed to the wavelength of the diode laser, they don't glow or fluoresce, so the reading on the digital display is low. But decayed teeth glow in proportion to the amount of decay, resulting in higher readings on the display.
The diode laser doesn't always work with teeth that already have fillings, but for other teeth, it could mean earlier detection of cavities.
One drawback to the diode laser: It tends to show more "false positives," indicating a cavity when there isn't one.


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Q: Select font when converting .txt to .pdf from command line I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the "standard Unix" fonts. I'm particularly interested in the AmericanTypewriter font. Is there an existing tool to do that or perhaps an Apple Script? If not, are there any other ideas?

A: The solution is to create an afm version of the font you want to use which is American-typewriter for the enscript program to create with.
What you need to do is grab a copy of the  AmericanTypewriter font. Which is located at /Library/Fonts/AmericanTypewriter.ttc
Next obtain and run the program ttf2pt1.  Copy the output file that you can name atw.afm to enscript's afm directory located at /usr/share/enscript/afm.
Edit the "font.map" file located in /usr/share/enscript/afm
Add in the AmericanTypewriter font to the list.
AmericanTypewriter         atw
AvantGarde-Demi            agd
...                        ...

Lastly re-run the enscript and choose the new font, process as you would normally after that but now including the AmericanTypewriter font.
enscript -f "AmericanTypewriter12" -p postScriptOutputfile yourFile.txt

A: If you have some basic LaTeX knowledge (and a working LaTeX installation), I strongly recommend you to take a look at Fletcher Penney's Multimarkdown, an extended Markdown interpreter, which has a great customizable feature of converting text files to .tex –from there, it's obviously a short step to a beautiful .pdf document formatted in accordance with your needs.
Check Chapter 5 of the Multimarkdown manual on how to customize LaTeX output – you will need to install both Multimarkdown (installer) and the support files.
Then, nothing prevents you from using XeTeX instead of LaTeX, which will allow you to use the fontspec package to select any font installed on your system. I haven't actually tried, but it should be fairly easy to create a simple custom LaTeX template for Multimarkdown (without the Author & Title information and all that) to produce PDF output in the font of your choice.

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The Act Team undertook a new activity in conjunction with its Memory Café. Beginning January, Café participants help Erie's homeless veterans by processing donated household items. Now at Erie's Liberty House for a limited stay, these veterans will transition to their own apartments as those become available. To help supply the veterans' new quarters, with help from our congregational members and friends, the Act Team will collect used or new house-hold items such as sponges, can openers, spatulas, dishes, table ware, pots, pans, cleaning products etc. Participants and staff in the Memory Cafe will stuff bags or boxes of these items for distribution and make accompanying cards because we have learned that they still seek a way to help others.


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Q: Override `this` to `window` for an import in vite I'm using an old version of a dependency that uses this to refer to window. It attaches a variable to the window like this: this.variable = variable
Running yarn vite, I get this in the browser:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set properties of undefined (setting 'variable')

Is there a way in Vite for this to be set to window so I can use this kind of dependency in my project?


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Britain Faces Europe
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
Transformations of thought among British foreign policy makers since World War II have motivated this new study. For the first time in its history, during the postwar decade, Britain began to abandon its worldpower outlook and to turn toward a European consensus, substituting regional interests for its global perspective.
The author asks: How does a people so attuned to worldwide interests and commitments reconcile itself to such drastically altered circumstances as those that followed World War II? How does a people that has historically viewed with hostility the unification of continental Europe develop as a top foreign priority participation in the European integration movement? The book focuses on the response of the British Government to changing international and domestic forces, including elite groups at home.
Britain Faces Europe is the first book to examine both the development of British policy and the evolution of attitudes in the British private sector toward European integration between 1957 and 1967.
Drawing on public documents and interviews, the author traces the movement of British policy toward a more European outlook. Investigating publications of interest groups such as the National Farmers Union, the Trades Union Congress, the Confederation of British Industry, and such Europe-oriented groups as Federal Union and the United Kingdom Council for Europe, the author traces the development of support for Common Market membership in the private sector. Developing attitudes in representative British newspapers and journals and those of parliamentary parties art described. Publications and statements of "anti-European organizations and public opinion polls are also examined.
Important elements of the study for all students and observers of world affairs are its examination of British expectations from European integration and its assessment of the British Common Market case from propositions about integration drawn from theoretically-oriented literature.
The book is an innovation in approach in that other studies have focused almost exclusively on descriptions of official policy without major reference to either the private sector or theories of integration at the international level.
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. is President of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc., which he cofounded in 1976. He is also Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. His other books are Politics and the International System and The Atlantic Community: A Complex Imbalance.

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Anyone else have this issue on a clean install of the latest build of Windows 10?
Clicking on "Yes, I trust this publisher and want to run this app" does nothing and the app never gets market as trusted, hence Anti-Malware can't update.
What version of Endpoint Security?
What build of Windows 10?
It's Endpoint E80.90.5592 and Windows 10 version 1809.
SmartScreen is disabled. No other AV to effect.
I'm thinking a TAC case might be in order (for this and the other issue you've started a thread on).
I would recommend upgrade to Endpoint Security Client E80.90. I think this is supporting Feauture update for Windows 10 ver 1809.


text: Q: Not able to proceed with cq launcher I have created a launcher which invokes a workflow on creation of an asset of type dam:asset but when I am trying to run the workflow in Publish instance, replicating image from author the workflow is not getting invoked am I doing something wrong? is there a workaround?


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Samsung engineers are working on a foldable smartphone in two places
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The collection of foldable smartphones Samsung in the near future is expected to add to the Z Fold and Z Flip, folding in two places, a new type of foldable device.
Judging by the information published by Nikkei Asia, the novelty will fold into three parts, using two hinges and will get an aspect ratio of 18 by 9 or 16 by 9. It is reported that the South Korean manufacturer has repeatedly registered patents related to the work of such a device, and therefore we can safely conclude that its release is not far off.
However, the release of the smartphone may be complicated by a shortage of processors. The company has already noted that it is postponing the release of the updated Galaxy Note because of this. Given that the smartphone with a folding screen needs a powerful chipset, its release also remains questionable.
The approximate cost of the new product and its possible characteristics are not even called yet.
Sales of POCO X3 Pro and POCO F3 smartphones started
Mate 40 will be announced on October 22
HTC is preparing a smartphone on Snapdragon 855 with 5G
More than half of Americans prefer to play on smartphones rather than consoles and PCs
The first tests of the new ASUS smartphone on the flagship chip Snapdragon 888 appeared
8848 introduced a luxury smartphone with the unannounced Snapdragon 865
Galaxy S10 will support 5G networks
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Hundreds of paramedics from the East of England Ambulance Service are regularly working long past their shifts with morale at "rock bottom", according to a trade union.
UNISON surveyed more than 900 frontline staff from the East of England Ambulance Service – with the survey highlighting the impact of deteriorating working conditions on mental health.
The survey also highlighted hundreds of staff are now regularly working 14 and 15-hour shifts; some staff had even worked 18 or 19-hour shifts.
UNISON wrote to the East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) chief executive in September 2017, after written commitments made in April 2017 to bring in specific measures to reduce enforced overtime were not honoured.
Fraer Stevenson, UNISON branch secretary, said: "Staff have spoken to us about the impact of the removal of supportive measures in October. They say this has made things much worse.
"Morale is rock bottom, sickness relating to mental health - the number one reason for sickness - reached a record high in December.
Mr Stevenson claimed the trust has said it was going to do more for staff to reduce late finishes, whilst doing the opposite.
He said recent meetings with the trust over this issue have been cancelled with less than 24 hours' notice, and at one meeting in a director's office, the director simply did not turn up.
Mr Stevenson added: "Inaction is costing the East of England Ambulance Trust and the communities it serves valuable and experienced frontline staff.
"Being very late off duty is one of the biggest issues"
Kevin Brown, director of service delivery at EEAST, said the wellbeing of staff is of "paramount importance".
He said: "We know and recognise being very late off duty is one of the biggest issues that face our frontline staff.
"We have tried, in partnership with UNISON locally, to find solutions and have trialled a number of initiatives over the past 18 months but these have not achieved the desired outcomes.
"Ultimately we know both the underlying issue and the solution sits in having an increased level of ambulances and staffing - and this comes with more funding.
"We know that this is a national issue across the ambulance sector and we are pleased that our regulators have delivered a review of our capacity and made recommendations for increased resourcing.
"We will now work with commissioners to translate those recommendations into more staff to relieve the pressure on our workforce and provide the best care to patients.
"In the meantime we have in place staff groups with whom we are working closely to find better ways that balance getting people home on time more often, with the safety of patients.
"They recognise how difficult this is to balance. We will continue to work with staff and UNISON to explore a sustainable solution that ensures we address this issue and keeps our patients safe.


Marvel used their movies to build up to the big confrontation in Avengers Infinity War. They teased Thanos here and there throughout their other movies so that when he made his big appearance in Infinity War, most people already knew all about him and what a big threat he is.
We are hoping that Marvel starts building up to another of their epic stories after the Thanos situation is resolved in Avengers Infinity War part 2. They have plenty of great line wide story arcs that would translate nicely to the big screen. Another thing we are hoping for is to start seeing more crossover between the movies and TV shows. Cross your fingers!


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Vol 7 (2019): Auditory Learning in Biological and Artificial Systems /
2019/3. Machine listening and intelligent auditory signal processing
Computational investigation of visually guided learning of spatially aligned auditory maps in the colliculus
Timo Oess Applied Cognitive Psychology, Ulm University, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
Marc O. Ernst Applied Cognitive Psychology, Ulm University, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
Heiko Neumann Institute of Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
Keywords: Auditory Space Map, Learning, Hebb, Map Alignment, Barn Owl, Modelling, Inferior Colliculus
The development of spatially registered auditory maps in the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus in young owls and their maintenance in adult animals is visually guided and evolves dynamically. To investigate the underlying neural mechanisms of this process, we developed a model of stabilized neoHebbian correlative learning which is augmented by an eligibility signal and a temporal trace of activations. This 3-component learning algorithm facilitates stable, yet flexible, formation of spatially registered auditory space maps composed of conductance-based topographically organized neu- ral units. Spatially aligned maps are learned for visual and auditory input stimuli that arrive in temporal and spatial registration. The reliability of visual sensory inputs can be used to regulate the learning rate in the form of an eligibility trace. We show that by shifting visual sensory inputs at the onset of learning the topography of auditory space maps is shifted accordingly. Simulation results explain why a shift of auditory maps in mature animals is possible only if corrections are induced in small steps. We conclude that learning spatially aligned auditory maps is flexibly controlled by reliable visual sensory neurons and can be formalized by a biological plausible unsupervised learning mechanism.
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