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Kilmeny of the Orchardis a novel by Canadian writerMontgomery, narrates the love of a mute girl and a teacher. Eric Marshall, a new teacher at Prince Edward Island, falls in love with Kilmeny, a pianist who does not have the ability to speak. Though Kilmeny loves him, she refuses to marry as her disability will only ruin his life. She starts speaking in a situation, where she has to save Eric from a near death.
KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD
By L. M. MONTGOMERY
Author of “Anne’s House of Dreams,” “Rainbow Valley,"
“Rilla of Ingleside,” etc.
TO MY COUSIN
Beatrice A. McIntyre
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
“Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace,
But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny’s face;
As still was her look, and as still was her ee,
A
s the stillness that lay on the emerant lea,
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Such beauty bard may never declare,
Fo
r there was no pride nor passion there;
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Her seymar was the lily flower,
And her cheek the moss-rose in the shower;
And her voi
ce like the distant melodye
That floats along the twilight sea.”
— The Queen’s Wake
JAMES HOGG
KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD By L. M. MONTGOMERY Author of “Anne’s House of Dreams,” “Rainbow Valley," “Rilla of Ingleside,” etc. TO MY COUSIN Beatrice A. McIntyre THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DED…
The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples…
Eric, finding that his father had not yet returned from the college, went into the library and sat down to read a letter he had picked up from the hall table. It was from Larry West, and after the fir…
One evening, a month later, Eric Marshall came out of the old, white-washed schoolhouse at Lindsay, and locked the door—which was carved over with initials innumerable, and built of double plank in or…
The Williamson place, where Eric boarded, was on the crest of the succeeding hill. He liked it as well as Larry West had prophesied that he would. The Williamsons, as well as the rest of the Lindsay p…
Shortly before sunset that evening Eric went for a walk. When he did not go to the shore he liked to indulge in long tramps through the Lindsay fields and woods, in the mellowness of “the sweet ‘o the…
Wednesday evening Eric went to the orchard again; and again he was disappointed. He went home, determined to solve the mystery by open inquiry. Fortune favoured him, for he found Mrs. Williamson alone…
When he emerged from the spruce wood and entered the orchard his heart gave a sudden leap, and he felt that the blood rushed madly to his face. She was there, bending over the bed of June lilies in th…
When Eric went to the old Connors orchard the next evening he found Kilmeny waiting for him on the bench under the white lilac tree, with the violin in her lap. As soon as she saw him she caught it up…
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