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 Engineering
Mathematics I
 About the Author

T Veerarajan retired as Dean, Department of Mathematics,

Velammal College of Engineering and Technology,
Viraganoor, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. A gold medalist from
Madras University, he has had a brilliant academic career
all through. He has 50 years of teaching experience at
undergraduate and postgraduate levels in various established
engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu including Anna
University, Chennai.
 Engineering
Mathematics I

T Veerarajan
Former Dean, Department of Mathematics
Velammal College of Engineering and Technology
Viraganoor, Madurai
Tamil Nadu

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 Contents
Preface ix

Unit 1. Differential CalCUlUs 1.1–1.61

1.1 Functions 1.1

1.2 Limit of a Function 1.2
1.3 Continuity of a Function 1.5
1.4 Differentiability of a Function 1.5
Worked Example 1(a) 1.7
Exercise 1(a) 1.15
1.5 Derivatives 1.18
1.6 Rules of Differentiation 1.23
1.7 Derivatives of Hyperbolic Function 1.26
1.8 Methods of Differentiation 1.29
Worked Example 1(b) 1.30
Exercise 1(b) 1.44
1.9 Maxima and Minima of Functions of One Variable 1.46
Worked Example 1(c) 1.48
Exercise 1(c) 1.57
Answers 1.58

Unit 2. fUnCtions of several variables 2.1–2.69

2.1 Introduction 2.1

2.2 Total Differentiation 2.1
Worked Example 2(a) 2.4
Exercise 2(a) 2.20
2.3 Jacobians 2.27
2.4 Differentiation Under the Integral Sign 2.31
Worked Example 2(b) 2.33
Exercise 2(b) 2.48
2.5 Maxima and Minima of Functions of Two Variables 2.50
Worked Example 2(c) 2.52
Exercise 2(c) 2.65
Answers 2.67
vi Contents

Unit 3. integral CalCUlUs 3.1–3.53

3.1 Introduction 3.1

3.2 Constant of Integration 3.1
3.3 Techniques of Integration 3.4
Worked Example 3(a) 3.6
Exercise 3(a) 3.13
3.4 Integration of Rational (Algebraic) Functions 3.14
Worked Example 3(b) 3.15
Exercise 3(b) 3.25
3.5 Integration of Irrational Functions 3.26
Worked Example 3(c) 3.27
Exercise 3(c) 3.35
3.6 Integration by Parts 3.36
Worked Example 3(d) 3.39
Exercise 3(d) 3.48
Answers 3.50

Unit 4. MUltiple integrals 4.1–4.83

4.1 Introduction 4.1

4.2 Evaluation of Double and Triple Integrals 4.1
4.3 Region of Integration 4.2
Worked Example 4(a) 4.3
Exercise 4(a) 4.15
4.4 Change of Order of Integration in a Double Integral 4.17
4.5 Plane Area as Double Integral 4.18
Worked Example 4(b) 4.21
Exercise 4(b) 4.38
4.6 Line Integral 4.41
4.7 Surface Integral 4.43
4.8 Volume Integral 4.44
Worked Example 4(c) 4.45
Exercise 4(c) 4.57
4.9 Gamma and Beta Functions 4.59
Worked Example 4(d) 4.63
Exercise 4(d) 4.77
Answers 4.79
 Contents vii

Unit 5. Differential eqUations 5.1–5.88

5.1 Equations of the First Order and Higher Degree 5.1

Worked Example 5(a) 5.3
Exercise 5(a) 5.12
5.2 Linear Differential Equations of Second and
Higher Order with Constant Coefficients 5.14
5.3 Complementary Function 5.14
Worked Example 5(b) 5.19
Exercise 5(b) 5.32
5.4 Euler’s Homogeneous Linear Differential Equations 5.33
5.5 Simultaneous Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients 5.35
Worked Example 5(c) 5.35
Exercise 5(c) 5.47
5.6 Linear Equations of Second Order with Variable Coefficients 5.48
Worked Example 5(d) 5.53
Exercise 5(d) 5.67
5.7 Method of Variation of Parameters 5.71
Worked Example 5(e) 5.73
Exercise 5(e) 5.82
Answers 5.82
 Preface

I am deeply gratified with the enthusiastic response shown to all my books on

Engineering Mathematics (for first year courses) by students and teachers throughout
the country.
This book has been designed to meet the requirements of the students of first-year
undergraduate course on Engineering Mathematics. The contents have been covered
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style supported with step-by-step solutions to all problems enhances understanding
of the concepts. The book has ample number of solved and unsolved problems of
different types to help students and teachers learning and teaching the subject.
I hope that this book will be received by both the faculty and the students as
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 UNIT 1
Differential Calculus

1.1 FUNcTIoNs
Students are familiar, to some extent, with the concept of relation. A relation can
be thought of as a relationship of elements of a set to the elements of another set. In
other words, when A and B are sets, a subset R of the cartesian product A × B is called
a relation from A to B viz., If R is a relation from A to B, R is a set of ordered pairs
(a, b) where a ΠA and b Πb.

1.1.1 Definitions
A relation from set X to another set Y is called a function, if for every x ΠX, there is
a unique y ΠY such that (x, y) Πf.
In other words, a function from X to Y is an assignment of exactly one element of
Y to every element of X.
If y is the unique element of Y assigned by the functions f to the element x of X,
we write f(x) = y and say that y is a function of x.
If f is a function from X to Y, we may also represent it as
f
f : X → Y or X  → Y.

Note (i) Sometimes the terms transformations, mapping or correspondence are

also used in the place of function.
(ii) If y = f(x), then x is called an argument or preimage and y is called the
image of x under f or the value of the function f at x.
(iii) X is the domain of f denoted by Df and Y is called the codomain of f
(iv) The set of the images of all elements of X is called the range of X
denoted Rf ncY Rf ≤ y.
(v) x is called the independent variable and y the dependent variable,
if y = f(x).

1.1.2 Representation of Functions

(1) A function can be represented or expressed by means of a mathematical rule
of formula, such as y = x3[≡ f(x)] or
(2) it can be represented pictorially by means of two closed circles or two closed
ellipses or any two closed curves. This representation is possible only if Df
consists of finite number of elements. The elements of Df will be represented
by points inside the first closed curve and those of range or co-domain of f by
1.2 Engineering Mathematics I

points inside the second closed curve. The points in Df and the corresponding
Rf will be connected by directed arrows as explained below:
Let Df = (1, 2, 3, 4) and f(1) = b, f(2) = d, f(3) = a and f(4) = b
The pictorial representation is shown as follows:
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 d
Fig. 1.1
Here Df = {1, 2, 3, 4}, Rf = {a, b, d} and co-domain of f = {a, b, c, d}
(3) A continuous function can be represented by means of a (curve) graph. For
example, y = x2[= f(x)] is a continuous function of x;
The values of x2 = [f(x)] for different values of x ΠR lie on a parabola as in the
figure given below: f (x)
Note (i) The curve y = x2 drawn here is a one-piece
without any break.
(ii) Discontinues functions can also be
x
represented graphically but with a break in the O
neighbourhood of the point of discontinuity. Fig. 1.2
 x + 1, in(−1, 0)

For example, f ( x) =  is a discontinues function, with the point

 x − 1, in(0, 1)

x = 0 as a point of discontinuity. The graph of y = f(x) consists of two line segments
with a break near the origin as shown in the figure below:
y
1
+
x
=
y

x
–1
1
x–
y=

Fig. 1.3

Note Detailed discussion of continuous functions will be done later.

1.2 LImIT oF a FUNcTIoN

x2 − 4
Let us consider the function y = f ( x) = . The value of f(x) can not be found
x−2
out at x = 2 by direct substitution though the values of f(x) can be found out for all
other values of x, however close they may be to 2.
 Differential Calculus 1.3

As may be verified, f(x) assume the values 3.9, 3.99, 3.999, 3.9999, etc. as x take
the values 1.9, 1.99, 1.999, 1.9999, etc.
Similarly f(x) assume the value 4.1, 4.01, 4.001, 4.0001, etc. as x takes the value
2.1, 2.01, 2.001, 2.0001, etc.
0
But if we put x = 2 in the definition of f(x), we get y = , which is meaningless
and usually referred to as an indeterminate form. 0
The definition of limit of a function f(x) does not require that the function f(x) be
defined at x = 2.
From the above example, we note that to make the difference between f(x) and 4
as small as possible, we have to make the difference between x and 2 correspondingly
 x 2 − 4 
small. This fact is symbolically put as lim   = 4
x→2  x − 2 
( x − 2)( x + 2)
Note For all value of x ≠ 2, f ( x) =
x−2
=x+2
\ lim [ f ( x)] = 4
xÆ2
The formal definition of the limit of a function is given below:
lim [ f ( x)] = l , if and only if for any arbitrarily small positive number Œ, there
xÆa
exists another small positive number d, such that
f ( x) - l < Œ, whenever 0 < x - a < d .

Note When x Æ a through values greater than a, we say that x approaches a

from the right (or from above) and write lim { f ( x)} = l. This is called the right
x→a+

hand limit. Similarly when x Æ a through values less than a (or from below), we
obtain the left hand limit and write xlim { f ( x)} = l.
→ a−

If lim{ f ( x)} exists and equals l, it implies that both the left hand and right hand
x→a

limits exist and are equal, each equal to l.

1.2.1 Some Fundamental Theorems on Limits (stated without

proof)
If lim[ f ( x)] = l and lim[ g ( x)] = m, then
x→a x→a

(i) lim [ f ( x) ± g ( x)] = l ± m

xÆa

Note This theorem can be extended to the algebraic sum of a finite number of
functions.
viz., lim[c1 f1 ( x) + c2 f 2 ( x) +  ck f k ( x)] = c1 lim[ f1 ( x)] + c2 lim[ f 2 ( x)]
x→a x→a x→a

+  ck lim[ f x ( x)]
x→a
1.4 Engineering Mathematics I

(ii) lim[ f ( x) ⋅ g ( x)] = lm

x→a

 f ( x)  l
(iii) lim   = , provided m π 0.
x → a  g ( x) 
  m

1.2.2 Some Standard Limits

 xn − an 
 
1. lim 
 
 = na , for all rational values of n and a π 0.
n −1
x→a  x − a 

 

Proof: Let x – a = h. since x Æ a, h Æ 0
 xn − an  
 ( a + h) n − a n  
lim   = lim 
 

x→a  x − a  h→0 
 h 

   
  n 
 a n 1 + h  − a n 
  a  
= lim   (1)
h→0  h 

Since x can approach a from the left or right,
h
h = x − a → 0 and hence <1
a
Using this fact and binomial theorem for a rational index in (1), we have
   n h  n h 2 n h r  
 an 
1 + 
 
  
 + 
 
  
 +    +  − a n 
 xn − an        
 1 a   2 a 
   
 r  a   
lim   = lim     

x→a  x − a  h→0  h 
  
n  n  n 
= lim   a n − 1 +   a n − 2 h +  +   a n − r h r − 1 + 
h→0      
1  2 r  
n −1
= na
 sin θ  π
2. lim   = 1, where q is measured in radians and < .
θ→0  θ   2
Proof:
C
B

q
A¢ A
O

Fig. 1.4

Consider a circle with centre at 0 and radius r = (= OA= OB)

 Differential Calculus 1.5

Let –AOB = q radians and let the tangent at A meet OB produced at C,

1
Area of the ∆OAC = OA ⋅ AC
2
1  AC 
= r ⋅ r tan θ ∵ = tan θ from the right angled ∆OAC 
2  OA 
1 2
= r tan θ
2
1
Area of the ∆OAB = OA ⋅ OB ⋅ sin ∠AOB
2
1 2
= r sin θ
2
1 2
Area of the sector OAB = r θ.
2
Obviously, Area of the DOAB < Area of the sector OAB < Area of DAOC.
1 2 1 1
viz., r sin θ < r 2θ < r 2 tan θ
2 2 2
viz., sin θ < θ < tan θ
θ 1
viz. 1< <
sin θ cos θ
sin θ
or 1> > cos θ (considering the reciprocate)
θ
 sin θ 
Taking limits as θ → 0, lim(1) ≥ lim   ≥ lim(cos θ )
θ→0 θ→0  θ  θ → 0

viz.,  sin θ   sin θ 

1 ≥ lim   ≥ 1 or lim   = 1.
θ→0  θ  θ→0  θ  

 tan θ   tan θ   sin θ  1 

Cor: lim   = 1, since lim   = lim    = 1×1 = 1
θ→0  θ   θ→0  θ   θ → 0  θ  cos θ 
x
 1
3. lim 1 +  = e, which is the Naperian logarithmic base defined as
x→∞  x
1 1 1
1+ + + +  ∞ = 2.71828
1! 2 ! 3!

Proof:
x
Expanding ÊÁ1 + ˆ˜ by Binomial theorem, we have
1
Ë x¯
1.6 Engineering Mathematics I

x
 
1 + 1  = 1 + x ⋅ 1 + x( x − 1) ⋅ 1 + x( x − 1)( x − 2) ⋅ 1 + 
 x  x 2! x2 3! x3
1 1 1  1  2
= 1 + 1 + 1 −  + 1 − 1 −  + 
2! x  3!  x  x
x
 1 1 1 1
lim 1 +  = 2 + + +  + + 
x→∞ x  2 ! 3! n!
=e

Note Obviously, e > 2.

1 1 1
Also e<2+ + + +
2 2⋅2 2⋅2⋅2


 1 1
2
1
3 
viz., e < 1 + 1 + +   +   + 


 2  2  2 

1  
viz., e <1 + ∵ a + ar + ar 2 +  ∞ = a 
1 
1−  1 − r 
2
viz., e<3
Hence, 2<e<3
Cor (1): lim(1 + x)1/ x = e
x→0

1
Putting = y in result(3), we see that y Æ 0 as x Æ •
x
\ lim(1 + y )1/ y = e
y→0

Replacing y by x, the corollary follows:

 e x − 1
Cor (2): lim  =1
x→0 x 
[(1 + x)1/ x ]x − 1  x
L. S. = lim = lim   = 1.
x→0 x x→0 x 

 e mx − 1  e mx − 1  e y − 1 
Cor (3): lim   = m, as lim   = lim  × m = m
x→0 x  x→0 x  y → 0  y 
a a
x  x  x

Cor (4):  a   a a   a a 

lim 1 +  = lim 1 +   = xlim 1 +   =e
a
x→∞ x x → ∞ 
 x   → ∞  x  
a

 a x − 1 
 a x − 1  e x log a − 1
Cor (5): lim   = log ea , since lim 
  = lim   = log ea ,
x→0 
x→0 x   x  x → 0 
 x 
by cor. (3)
 Differential Calculus 1.7

1.3 coNTINUITy oF a FUNcTIoN

A function f(x) is said to be continuous at x = a, if
(i) f(a) exists and is equal to l and
(ii) lim [ f ( x)] exists and is equal to l, viz., lim { f ( x)} = lim { f ( x)} = l
xÆa xÆa - xÆa +
[viz., the left hand and the right hand limits exist and are equal]

Note (1) If the graph of y = f(x) is a continuous curve in an interval, the function
is said to be continuous in that interval.
If the graph of y = f(x) has a break at a point x = a, the function is
said to be discontinuous at x = a. The point itself is called a point of
discontinuity of f(x).
(2) When a function f(x) is continuous at every point in the interval
a < x < b, f(x) is said to be continuous in that interval.
(3) If a function f(x) is continuous at a point x = a, a small change in the
value of x will produce only a small change in the value of y = f(x).
For example, let y = x2 and let x be given a small change Dx. Let Dy be
the corresponding change in y.
Then Dy = (x + Dx)2 – y = 2x Dx + (Dx)2, which tends to 0 as Dx Æ 0.
(4) When a continuous function changes from one values to another, it
will pass at least once through every intermediate value
(5) A continuous function cannot change sign (either from +ve to –ve or
–ve to +ve) without passing through the value 0.

1.4 DIFFereNTIabILITy oF a FUNcTIoN

 f ( x0 + ∆x) − f ( x0 ) 
Let f ′( x0 +) = lim   and
∆x → 0  ∆x 

 f ( x0 − ∆x) − f ( x0 ) 
f ′( x0 −) = lim   . If f ′( x0 +) = f ′( x0 −), then
∆x → 0  −∆x 

f(x) is said to be differentiable at x = x0 and the common value is denoted by f¢(x0)

Note (1) If the two limits exist but are unequal or if neither of them exists, then
f(x) is not differentiable at x = x0.
(2) If a function is differentiable at a point, it follows from the definition
that it is continuous at that point, but a function which is continuous at
a point need not be differentiable at that point.

WorkeD exampLes 1(a)

Example 1.1 If f(x) = x4 – 3x2 + 2, show that f ( x + 1) − 2 f ( x ) + f ( x − 1) is

a constant.
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230 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS and leave her — but not

to have loved her is unthinkable. I suppose all this sounds very crazy
— all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put
them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken
— only felt and endured. I shouldn't have spoken — but it has
helped — some. At least, it has given me strength to go away
respectably to-morrow morning, without making a scene. You'll write
me now and then, won't you, Mrs. Blythe, and give me what news
there is to give of her?" "Yes," said Anne. "Oh, I'm so sorry you are
going — we'll miss you so — we've all been such friends ! If it were
not for this you could come back other summers. Perhaps, even yet
— by-and-by — when you've forgotten, perhaps — " "I shall never
forget — and I shall never come back to Four Winds," said Owen
briefly. Silence and twilight fell over the garden. Far away the sea
was lapping gently and monotonously on the bar. The wind of
evening in the poplars sounded like some sad, weird, old rune —
some broken dream of old memories. A slender shapely young
aspen rose up before them against the fine maize and emerald and
paling rose of the western sky, which brought out every leaf and
twig in dark, tremulous, elfin loveliness. "Isn't that beautiful?" said
Owen, pointing to it with the air of a man who puts a certain
conversation behind him.
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OWEN FORD'S CONFESSION 231 "It's so beautiful that it

hurts me." said Anne softly. "Perfect things like that alway did hurt
me — I remember I called it 'the queer ache* when I was a child.
What is the reason that pain like this seems inseparable from
perfection ? Is it the pain of finality — when we realise that there
can be nothing beyond but retrogression?" "Perhaps," said Owen
dreamily, "it is the prisoned infinite in us calling out to its kindred
infinite as expressed in that visible perfection." "You seem to have a
cold in the head. Better rub some tallow on your nose when you go
to bed," said Miss Cornelia, who had come in through the little gate
between the firs in time to catch Owen's last remark. Miss Cornelia
liked Owen; but it was a matter of principle with her to visit any
"high falutin" language from a man with a snub. Miss Cornelia
personated the comedy that ever peeps around the corner at the
tragedy of life. Anne, whose nerves had been rather strained,
laughed hysterically, and even Owen smiled. Certainly, sentiment
and passion had a way of shrinking out of sight in Miss Cornelia's
presence. And yet to Anne nothing seemed quite as hopeless and
dark and painful as it had seemed a few moments before, But sleep
was far from her eyes that night.
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CHAPTER XXVII ON THE SAND-BAR OWEN FORD left Four

Winds the next morning. In the evening Anne went over to see
Leslie, but found nobody. The house was locked and there was no
light in any window. It looked like a home left soulless. Leslie did not
run over on the following day — which Anne thought a bad sign.
Gilbert having occasion to go in the evening to the fishing cove,
Anne drove with him to the Point, intending to stay awhile with
Captain Jim. But the great light, cutting its swathes through the fog
of the autumn evening, was in care of Alec Boyd and Captain Jim
was away. "What will you do?" asked Gilbert. "Come with me?" "I
don't want to go to the cove — but I'll go over the channel with you,
and roam about on the sandshore till you come back. The rock shore
is too slippery and grim to-night." Alone on the sands of the bar
Anne gave herself up to the eerie charm of the night. It was warm
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ON THE SAND-BAR 233 foggy; but a full moon had in part

lessened the fog and transformed the harbour and the gulf and the
surrounding shores into a strange, fantastic, unreal world of pale
silver mist, through which everything loomed phantom-like. Captain
Josiah Crawford's black schooner sailing down the channel, laden
with potatoes for Bluenose ports, was a spectral ship bound for a far
uncharted land, ever receding, never to be reached. The calls of
unseen gulls overhead were the cries of the souls of doomed
seamen. The little curls of foam that blew across the sand were elfin
things stealing up from the sea-caves. The big, roundshouldered
sand-dunes were the sleeping giants of some old northern tale. The
lights that glimmered palely across the harbour were the delusive
beacons on some coast of fairyland. Anne pleased herself with a
hundred fancies as she wandered through the mist. It was delightful
— romantic — mysterious to be roaming here alone on this
enchanted shere. But was she alone? Something loomed in the mist
before her — took shape and form — suddenly moved towards her
across the wave-rippled sand. "Leslie!" exclaimed Anne in
amazement. "Whatever are you doing — here — to-night?" "If it
comes to that, whatever are you doing here?" said Leslie, trying to
laugh. The effort was a failure. She looked very pale and tired; but
the love locks under her scarlet cap were curling about her face and
eyes like little sparkling rings of gold.
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234 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS "I'm waiting for Gilbert —

he's over at the Cove. I intended to stay at the light, but Captain Jim
is away." "Well, 7 came here because I wanted to walk — and walk
— and walk," said Leslie restlessly. "I couldn't on the rock shore —
the tide was too high and the rocks prisoned me. I had to come here
— or I should have gone mad, I think. I rowed myself over the
channel in Captain Jim's flat. I've been here for an hour. Come —
come — let us walk. I can't stand still. Oh, Anne!" "Leslie, dearest,
what is the trouble?" asked Anne, though she knew too well already.
"I can't tell you — don't ask me. I wouldn't mind your knowing — I
wish you did know — but I can't tell you — I can't tell anyone. I've
been such a fool, Anne — and oh, it hurts so terribly to be a fool.
There's nothing so painful in the world." She laughed bitterly. Anne
slipped her arm around her. "Leslie, is it that you have learned to
care for Mr. Ford?" Leslie turned herself about passionately. "How did
you know?" she cried. "Anne, how did you know ? Oh, is it written in
my face for everyone to see? Is it as plain as that?" "No, no. I — I
can't tell you how I knew. It just came into my mind, somehow.
Leslie, don't look at me like that!"
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ON THE SAND-BAR 235 "Do you despise me?" demanded

Leslie in a fierce, low tone. "Do you think I'm wicked — unwomanly?
Or do you think I'm just plain fool ?" "I don't think you any of those
things. Come, dear, let's just talk it over sensibly, as we might talk
over any other of the great crises of life. You've been brooding over
it and let yourself drift into a morbid view of it. You know you have a
little tendency to do that about everything that goes wrong, and you
promised me that you would fight against it." "But — oh, it's so — so
shameful," murmured Leslie. "To love him — unsought — and when
I'm not free to love anybody." "There's nothing shameful about it.
But I'm very sorry that you have learned to care for Owen, because,
as things are, it will only make you more unhappy." "I didn't learn to
care," said Leslie, walking on and speaking passionately. "If it had
been like that I could have prevented it. I never dreamed of such a
thing until that day, a week ago, when he told me he had finished
his book and must soon go away. Then — then I knew. I felt as if
someone had struck me a terrible blow. I didn't say anything — I
couldn't speak — but I don't know what I looked like. I'm so afraid
my face betrayed me. Oh, I would die of shame if I thought he knew
— or suspected." Anne was miserably silent, hampered by her
deductions from her conversation with Owen. Leslie went on
feverishly, as if she found relief in speech.
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236 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS "I was so happy all this

summer, Anne — happier than I ever was in my life. I thought it was
because everything had been made clear between you and me, and
that it was our friendship which made life seem so beautiful and full
once more. And it was, in part -—but not all — oh, not nearly all. I
know now why everything was so different. And now it's all over —
and he has gone. How can I live, Anne? When I turned back into the
house this morning after he had gone the solitude struck me like a
blow in the face." "It won't seem so hard by and by, dear," said
Anne, who always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she
could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she
remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own
sorrow and was afraid. "Oh, it seems to me it will grow harder all the
time," said Leslie miserably. "I've nothing to look forward to. Morning
will come after morning — and he will not come back — he will
never come back. Oh, when I think that I will never see him again I
feel as if a great brutal hand had twisted itself among my
heartstrings, and was wrenching them. Once, long ago, I dreamed
of love — and I thought it must be beautiful — and now — it's like
this. When he went away yesterday morning he was so cold and
indifferent. He said 'Good-bye, Mrs. Moore' in the coldest tone in the
world — as if we had not even been friends — as if I meant
absolutely nothing to him. I know
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ON THE SAND-BAR 237 I don't — I didn't want him to care

— but he might have been a little kinder." "Oh, I wish Gilbert would
come," thought Anne. She was racked between her sympathy for
Leslie and the necessity of avoiding anything that would betray
Owen's confidence. She knew why his good-bye had been so cold —
why it could not have the cordiality that their good-comradeship
demanded — but she could not tell Leslie. "I couldn't help it, Anne
— I couldn't help it," said poor Leslie. "I know that." "Do you blame
me so very much?" "I don't blame you at all." "And you won't — you
won't tell Gilbert?" "Leslie ! Do you think I would do such a thing ?"
"Oh, I don't know — you and Gilbert are such chums. I don't see
how you could help telling him everything." "Everything about my
own concerns — yes. But not my friends' secrets." *'I couldn't have
him know. But I'm glad you know. I would feel guilty if there were
anything I was ashamed to tell you. I hope Miss Cornelia won't find
out. Sometimes I feel as if those terrible, kind brown eyes of hers
read my very soul. Oh, I wish this mist would never lift — I wish I
could just stay in it forever, hidden away from every living being. I
don't see how I can go on with life. This summer
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238 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS has been so full. I never

was lonely for a moment. Before Owen came there used to be
horrible moments — when I had been with you and Gilbert — and
then had to leave you. You two would walk away together and I
would walk away alone. After Owen came he was always there to
walk home with me — we would laugh and talk as you and Gilbert
were doing "—there were no more lonely, envious moments for me.
And now! Oh, yes, I've been a fool. Let's have done talking about
my folly. I'll never bore you with it again." "Here is Gilbert, and you
are coming back with us," said Anne, who had no intention of
leaving Leslie to wander alone on the sand-bar on such a night and
in such a mood. "There's plenty of room in our boat for three, and
we'll tie the flat on behind." "Oh, I suppose I must reconcile myself
to being the odd one again," said poor Leslie with another bitter
laugh. "Forgive me, Anne — that was hateful. I ought to be thankful
— and I am — that I have two good friends who are glad to count
me in as a third. Don't mind my hateful speeches. I just seem to be
one great pain all over and everything hurts me." "Leslie seemed
very quiet tonight, didn't she?" said Gilbert, when he and Anne
reached home. "What in the world was she doing over there on the
bar alone?" "Oh, she was tired — and you know she likes to go to
the shore after one of Dick's bad days."
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ON THE SAND-BAR 239 "What a pity she hadn't met and

married a fellow like Ford long ago," ruminated Gilbert. "They'd have
made an ideal couple, wouldn't they?" "For pity's sake, Gilbert, don't
develop into a matchmaker. It's an abominable profession for a
man," cried Anne rather sharply, afraid that Gilbert might blunder on
the truth if he kept on in this strain. "Bless us, Anne-girl, I'm not
matchmaking," protested Gilbert, rather surprised at her tone. "I
was only thinking of one of the might-have-beens." "Well, don't. It's
a waste of time," said Anne. Then she added suddenly : "Oh,
Gilbert, I wish everybody could be as happy as we are."
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CHAPTER XXVIII ODDS AND ENDS I'VE been reading

obituary notices," said Mist Cornelia, laying down the Daily
Enterprise and taking up her sewing. The harbour was lying black
and sullen under a dour November sky; the wet, dead leaves clung
drenched and sodden to the window sills; but the little house was
gay with firelight and spring-like with Anne's ferns and geraniums.
"It's always summer here, Anne," Leslie had said one day; and all
who were the guests of that house of dreams felt the same. "The
Enterprise seems to run to obituaries these days," quoth Miss
Cornelia. "It always has a couple of columns of them, and I read
every line. It's one of my forms of recreation, especially when there's
some original poetry attached to them. Here's a choice sample for
you : 'She's gone to be with her Maker, Never more to roam. She
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ODDS AND ENDS 241 Who says we haven't any poetical

talent on the Island! Have you ever noticed what heaps of good
people die, Anne, dearie ? It's kind of pitiful. Here's ten obituaries,
and every one of them saints and models, even the men. Here's old
Peter Stimson, who has 'left a large circle of friends to mourn his
untimely loss.' Lord, Anne, dearie, that man was eighty, and
everybody who knew him had been wishing him dead these thirty
years. Read obituaries when you're blue, Arnie, dearie — especially
the ones of folks you know. If you've any sense of humour at all
they'll cheer you up, believe me. I just wish / had the writing of the
obituaries of some people. Isn't 'obituary' an awful ugly word? This
very Peter I've been speaking of had a face exactly like one. I never
saw it but I thought of the word obituary then and there. There's
only one uglier word that I know of, and that's relict. Lord, Anne,
dearie, I may be an old maid, but there's this comfort in it — I'll
never be any man's 'relict.' ' "It is an ugly word," said Anne,
laughing. "Avonlea graveyard was full of old tombstones 'sacred to
the memory of So-and-So, relict of the late So-andSo.' It always
made me think of something wornout and moth-eaten. Why is it that
so many of the words connected with death are so disagreeable? I
do wish that the custom of calling a dead body 'the remains' could
be abolished. I positively shiver when I hear the undertaker say at a
funeral, 'All who wish
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242 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS to see the remains please

step this way.' It always gives me the horrible impression that I am
about to view the scene of a cannibal feast." "Well, all I hope," said
Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our
departed sister.' I took a scunner at this sistering-and-brothering
business five years ago when there was a travelling evangelist
holding meetings at the Glen. I hadn't any use for him from the
start. I felt in my bones that there was something wrong with him.
And there was. Mind you, he was pretending to be a Presbyterian—
Presby tarian, he called it — and all the time he was a Methodist. He
brothered and sistered everybody. He had a large circle of relations,
that man had. He clutched my hand fervently one night, and said
imploringly, 'My dear sister Bryant, are you a Christian?' I just looked
him over a bit, and then I said calmly, The only brother I ever had,
Mr. Fiske, was buried fifteen years ago, and I haven't adopted any
since. As for being a Christian, I was that, I hope and believe, when
you were crawling about the floor in petticoats.' That squelched him,
believe me. Mind you, Anne dearie, I'm not down on all evangelists.
We've had some real fine, earnest men, who did a lot of good and
made the old sinners squirm. But this Fiske-man wasn't one of them.
I had a good laugh all to myself one evening. Fiske had asked all
who were Christians to stand up. 7 didn't, believe me! I never had
any use for that sort of thing. But most
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ODDS AND ENDS 243 of them did, and then he asked all
who wanted to be Christians to stand up. Nobody stirred for a spell,
so Fiske started up a hymn at the top of his voice. Just in front of
me poor little Ikey Baker was sitting in the Millison pew. He was a
home boy, ten years old, and Millison just about worked him to
death. The poor little creature was always so tired he fell asleep
right off whenever he went to church or anywhere he could sit still
for a few minutes. He'd been sleeping all through the meeting, and I
was thankful to see the poor child getting a rest, believe me. Well,
when Fiske's voice went soaring skyward and the rest joined in, poor
Ikey wakened with a start. He thought it was just an ordinary
singing and that everybody ought to stand up, so he scrambled to
his feet mighty quick, knowing he'd get a combing down from Maria
Millison for sleeping in meeting. Fiske saw him, stopped and
shouted, 'Another soul saved! Glory Hallelujah!' And there was poor,
frightened Ikey, only half awake and yawning, never thinking about
his soul at all. Poor child, he never had time to think of anything but
his tired, overworked little body. "Leslie went one night and the
Fiske-man got right after her — oh, he was especially anxious about
the souls of the nice-looking girls, believe me! — and he hurt her
feelings so she never went again. And then he prayed every night
after that, right in public, that the Lord would soften her hard heart.
Finally
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244 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS I went to Mr. Leavitt, our

minister then, and told him if he didn't make Fiske stop that I'd just
rise up the next night and throw my hymn book at him when he
mentioned that 'beautiful but unrepentant young woman.' I'd have
done it too, believe me. Mr. Leavitt did put a stop to it, but Fiske
kept on with his meetings until Charley Douglas put an end to his
career in the Glen. Mrs. Charley had been out in California all winter.
She'd been real melancholy in the fall — religious melancholy — it
ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he
had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum. So
when Rose Douglas got that way Charley packed her off to visit her
sister in Los Angeles. She got perfectly well and came home just
when the Fiske revival was in full swing. She stepped off the train at
the Glen, real smiling and chipper, and the first thing she saw staring
her in the face on the black, gable-end of the freight shed, was the
question, in big white letters, two feet high, 'Whither goest thou —
to heaven or hell?' That had been one of Fiske's ideas, and he had
got Henry Hammond to paint it. Rose just gave a shriek and fainted;
and when they got her home she was worse than ever. Charley
Douglas went to Mr. Leavitt and told him that every Dougfas would
leave the church if Fiske was kept there any longer. Mr. Leavitt had
to give in, for the Douglases paid half his salary, so Fiske departed,
and we had to depend on our Bibles once more
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ODDS AND ENDS 245 for instructions on how to get to

heaven. After he was gone Mr. Leavitt found out he was just a
masquerading Methodist, and he felt pretty sick, believe me. Mr.
Leavitt fell short in some ways, but he was a good, sound
Presbyterian." "By the way, I had a letter from Mr. Ford yesterday,"
said Anne. "He asked me to remember him kindly to you." "I don't
want his remembrances," said Miss Cornelia, curtly. "Why?" said
Anne, in astonishment. "I thought you liked him." "Well, so I did, in
a kind of way. But I'll never forgive him for what he done to Leslie.
There's that poor child eating her heart out about him — as if she
hadn't had trouble enough — and him ranting round Toronto, I've no
doubt, enjoying himself same as ever. Just like a man." "Oh, Miss
Cornelia, how did you find out?" "Lord, Anne, dearie, I've got eyes,
haven't I ? And I've known Leslie since she was a baby. There's been
a new kind of heartbreak in her eyes all the fall, and I know that
writer-man was behind it somehow. I'll never forgive myself for
being the means of bringing him here. But I never expected he'd be
like he was. I thought he'd just be like the other men Leslie had
boarded — conceited young asses, every one of them, that she
never had any use for. One of them did try to flirt with her once and
she froze him out — so bad,
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246 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS I feel sure he's never got

himself thawed since. So I never thought of any danger." "Don't let
Leslie suspect you know her secret," said Anne hurriedly. "I think it
would hurt her." "Trust me, Anne, dearie. / wasn't born yesterday.
Oh, a plague on all the men! One of them ruined Leslie's life to
begin with, and now another of the tribe comes and makes her still
more wretched. Anne, this world is an awful place, believe me" "
'There's something in the world amiss Will be unriddled by and by,' "
quoted Anne dreamily. "If it is, it'll be in a world where there aren't
any men," said Miss Cornelia gloomily. "What have the men been
doing now?" asked Gilbert, entering. "Mischief — mischief! What else
did they ever do?" "It was Eve ate the apple, Miss Cornelia." " 'Twas
a he-creature tempted her," retorted Miss Cornelia triumphantly.
Leslie, after her first anguish was over, found it possible to go on
with life after all, as most of us do, no matter what our particular
form of torment has been. It is even possible that she enjoyed
moments of it, when she was one of the gay circle in the little house
of dreams. But if Anne ever hoped that she was forgetting Owen
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ODDS AND ENDS 247 deceived by the furtive hunger in

Leslie's eyes whenever his name was mentioned. Pitiful to that
hunger, Anne always contrived to tell Captain Jim or Gilbert bits of
news from Owen's letters when Leslie was with them. The girl's flush
and pallor at such moments spoke all too eloquently of the emotion
that filled her being. But she never spoke of him to Anne, or
mentioned that night on the sand-bar. One day her old dog died and
she grieved bitterly over him. "He's been my friend so long," she
said sorrowfully to Anne. "He was Dick's old dog, you know — Dick
had him for a year or so before we were married. He left him with
me when he sailed on the Four Sisters. Carlo got very fond of me —
and his dog-love helped me through that first dreadful year after
mother died, when I was all alone. When I heard that Dick was
coming back I was afraid Carlo wouldn't be so much mine. But he
never seemed to care for Dick, though he had been so fond of him
once. He would snap and growl at him as if he were a stranger. I
was glad. It was nice to have one thing whose love was all mine.
That old dog has been such a comfort to me, Anne. He got so feeble
in the fall that I was afraid he couldn't live long — but I hoped I
could nurse him through the winter. He seemed pretty well this
morning. He was lying on the rug before the fire; then, all at once,
he got up and crept over to me; he put his head on my lap and gave
me one loving look
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248 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS out of his big, soft, dog

eyes — and then he just shivered and died. I shall miss him so." "Let
me give you another dog, Leslie," said Anne. "I'm getting a lovely
Gordon setter for a Christmas present for Gilbert. Let me give you
one too." Leslie shook her head. "Not just now, thank you, Anne. I
don't feel like having another dog yet. I don't seem to have any
affection left for another. Perhaps — in time — I'll let you give me
one. I really need one as a kind of protection. But there was
something almost human about Carlo — it wouldn't be decent to fill
his place too hurriedly, dear old fellow." Anne went to Avonlea a
week before Christmas and stayed until after the holidays. Gilbert
came up for her, and there was a glad New Year celebration at
Green Gables, when Barrys and Blythes and Wrights assembled to
devour a dinner which had cost Mrs. Rachel and Marilla much careful
thought and preparation. When they went back to Four Winds the
little house was almost drifted over, for the third storm of a winter
that was to prove phenomenally stormy had whirled up the harbour
and heaped huge snow mountains about everything it encountered.
But Captain Jim had shovelled out doors and paths, and Miss
Cornelia had come down and kindled the hearthfire. "It's good to see
you back, Anne, dearie! But did you ever see such drifts? You can't
see the Moore
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Leslie'll be so glad you're back. She's almost buried alive over there.
Fortunately Dick can shovel snow, and thinks it's great fun. Susan
sent me word to tell you she would be on hand tomorrow. Where
are you off to now, Captain?" "I reckon I'll plough up to the Glen and
sit a bit with old Martin Strong. He's not far from his end and he's
lonesome. He hasn't many friends — been too busy all his life to
make any. He's made heaps of money, though." "Well, he thought
that since he couldn't serve God and Mammon he'd better stick to
Mammon," said Miss Cornelia crisply. "So he shouldn't complain if he
doesn't find Mammon very good company now." Captain Jim went
out, but remembered something in the yard and turned back for a
moment. "I'd a letter from Mr. Ford, Mistress Blythe, and he says the
life-book is accepted and is going to be published next fall. I felt fair
uplifted when I got the news. To think that I'm to see it in print at
last." "That man is clean crazy on the subject of his life-book," said
Miss Cornelia compassionately. "For my part, I think there's far too
many books in the world now."
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CHAPTER XXIX GILBERT AND ANNE DISAGREE GILBERT

laid down the ponderous medical tome over which he had been
poring until the increasing dusk of the March evening made him
desist. He leaned back in his chair and gazed meditatively out of the
window. It was early spring — probably the ugliest time of the year.
Not even the sunset could redeem the dead, sodden landscape and
rottenblack harbour ice upon which he looked. No sign of life was
visible, save a big black crow winging his solitary way across a
leaden field. Gilbert speculated idly concerning that crow. Was he a
family crow, with a black but comely crow wife awaiting him in the
woods beyond the Glen? Or was he a glossy young buck of a crow
on courting thoughts intent? Or was he a cynical bachelor crow,
believing that he travels the fastest who travels alone? Whatever he
was, he soon disappeared in congenial gloom and Gilbert turned to
the cheerier view indoors. The firelight flickered from point to point,
gleaming on the white and green coats of Gog and Magog, on the
sleek, brown head of the beautiful setter basking 250
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picture frames on the walls, on the vaseful of daffodils from the
window garden, on Anne herself, sitting by her little table, with her
sewing beside her and her hands clasped over her knee while she
traced out pictures in the fire — Castles in Spain whose airy turrets
pierced moonlit cloud and sunset bar — ships sailing from the Haven
of Good Hopes straight to Four Winds Harbour with precious
burthen. For Anne was again a dreamer of dreams, albeit a grim
shape of fear went with her night and day to shadow and darken her
visions. Gilbert was accustomed to refer to himself as "an old
married man." But he still looked upon Anne with the incredulous
eyes of a lover. He couldn't wholly believe yet that she was really his.
It might be only a dream after all, part and parcel of this magic
house of dreams. His soul still went on tip-toe before her, lest the
charm be shattered and the dream dispelled. "Anne," he said slowly,
"lend me your ears. I want to talk with you about something." Anne
looked across at him through the fire-lit gloom. "What is it?" she
asked, gaily. "You look fearfully solemn, Gilbert. I really haven't done
anything naughty to-day. Ask Susan." "It's not of you — or ourselves
— I want to talk. It's about Dick Moore." "Dick Moore?" echoed
Anne, sitting up alertly.
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252 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS "Why, what in the world

have you to say about Dick Moore?" "I've been thinking a great deal
about him lately. Do you remember that time last summer I treated
him for those carbuncles on his neck?" "Yes— yes." "I took the
opportunity to examine the scars on his head thoroughly. I've always
thought Dick was a very interesting case from a medical point of
view. Lately I've been studying the history of trephining and the
cases where it has been employed. Anne, I have come to the
conclusion that if Dick Moore were taken to a good hospital and the
operation of trephining performed on several places in his skull, his
memory and faculties might be restored." "Gilbert!" Anne's voice was
full of protest. "Surely you don't mean it!" "I do, indeed. And I have
decided that it is my duty to broach the subject to Leslie." "Gilbert
Blythe, you shall not do any such thing," cried Anne vehemently.
"Oh, Gilbert, you won't — you won't. You couldn't be so cruel.
Promise me you won't." "Why, Anne-girl, I didn't suppose you would
take it like this. Be reasonable—" "I won't be reasonable — I can't
be reasonable — I am reasonable. It is you who are unreasonable.
Gilbert, have you ever once thought what it would mean for Leslie if
Dick Moore were to be restored to his
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and think! She's unhappy enough now; but life as Dick's nurse and
attendant is a thousand times easier for her than life as Dick's wife. I
know — I know! It's unthinkable. Don't you meddle with the matter.
Leave well enough alone." "I have thought over that aspect of the
case thoroughly, Anne. But I believe that a doctor is bound to set
the sanctity of a patient's mind and body above all other
considerations, no matter what the consequences may be. I believe
it his duty to endeavour to restore health and sanity, if there is any
hope whatever of it." "But Dick isn't your patient in that respect,"
cried Anne, taking another tack. "If Leslie had asked you if anything
could be done for him, then it might be your duty to tell her what
you really thought. But you've no right to meddle." "I don't call it
meddling. Uncle Dave told Leslie twelve years ago that nothing could
be done for Dick. She believes that, of course." "And why did Uncle
Dave tell her that, if it wasn't true?" cried Anne, triumphantly.
"Doesn't he know as much about it as you?" "I think not — though it
may sound conceited and presumptuous to say it. And you know as
well as I that he is rather prejudiced against what he calls 'these
new-fangled notions of cutting and carving.' He's even opposed to
operating for appendicitis."
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254 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS "He's right," exclaimed

Anne, with a complete change of front. "I believe myself that you
modern doctors are entirely too fond of making experiments with
human flesh and blood." "Rhoda Allonby would not be a living
woman today if I had been afraid of making a certain experiment,"
argued Gilbert. "I took the risk — and saved her life." "I'm sick and
tired of hearing about Rhoda Allonby," cried Anne — most unjustly,
for Gilbert had never mentioned Mrs. Allonby's name since the day
he had told Anne of his success in regard to her. And he could not
be blamed for other people's discussion of it. Gilbert felt rather hurt.
"I had not expected you to look at the matter as you do, Anne," he
said a little stiffly, getting up and moving towards the office door. It
was their first approach to a quarrel. But Anne flew after him and
dragged him back. "Now, Gilbert, you are not 'going off mad.' Sit
down here and I'll apologise bee-ym-ti- fully. I shouldn't have said
that. But — oh, if you knew — " Anne checked herself just in time.
She had been on the very verge of betraying Leslie's secret. "Knew
what a woman feels about it," she concluded lamely. "I think I do
know. I've looked at the matter from every point of view — and I've
been driven to the conclusion that it is my duty to tell Leslie that I
believe
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can be restored to himself; there my responsibility ends. It will be
for her to decide what she will do." "I don't think you've any right to
put such a responsibility on her. She has enough to bear. She is poor
— how could she afford such an operation?" "That is for her to
decide," persisted Gilbert stubbornly. "You say you think that Dick
can be cured. But are you sure of it?" "Certainly not. Nobody could
be sure of such a thing. There may have been lesions of the brain
itself, the effect of which can never be removed. But if, as I believe,
his loss of memory and other faculties is due merely to the pressure
on the brain centres of certain depressed areas of bone, then he can
be cured." "But it's only a possibility !" insisted Anne. "Now, suppose
you tell Leslie and she decides to have the operation. It will cost a
great deal. She will have to borrow the money, or sell her little
property. And suppose the operation is a failure and Dick remains
the same. How will she be able to pay back the money she borrows,
or make a living for herself and that big helpless creature if she sells
the farm?" "Oh, I know — I know. But it is my duty to tell her. I can't
get away from that conviction." "Oh, I know the Blythe
stubbornness," groaned Anne. "But don't do this solely on your own
responsibility. Consult Doctor Dave."
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256 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS "I have done so," said

Gilbert reluctantly. "And what did he say?" "In brief — as ^ou say —
leave well enough alone, Apart from his prejudice against new-
fangled surgery, I'm afraid he looks at the case from your point of
view — don't do it, for Leslie's sake." "There now," cried Anne
triumphantly. "I do think, Gilbert, that you ought to abide by the
judgment of a man nearly eighty, who has seen a great deal and
saved scores of lives himself — surely his opinion ought to weigh
more than a mere boy's." "Thank you." "Don't laugh. It's too
serious." "That's just my point. It is serious. Here is a man who is a
helpless burden. He may be restored to reason and usefulness — "
"He was so very useful before," interjected Anne witheringly. "He
may be given a chance to make good and redeem the past. His wife
doesn't know this. I do. It is therefore my duty to tell her that there
is such a possibility. That, boiled down, is my decision." "Don't say
'decision' yet, Gilbert. Consult somebody else. Ask Captain Jim what
he thinks about it." "Very well. But I'll not promise to abide by his
opinion, Anne. This is something a man must decide for himself. My
conscience would never be easy if I k«pt silent on the subject." "Oh,
your conscience!" moaned Anne. "I suppose
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conscience too, hasn't he?" "Yes. But I am not the keeper of his
conscience. Come, Anne, if this affair did not concern Leslie — if it
were a purely abstract case, you would agree with me, — you know
you would." "I wouldn't," vowed Anne, trying to believe it herself.
"Oh, you can argue all night, Gilbert, but you won't convince me.
Just you ask Miss Cornelia what she thinks of it." "You're driven to
the last ditch, Anne, when you bring up Miss Cornelia as a
reinforcement. She will say, 'Just like a man,' and rage furiously. No
matter. This is no affair for Miss Cornelia to settle. Leslie alone must
decide it." "You know very well how she will decide it," said Anne,
almost in tears. "She has ideals of duty, too. I don't see how you can
take such a responsibility on your shoulders. / couldn't." " 'Because
right is right to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of
consequence/ " quoted Gilbert. "Oh, you think a couplet of poetry a
convincing argument !" scoffed Anne. "That is so like a man." And
then she laughed in spite of herself. It sounded so like an echo of
Miss Cornelia. "Well, if you won't accept Tennyson as an authority,
perhaps you will believe the words of a Greater than he," said Gilbert
seriously. " 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you
free.' I believe that,
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258 ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS Anne, with all my heart.

It's the greatest and grandest verse in the Bible — or in any
literature — and the truest, if there are comparative degrees of
trueness. And it's the first duty of a man to tell the truth, as he sees
it and believes it." "In this case the truth won't make poor Leslie
free," sighed Anne. "It will probably end in still more bitter bondage
for her. Oh, Gilbert, I can't think you ire right."
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CHAPTER XXX LESLIE DECIDES A SUDDEN outbreak of a

virulent type of influenza at the Glen and down at the fishing village
kept Gilbert so busy for the next fortnight that he had no time to pay
the promised visit to Captain Jim. Anne hoped against hope that he
had abandoned the idea about Dick Moore, and, resolving to let
sleeping dogs lie, she said no more about the subject. But she
thought of it incessantly. "I wonder if it would be right for me to tell
him that Leslie cares for Owen," she thought. "He would never let
her suspect that he knew, so her pride would not suffer, and it might
convince him that he should let Dick Moore alone. Shall I — shall I?
No, after all, I cannot. A promise is sacred, and I've no right to
betray Leslie's secret. But oh, I never felt so worried over anything in
my life as I do over this. It's spoiling the spring — it's spoiling
everything." One evening Gilbert abruptly proposed that they go
down and see Captain Jim. With a sinking heart Anne agreed, and
they set forth. Two weeks of kind sunshine had wrought a miracle in
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