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Valancy’s only solace in life is her dreams of the Blue Castle, a place where she can finally be free. At 29, she has never been in love and doesn’t find any comfort in her family. But after receiving bad news, she decides to break free from the life she despises. Without any more expectations weighing down on her, she starts living however she pleases. Somehow, it brings her closer to the Blue Castle she had pictured in the past. This sweet romance filled with humor is both endearing and charming. It has been written by the author of the famous Anne of Green Gables series. So, if you’re looking for a little bit of courage to stand up for yourself or just a story to bring you hope, join Valancy and enter the realm of her Blue Castle.
Author
L. M. Montgomery
Read by
Bryn Roberts
Story
CHAPTER I
The Blue Castle
By L. M. Montgomery
CHAPTER I
If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington’s engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
Valancy wakened early, in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn. She had not slept very well. One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
Deerwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood. But Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man.
Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellington or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.
The tears came into her eyes as she lay there alone in the faintly greying darkness. She dared not let herself cry as hard as she wanted to, for two reasons. She was afraid that crying might bring on another attack of that pain around the heart. She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed rather worse than any she had had yet. And she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast and keep at her with minute, persistent, mosquito-like questions regarding the cause thereof.
“Suppose,” thought Valancy with a ghastly grin, “I answered with the plain truth, ‘I am crying because I cannot get married.’ How horrified Moth...
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About this book
Valancy’s only solace in life is her dreams of the Blue Castle, a place where she can finally be free. At 29, she has never been in love and doesn’t find any comfort in her family. But after receiving bad news, she decides to break free from the life she despises. Without any more expectations weighing down on her, she starts living however she pleases. Somehow, it brings her closer to the Blue Castle she had pictured in the past. This sweet romance filled with humor is both endearing and charming. It has been written by the author of the famous Anne of Green Gables series. So, if you’re looking for a little bit of courage to stand up for yourself or just a story to bring you hope, join Valancy and enter the realm of her Blue Castle.
Author
L. M. Montgomery
Read by
Bryn Roberts
Story
CHAPTER I
The Blue Castle
By L. M. Montgomery
CHAPTER I
If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington’s engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
Valancy wakened early, in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn. She had not slept very well. One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
Deerwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood. But Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man.
Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellington or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.
The tears came into her eyes as she lay there alone in the faintly greying darkness. She dared not let herself cry as hard as she wanted to, for two reasons. She was afraid that crying might bring on another attack of that pain around the heart. She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed rather worse than any she had had yet. And she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast and keep at her with minute, persistent, mosquito-like questions regarding the cause thereof.
“Suppose,” thought Valancy with a ghastly grin, “I answered with the plain truth, ‘I am crying because I cannot get married.’ How horrified Moth...
Section 1 of 23 sections
