{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"ANNE OF THE ISLAND (CHAP 31) Anne to Philippa & (CHAP 32) Tea with Mrs. Douglas","description":"In today\u2019s episode of L. M. Montgomery's Anne of the Island, we rejoin Anne Shirley as she returns to the life of a country \u2018schoolma\u2019am\u2019 at Valley Road. Boarding at Wayside with the thrifty soul Janet Sweet, Anne enjoys a world of feather-beds and lavish feasts, though she is slightly haunted by a parlor decorated with five preserved coffin plates.  While the local social scene is quiet, save for a youth offering peppermints, Anne becomes a passive spectator to the courtship of Janet and John Douglas, a man whose face reveals a patient, humorous endurance. However, during a tea with John\u2019s mother, an angelic woman who claims to have been dying by inches for twenty years, Anne catches a glimpse of John looking like a tortured man, hinting at a hidden weight behind their long-standing placid courtship. Credits Host and Producer Gizelle Erickson Executive Producer Jon Hagadorn Music Thanks to Luis_Humanoide \u201cVictorian Violin Waltz\u201d Music by Luis Humanoide from Pixabay LibriVox Recording by Rachel Ellen   ","author_name":"1001 Stories From The Gilded Age","author_url":"https:\/\/www.bestof1001stories.com\/show\/1001storiesfromthegildedage\/","html":"