This forces Annie to break all ties with Pony's Home and Candy to promise never to reveal Annie's secret. The loss of Annie's friendship breaks Candy's heart and she tries to find solace on the hilltop near Pony's Home. A mysterious prince in kilt and playing bagpipes manages to cheer her up, but disappears into thin air as quickly as he appeared, only leaving a pendant with a family sign as evidence that he exists.
When the steward of the rich Leagan family visits Pony's Home to inform Miss Pony and Sister Mary that his employer is prospecting for a girl that could be a playmate for his daughter, Candy instantly volunteers for it, because the Leagan car carries the same symbol as the pendant of Candy's hilltop prince.
When she learns that the Leagans live in Lakewood, which is near to Jasper where Annie lives, Candy's mind is made up. The two spoiled Leagan children, Eliza and Neil, pester Candy from day one in the hope to chase her off back to where she came from. Their mother who was against the idea in the first place does nothing to stop the pestering. And while Mr. Leagan knows Candy's worth and questions his children's stories, he is more absent than present.
Before long, Candy is downgraded from Eliza's playmate to servant, and moved from the attic into the barn. While Candy has every reason and opportunity to run away and return to Pony's Home, she opts to stay, because she believes her hilltop prince to live in the neighboring estate of the Ardley family. She meets Anthony Brown in almost similar mysterious circumstances in front of the estate's closed rose gates that carry the same symbol as her pendant.
Although he is Eliza's favorite, Anthony prefers Candy's company and even grows a new type of rose for her birthday which he names "Sweet Candy".
Anthony has two charming cousins who often help Candy: the Cornwell brothers Archibald and inventor Alistear. Candy also finds a friend in the maidservant Dorothy and the vagabond Albert. While Candy is under the initial impression that Anthony actually is the hilltop prince, she soon learns he cannot be: he has never been to Pony's Hill and he met Candy for the first time at the gates of his late mother's rose garden.
As the child romance between Candy and Anthony blooms, Eliza's attempts to rid herself of Candy become more drastic. Neil frames Candy and makes her out to be a thief. As a consequence, Candy is sent packing as a manual laborer to Mexico. Before getting to the intended destination, however, Candy ends up being kidnapped in Texas. Though she is richly taken care of by her kidnappers, Candy fears she will be trafficked and sold to childless Europeans.
Not wanting to put anymore distance between herself and Anthony, she manages to escape in New Orleans and returns to Lakewood by freight train. There she learns that her kidnapper was an employee of a benefactor she has never met: grandfather William Ardley. Anthony, Archibald and Alistair had written him letters, pleading him to adopt Candy in order to save her from a harsh fate. Candy feels as if she lives in a dream: a rich life at the Ardley home, together with Anthony, Archibald and Alistair.
Eliza and Neil cannot hurt her anymore. And even the severe Ardley matriarch, great-aunt Elroy, eventually warms a little to Candy. But Anthony is envious of this mysterious hilltop prince who stole Candy's heart before he ever met her. He fears Candy only likes him because he looks like him.
Candy manages to appease him by stating she does not care anymore who the hilltop prince might be and that, yes even if they might be twins in looks, she loves the fourteen year old Anthony because he is Anthony. After their first romantic date in town, nothing seems to stand in Candy's way to live a happily ever after from her twelve years on. Anthony even manages to figure out who the hilltop prince must have been.
But before he can explain to Candy during a fox hunt, he dies in an unfortunate accident after a fall from his horse. Nov 29, Adrii Cr rated it it was amazing. Apr 07, Maria Acosta rated it liked it. Candy me desespera Mar 06, Geral rated it it was amazing Shelves: , mangas , top Es mi volumen favorito hasta ahora, pude sentir tanto.
I can't. Estoy amando estas historietas Nov 28, Marie rated it really liked it Shelves: manga , Walaupun dihukum, Cany yang badung melarikan diri keluar asrama ke tempat Albert untuk menitipkan Hurry teman Patty. Ternyata Albert berteman dengan Therry. Candy dan Therrypun jadi berteman. Saat festival Candy mendapat paket dari paman William yang memungkinkan Candy dapat mengikuti festival. Saat acara festival, Candy mengalami ciumannya yang pertama yang dilakukan dengan paks Walaupun dihukum, Cany yang badung melarikan diri keluar asrama ke tempat Albert untuk menitipkan Hurry teman Patty.
Saat acara festival, Candy mengalami ciumannya yang pertama yang dilakukan dengan paksa oleh Therry. Saat itu juga Terry berusaha membuka mata agar melupakan ketakutannya dan kehilangannya akan Anthony. Sejak itu hubungan Candy dan Terry membaik. Mereka selalu bertemu ditaman sekolah yang suasananya mirip bukit pony.
Archie yang mengetahui hubungan Candy dan Terry sangat marah. Terjadi hal yang sangat menghebohkan saat Archie mengungkapkan perasaannya kepada Candy. Untunglah akhirnya masalah dapat diatasi. Dan Stea sempat menasehati Archie agar memandang candy dari kejauhan saja seperti dirinya.
Walau seluruh sekolah menggosipkan asal usul Anny, Candy-Anny-Patty tetap bersahabat dan selalu bersama sama dengan Stea dan Archie. Pada liburan musim panas, Candy cs ikut sekolah musim panas. DI skotlandia mereka bertemu dengan Terry yang akhirnya ikut bergabung dalam kegiatan mereka. Hubungan Candy dan Terrypun semakin mesra. Candy juga sempat bertemu dengan Eleanor ibu Terry. Kembali ke asrama, sekali lagi Eliza yang sakit hati mulai memasang perangkap untuk Candy dan Terry agar Candy dikeluarkan dari sekolah.
Merasa bersalah Terry menggantikan Candy dikeluarkan dari sekolah. Terrypun berangkat ke Amerika untuk mewujudkan impiannya menjadi seorang aktor. Stear teases Anthony for having his mouth open, while Anthony thinks that Candy reminds him of his dead mother. When Candy deftly repels Eliza and Neil's antics to make her appear without manners, she becomes so ladylike in Anthony's eyes that he starts to daydream about marriage.
Meanwhile, Candy hopes to free her friend Dorothy from servitude and introduce her to great-aunt, but Dorothy explains she volunteered to serve Candy at the Ardley estate because it makes her happy; that happiness is something that each person has to build for oneself.
Candy starts to find many of the aristocratic way of living silly and annoying: being dressed, butlers delivering messages, learning all the Ardley names, dates of birth and death by heart.
Stear and Archi disrupt Candy's studying with a harmless prank before taking her out for the day. Eliza, meanwhile, lured Anthony on a horseriding trip to show him a new rose she wants him to see.
When her claim turns out to be a lie, Anthony is about to turn back home, but Eliza gallops off in a hissyfit. Feeling obliged to pursue Eliza for her safety, both horseriders nearly collide with Tom's cart.
Tom blames Athony for the incident and wants to know how they will repay him for the spilt milk. Anthony gives his name, before leaving with Eliza to have her taken care off. Seeing the opportunity, Eliza pleads with Anthony to remain at her bedside until late at night. Upset at being snubbed by Anthony's no-show, Tom seeks out Anthony at the Leagan estate only to end up thrown out. Next, he tries his luck at the Ardleys, accusing Anthony of being a coward and womanizer. When Candy defends Anthony, Tom takes it as a personal insult and thinks her a snob.
Fretting over it, Candy cannot find sleep until Anthony arrives back home. Early the next morning, Anthony meets Tom in the forest to own up for his mistakes. They hold a fist fight that ends at stalemate when both are exchausted and agree to be friends. To make amends, Anthony and Candy escort Tom when he delivers the milk, and this inspires the townspeople to gossip.
Great-aunt Elroy is so incensed about it that she confines Candy to the house and sends Anthony to live in the dilapidated mountain mansion. Anthony spends his time with Tom, working at the house and training a pigeon to carry a message to the forlorn Candy.
In the message he assuring her that he loves his new living situation and freedom. The messaging via pigeon continues, although it is not always easy to avoid great-aunt Elroy's detection during her garden walks. One such day, after being ordered to close the window, Candy sees the pigeon fly away with regret. Instead of flying back to Anthony though, it circles around great-aunt's head and shows its messy disapproval of her, before landing on Alistear's car where the two brother retrieve the message for Candy.
Upon delivery, they learn Anthony plans to participate in a rodeo in Tom's village. Stear suggests his latest invention might carry Candy's reply back. The small-scale hot air balloon loaded with roses and letter flies perfectly, but once airborne, it depends on the wind for its direction. After the wind changes direction, the balloon crashes on Eliza's balcony and catches fire.
Having learned Anthony's plans, great-aunt Elroy charges Candy with the mission to visit and dissuade Anthony. If she fails she will be held responsible if Anthony gets injured during the rodeo. After Tom puts the risk of injury in perspective, Candy mostly fears that Anthony will never really be able to embrace life under great-aunt's wing. As they discuss the several rodeo contests, including lasso-throwing contest, Candy has the idea to recruit Archi and Stear into joining along with the argument that if they all join the rodeo then great-aunt cannot be angry with Anthony alone.
But Great-aunt Elroy sabotages the plans after talking with the organizer who denies them entry into the competitions. But when, per Candy's suggestion - Tom spreads the rumor in town that the Ardleys are cowards and the rodeo becomes a matter of family honor, great-aunt Elroy relents and even cheers on Anthony from her carriage as he attempts to remain in the saddle while bronco-busting and beats Tom.
Alistear's experiment with foreworks ends in a thunderous explosion that scares Anthony's prize calf into wandering into the house in the middle of the night. Great-aunt Elroy orders the calf to be removed from the premises, and since the manservant has no clue how, Candy volunteers to take it to Tom. Alas, Candy cannot find him and Anthony suggests to take the calf into town and look for a new owner there. The sole candidate volunteering is the butcher. At the fair they finally meet Steve, Tom's father, who adopts the calf gladly as long as he gets to buy it.
Neither Candy or Anthony ever possessed or used any money before, when their guardians always bought what they needed. The two decide to spend the money on a service. First, they take a horsemill ride at the fair, but since they are the first customers, they get a free ride.
When a manservant comes looking for them in town, the twelve-year old Candy and fourteen-year old Anthony hide in a diner and decide to eat hot dogs there. Anthony looks for chairs and cutlery, but Candy explains that in places like this people eat with their hands while standing. Anthony takes his first bite and instantly proclaims it the best food he tasted so far. The owner recognizes Anthony as the winner of the rodeo and gives the hot dogs for free.
Still looking for a way to spend the money on a service, they decide to visit a fortune teller. The cards show that Candy will have a happy future full of love, but Anthony's cards end with the death card. While it upsets Candy, Anthony assures her he is no child anymore and he is not afraid whether he comes to harm or not. They end their memorable day at dusk by climbing the church's bell tower and enjoy the view. They have only two coins left of their money, which they keep for memory's sake.
Great-aunt Elroy sermons Anthony and Candy for exposing themselves and the family to the town's gossip, until Anthony feigns a headache to escape the litany. In his room, Anthony reveals more about his mother's death and she taught him that the dead live eternally in the memory of loved ones. Later that night, Candy wakes from a nightmare and discovers the roses in the garden are losing their petals, just like before Anthony's mother died.
Frightened for Anthony's safety, Candy recites a prayer. Dorothy tells her it will only work if she also sacrifices something for it. Since she loves eating pies the most, Candy decides she will refrain from eating cake that day. But this promise may be hard to keep: great-aunt baked a pie to make her peace with Candy. When Candy does not eat her pie, she not only insults but truly grieves the matron.
Anthony explains great-aunt's reasons and that, even if severe and conservative, she is not an evil hearted woman. Meanwhile, Dorothy confesses her part to great-aunt Elroy. Realizing her own folly after Anthony laughs at her superstition, Candy eats the whole pie with great taste. The family holds their annual fox hunt, and Candy gets the honor to welcome the hunters. She improvizes a speech, admitting she knows little and asks her guests to teach her how to behave, but being nervous she also ends up saying she wants to get engaged to Anthony.
Once the hunt starts, Anthony and Candy break away and ride to a hilltop precious to Anthony. Candy compares it favorably to her Pony Hill that Anthony would like to visit someday. Anthony talks more about his mother who loved the horses as much as Candy. Finally, Anthony asks Candy who her hilltop prince is, and she tells Anthony he is her prince, irregardless of the other.
Anthony has something to tell her, but wants to wait until they visit Pony's Hill. As they continue their ride, Anthony suddenly understands the mystery of the "hilltop prince": when he was a toddler, another boy who looked like him was often together with his mother.
It all makes sense to him and he would have told Candy Anthony gets thrown off his horse to never wake up. While the Andrew family buries Anthony, Candy suffers a severe fever and nightmares. Archi and Stear reflect how both Anthony's rose garden and their family have shut down and withdrawn from the world.
Neither Candy, nor great-aunt Elroy leave their rooms, let alone the house. In an attempt to brighten Candy's mood, Stear invents a robot squirrel which calls forth memories of Anthony, but eventually the borthers manage to make Candy smile, until Dorothy alarms them. As Candy and the brothers spy through the keyhole they think they see Anthony's ghost. But when they burst into the room, it turns out to be Neil in Anthony's clothing. Great-aunt Elroy gave him the permission to take anything he likes out of Anthony's room.
Candy tries to reason with great-aunt without much success, and is horrified when Eliza and the Leagan gardener Mr. Whittman are uprooting Anthony's roses. Candy's passionate argument that Anthony's spirit will return when the roses bloom again makes the servants pause to reflect on their actions.
If Eliza wants Anthony's roses, then she can do it herself, just as Anthony grew them with his own two hands. Eliza swears she will have them all fired, but the great-aunt watches the scene from her window without intervening. As Candy wanders through the forest, searching for a way to live with her many memories of Anthony and her sorrow, Annie came to visit per her father's suggestion and meets her. Annie encourages Candy to not only dwell upon memories that sadden her, but to recall Pony's Home.
As Annie and Candy return to the house, Annie discovers the sole rose in bloom in the garden, a Sweet Candy. This prompts Candy to try to keep her promise to Anthony as best as she can: she transplants the Sweet Candy on Pony's Hill and visits Pony's Home for a holiday of the sorrowful heart. At Pony's Home Candy wallows in her sorrow over Anthony's death.
The smallest thing can remind her of Anthony instantly. The new, bossy orphan Jimmy is fed up with Candy weeping her days away. John always praises her, but he has not seen anything worth praising. Jimmy starts to taunt her and call her cry-baby. Brown, Anthony's widowed father, visited the family to mourn his son and asks Archi and Stear to gather Anthony's things and give them to Candy.
He also expresses the desire to meet her someday. Jimmy's attempts at inciting Candy into action does not have its fully intended success. Whenever Candy starts to chase him, her mind is easily triggered into mourning Anthony. But when she notices Miss Pony and Sister Mary raising money to buy Christmas gifts, Candy realizes she has neglected the orphans around her. Supportive of her, Miss Pony directs her to find her way back to life. When she finds Jimmy missing from his bed, Candy searches him and finds him outside, at the base of Father Tree crying and calling for his mother he lost so recent.
The tough boy feels as alone and sad as Candy does. Jimmy challenges Candy to a race and tree-climbing contest to figure out who is the true orphan boss. Candy defeats him along with her anguish over Anthony's death. As Christmas day draws near, the Christmass tree is delivered along with the revelation it might be their final Christmas.
Candy sets the kids at work to decorate the tree, only to steal off herself and listen into the adult conversation to find out what is wrong: the owner of the land of Pony's Home, Mr. Cartwright, wants to expand his cattle range and wishes to evict everyone from Pony's Home. Candy takes seven-year old Jimmy with her to talk with Mr.
Cartwright in person. Before they can enter the rich cattle owner's home, an intimidating cowpoke attempts to frighten them away. They manage to escape his groping hands as well as distract the cowboys, by driving the horses out of the stables on a stampede. Candy investigates the premises and notices a gardener who is making sure the trees will keep warm through the snowy winter.
She asks him where she can find Mr. When he asks her why she wants to talk to him, she launches a defaming tirade about his greed and heartlessness, not knowing the gardener is Mr. When the intimidating cowpoke appears on the scene, chasing Jimmy after he broke several windows by throwing snowballs, Candy and Jimmy run to return to Pony's Home and find out the gardener's true identity. Candy fears the worst for Pony's Home.
In a last attempt to soften Mr. Cartwright, Candy leads the orphans dressed like angels to his home. Each "angel" gifts the rough men a kiss for Christmass. Not even the roughest of the cowboys is able to resist such a confrontation with innocense. Matthew the mailman suggests that Candy need not ever return to Lakewood when he delivers an invitation from Tom.
It is time for Candy to choose what to do with her life next. Cartwright wants to adopt Candy. Becoming a cowgirl might fit her better than becoming an Ardley lady. Still, Candy feels it would betray the Ardleys even if she were never to return. With a cart from Mr. Cartwright Candy rides the orphans to Tom's ranch.
There she sees Stear and Archi again after months of separation. The meeting opens a whole new venue of emotions, shared memories as well as love and sorrow. When Tom puts on a rodeo for entertainment, he inadvertently reminds Candy of Anthony's performance, as well as the accident.
The barely healed wound is ripped open all over again and Candy flees, crying her heart out. Strangely enough, Albert appears and tells her that she has cried enough. It is time to choose her path in life. Candy rejoins the party and rodeo dance, while Stear and Archi inform her they are going to London to be educated. On the drive back, Candy ponders her options and realizes the orphans look up to her. She decides her path is Pony's Home and taking care of the orphans.
Jimmy announces and celebrates Candy's decision to become their caretaker and teacher by ringing the bell incessantly. While surprised, Miss Pony and Sister Mary give their consent. Candy takes the kids on a field trip to Mr. Cartwright and come back home with a calf. At Pony's Home, Candy notices the fancy car, thinking it must be Archi and Stear visiting before they leave for London. Instead it is Mr.
George who has come to retrieve Candy, not to the estate, but London. Miss Pony and Sister Mary agree it would be the best thing: she must be educated first before being either a caretaker or teacher.
Jimmy objects and protects Candy together with the other orphans who do not truly understand the nature of the situation. Upset, Candy runs off with Jimmy in a rainstorm. Wet to the bone, Jimmy develops a high fever and despite her efforts Candy cannot help him. Luckily, the adults catch up, and while George takes the ailing Jimmy in his arms, Sister Mary slaps the panicking Candy.
Candy realizes she is a playmate to the other orphans rather than a caretaker and she accepts the trip to London, even if Jimmy swears he hates her for not keeping her promise.
Klint leads Candy to an injured seagull on the deck that she nurses back to health in her cabin. The Atlantic crossing is Captain Wells' last voyage before retirement, which seems uneventful, until they pick up on an SOS from a capsized fisher boat. The captain orders his ship to the rescue, but Mr. Stafford, one of the richest business men in the world, stands to lose a big contract and threatens to have Captain Wells fired for insubordination.
He sends a telegram to the ship's company, but not even his superiors on land can change the captain's course. When they come upon the wreckage, they manage to save all fishermen. Once they set their course back for England, Captain Wells packs his belongings in order to face the music for his heroism. When Candy sees a picture of the captain and his son, she learns his son drowned as a sailor at sea. Candy rushes off to tell her mind to Mr. Stafford, reciting the losses both the captain and she experienced and how his telegram might have cost the lives of several.
While Candy releases the sea gull which takes flight to resume its life in the wild, Mr. Stafford - who regrets his actions - arranges a farewell celebration for the captain. A bit tipsy from champagne, Candy heads out onto the deck where the dense fog obscures a mysterious figure watching out into the sea, and for a moment Candy thinks and hopes it is Anthony. Candy approaches the young man shedding tears at the railing.
On closer inspection he does not even remotely resemble Anthony. When he turns, disturbed out of his reverie, he laughs loudly and calls Candy "freckles" teasingly. When George walks onto the scene he explains the retreating young man is the son of the Duke of Grandchester.
On their way to London, the brothers suggest a sightseeing tour into London before going to the Academy, aka the "prison". George wants to make a stop at the zoo first: the strict school does not allow pets and Klint needs a new home.
But when the reckless son of the Duke chases the carriage and its horses off the road, honking his horn, Klint makes a break for it. Just as she finds him hiding in the tree and promises they will never be separated, a hunter takes a shot at Klint. George checks the stricken Klint who is only pretending to be dead to fool his predator. This gives Stear the idea that Klint could pretend to be a fur collar around Candy's neck.
They test Stear's idea with success during George's guided tour of London. Though George remids them they need to go to Saint-Paul's acadamy, Candy proposes over tea to visit Grandfather William, whom neither has ever seen, at the Savoy Hotel. They burst into his hotel room, only to find the insolent Terry Grandchester who gives "Freckles" a letter by Grandfather William who has already left on his voyage back for the US. Her guardian advizes her to study hard, to grow into a lady, and he promises that someday they will meet.
Finally, they arrive at Saint Paul's Academy, where Candy learns the principal has been waiting for her arrival for three hours already. This does not bode well At the principal's office, Candy is introduced to Sister Gray who chastices Candy for her tardiness. While Klint playing for dead-collar worked in the London centre, the ruse comes to nothing when the assisting Sister Margaret wants Candy to surrender her collar.
Klint runs off into the woods in a panic, causing quite a stir at the boy's dormitories. After Sister Maragaret shows Candy to her room, she meets her helpful neighbour, Patricia O'Brien, who seems to know all encyclopedias by heart and takes Candy on a school tour such as the library and the recreational hall. The children talk so softly it reminds Candy of a funeral.
To make matters worse, her old enemy Eliza loudly introduces Candy as the "Barn Princess", her former maidservant who was abandoned by her parents, and Anthony's murderess. Even Patty avoids Candy after this. Friendless and Klintless Candy returns to her room for the night. On purpose, Patty misinforms Candy about the required attire for the next morning. Archi and Stear soften the blow by complimenting on her appearance in white, but urge her to change into black.
Not escaping Sister Gray's notice though, she has to suffer through the morning prayer in her distinct dress. Then the rebellious Terry Grandchester disturbs the morning prayer by his late arrival and insults, making himself the talk of the school. Candy's thoughts are split between understanding Terry and pitying Sister Gray who surely will run mad if Terry continues in this manner.
When classes start, Candy is misdirected by a "kind" note and she loses her way on the large grounds. But then Klint appears and shows her his new home in a giant tree on a hill, similar to Pony's Hill and the Father Tree.
Rebel Terry breaks into the girls' dorm, waving off Sister Margaret's warnings and assuring his father will pay for the broken window. Meanwhile Patty rejects Candy's attempts to become friends. When Candy returns to her room, she encounters Patricia's grandmother Marsha in her room who picked the wrong room. Terry helped the old woman steal into Candy's room by creating the diversion.
Candy shows Marsha to Patty's room. Patty's grandmother who has been hmoeschooled wants to stay a few days to see for herself how a boarding school compares to it. Patty is much too afraid to hide her, so, Candy decides to house Marsha, repaying Candy by playing the violin and aid Candy with her math homework. The sounds of the violin in Candy's room make Eliza challenge Candy into a recital for the girls. Stear comes up with a scheme where Candy could pretend to play the violin, while the true virtuoso hides behind the curtain.
But the suspicious Eliza will not be fooled and pulls away the curtain and finds Patricia who pretends to be the "real" violinist. After witnessing a few more pranks from Eliza, Grandmother Marsha fumes over the school allowing for such bullying, but then as Patty and Candy grow to become friends she admits you can also befriend wonderufl people like Candy.
When Candy receives a letter from Pony's Home, Eliza and her two friends steal the envelope and mock Pony's Home finances because Miss Pony write their letters on the inside of the envelope to save paper.
When Sister Margaret and Patty enter the scene, Patty retrieves the envelope and Eliza hopes to defame Candy for her violent reaction. But Sister Margaret reminds Eliza that a lady would never read another one's mail.
With Candy gaining supporters, Eliza involves Neil for harsher measures. The next morning, Neil leads her by force into the forest where two of his friends wait to molest her. Terry intervenes, sending the cowards running after a few whip lashes and punches, but Terry rejects Candy's gratitude. Spellbound, Candy stares at him. The cocky Terry teases her with her puppy love reaction and calls her "little Freckles" just like on the ship. He teases her long enough, until he upsets Candy into disliking him for it.
And yet, while she attempts to write to Miss Pony, images of Terry wander around in her mind to Candy's displeasure. Patty passes Candy a note from Archi with morse code on it.
From the other side of the park, Archi uses a torch to invite Candy over to his room for chocolate, Klint and Stear's latest invention. Archi dislikes Terry too, after he punched Archi for a minor mistake. Meanwhile Stear teases Archi over writing Annie Brighton once a week. Candy's excitement about Annie's prospective enrollment in the Academy is tempered by the fact that Annie does not want her origin known.
The night patrol forces Candy to take cover with Klint and return to her room where Patty is waiting to reveal her admiration for Candy's true heart that can understand the heart of others. But when Candy lies in her bed, she thinks she is incapable of understanding Terry, who is a brute one moment and gentle the next.
On the fifth Sunday of a month the pupils are allowed to leave campus for the day as long as they are accompanied by an adult. When Archi, Stear, Eliza and Neil are picked up to visit with their great-aunt, the Cornwell brothers are shocked Candy did not receive an invitation. They become angry when great-aunt Elroy did not even bring a gift for Candy like she did for them, and Archi condems his aunt's decision.
Before the room's temperature can reach the point of freezing, Annie and her mother visit the family. Not allowed to leave the premises, Candy decides to relax on the Other Pony's Hill that renders a great view over London with Klint. She detects Terry smoking and he is his usual obnoxious self: inviting her to smoke along, teasing her about her freckles, calling her "Little Freckles" one moment and "Tarzan" the next, to settle on "Freckled Tarzan.
Then Mr. Brighton, Annie's adoptive father, surprises Candy and invites her for a day into town. Candy hopes to visit Annie in the hotel, but when she learns great-aunt Elroy is there too with the rest of the Ardlay family, she finally understands why she was uninvited.
Her next wish is to visit a place where she can shout and hurl, and so, Mr. Brighton takes her to the horse races at Epson. Brighton go check out the horse at the stables where they meet Terry. He gauds Candy into a bet: if Pony Flash finishes as one of the first three he will never call her "Little Freckles" anymore, but if she loses she will have to serve him.
Pony Flash photo finishes as fourth horse, a meter difference from third place. Candy admits her loss, but Terry declares that it looked like third place to him from where he sat and leaves.
At the end of the day, Candy thanks Mr. Brighton, while he asks her a favor - he wants her to watch over Annie at Saint Paul's Academy. To avoid accidental sentimentality, Annie prefers to sit next to Eliza over Candy. Joining Eliza's clique, Annie must suffer Louisa' gossip about Candy.
Stear and Archi hold an Ardlay reunion where Candy is formally introduced to Annie. Meanwhile Archi gifts Candy the blue headscarf he nagged his great-aunt about. Eliza points out how affectionate Archi is towards Candy and, jealous, Annie excuses herself under the disguise of feeling unwell.
Stear and Candy push Archi into escorting her, but he inadvertently upsets Annie when he talks admiringly of Candy's happy spirit. Much later, Annie approaches Candy, begging her not to steal Archi. Candy assures Annie they are solely friends. But when Archi witnesses Candy give Terry a harmonic to play every time he wants to light a cigarette at the Other Pony Hill, he confronts Candy and expresses feelings of betrayal and jealousy. As it turns out, Archi has loved Candy for years and does not want to lose her to an undeserving miscreant.
Annie who overhears this throws her self-made birthday present at them, and runs off, heartbroken. When Candy runs after her to explain the misunderstanding, Annie accuses Candy of always being everyone's favorite, even at Pony' Home, before running off to hide in a cave. Eliza and Louisa overhear Annie's words and before long Eliza makes sure everyone knows Annie's origin. Candy discovers Annie's hiding place, but realizes it would be better if Archi talks with her.
Archi discovers that while he likes and loves Candy, he thinks of Annie all the time, and convinces Annie of his feelings. While Annie recuperates from her fever, Candy and her make peace.
During a bar fight Terry's leg is wounded after one of the others drew a knife. Albert, who has found a job at the Blue River Zoo tending animals, helps and guides him to the Academy but delivers him at the girls' dorm. Derilious, Terry wanders into Candy's room. She takes his teasing in stride, while trying to patch him up. But Terry needs medicine, and since the school's pharmacy is closed, Candy ventures into town to find a pharmacy.
Albert notices Candy pass by as he sabors his pint and calls out after her. Candy barely recognizes him without his beard and moustache. He looks so much younger without them. When she explains her mission, Albert helps her finding the pharmacy and escorts her back to the Academy.
Candy promises to visit Albert on her next day off, while Klint declines Albert's offer to stay with him at the zoo. When Candy sneaks back in her room via her balcony, she finds Terry gone. Cursing him, Candy's noise attracts Sister Margaret's curiosity. As Candy pretends to be sleeptalking as she dreams, still fully dressed under the covers, Sister Margaret notices she is wearing her boots, and tells her to undo them with a smile.
Stear and Archi invite Annie and Candy to the lab to show Stear's flying boat that works on remote control and can deliver messages. Candy inquires after Terry, not paying attention to the boat anymore resulting in an unfortunate crash. When next Candy meets Terry at the Other Pony Hill, he upsets her again for not showing any gratitude, but teasing her instead and rejectig her concerns. Then when one day Candy visits Albert at the zoo, she discovers Terry there as well and Albert calls them two rebels of Saint Paul's.
When the two young men laugh heartily together, Candy starts to see Terry in a different light. One night, after Archi signals Candy she can visit, Archi's beacon to identify the correct balcony has gone out while the Cornwell brothers fetch a matrass to soften Candy's landing.
Candy chooses wrong and lands in Terry's room. While orientating herself, Candy picks up a picture of the American Broadway actress Eleanor Baker, who turns out to be Terry's mother. Terry enters his room, orders her out and shouts she may never tell anyone about it, while ripping the picture into tiny pieces. She jumps to the other balcony to finally visit Archi and Stear and discovers the two are great admirers of Eleanor Baker and that they own a huge collection of her pictures.
While she picks through the pictures, she comes across one of Anthony. The mood now changed for everyon, Candy returns to her room with the picture as a gift from Stear. Meanwhile, Terry realizes Candy meant no harm and that he acted too harsh. He also regrets tearing up his mother's picture. Terry is the illegitimate son born out of wedlock after a romance between the Duke of Grandchester and Eleanor Baker when the Duke was one of her admirers.
Though Terry is the eldest son, he is a bastard and maltreated by his stepmother. Terry had traveled to New York in the hope of finding and meeting his mother, but she asked him never to visit her again, while he could hear the laughter of her new male admirers behind closed doors.
Remembering all the bad feelings, Terry steals into the barn and gallops off into the woods on his white horse. While Candy reflects on her three sentimental keepsakes in her room, she flashes back to Anthony's accident.
When she sees Terry galloping through the parc, Candy rushes down the emergency stairs in a frenzy and trips. Terry dismounts and carries Candy inside for medical treatment, while she calls out to Anthony. When Candy steals away to the Other Pony Hill to spend time with Klint, Neil and his clique are out and about to find out Candy's secret. Terry finds them skulking and scares them off in a fight.
Having witnessed the fight, Patty too wonders what Candy's secret might be and seeks out Candy on the hill, where Klint can hide right on time. When Patty asks whether Candy never feels alone, she explains that when she does, she visits this hill that reminds her of Pony's Home. As the two run to be in class on time, Patty reveals she has a secret too and will show it to her one day.
Once in class, Candy learns of the annual May festival and that she is elected to be one of the May-flower girls. The festival involves a dance where one is free to pick a partner and invite loved ones. Patty expresses feelings of envy that Candy will not have a problem finding a dance partner: she has two friends, Archi and Stear.
Candy promises to convince Stear into dancing with Patty so that she could dance with someone too. Not hardly wanting to admit it to herself, Candy hopes she might dance with Terry. Instead of wishing for what she supposes will never happen, Candy sends her invitation to Albert. Her next outing to the hill in search of Terry, is as unsuccessful except for Terry's red coat.
Trying to keep up with Candy, Eliza stumbles into a pitfall that Neil had meant for Terry. Terry jumps out of his tree to help pull Eliza out of the pit. She fumes at having to rely on the troublemaker, but when he puts up his most charming act, she softens to him and daydreams he might be her dancing partner at the May festival. Meanwhile, Sister Gray intercepts Patricia bringing her treasure for Candy to see - a turtle named Yuli and decrees Patty needs to dispose of the turtle and remain in confinement in the contemplation room.
Incensed, Candy launches a tirade against the Academy, its rules and Sister Gray, earning her confinement as well as prohibition to take part in the Festival. When Sister Margaret asks Patty to surrender her turtle Yuli before being locked in her contemplation room, Candy uses the nun's goodwill towards her to have the turtle handed over to her.
Locked in a separate contemplaton room, Candy ponders what Albert, Grandfather William and great aunt Elroy would think of her current predicament.
And while Patricia is set free the next morning, Candy has to stay locked in her contemplation room until the festival. When the girls practice dancing for the festival in the park, Candy dances with Patty's turtle and accidentally stumbles against the attic's window that drops out of the roof. This will be Candy's escape window. Only Annie, responsible for playing the music records, witnesses Candy crossing the roofs and walls to escape.
When Candy arrives at Albert's zoo she finds Terry and Albert are laughing up a storm about her nickname "freckled Tarzan". She recovers herself and hands Yuli to Albert. While Albert is called back at work, Terry and Candy are both too self-conscious to talk. As the silence becomes more awkward over time, Terry invites Candy to visit the zoo with him and attempts to satisfy his own curiosity about her. When he asks who Anthony might be, Candy speaks highly of Anthony and mentions his passion for roses.
Terry makes fun of her beau and her feelings for him. Hurt, Candy defends Anthony and reveals the circumstances in which Anthony died. Terry realizes his wild horseride caused Candy to relive her fear.
And though he feels sorry for speaking so about someone who died, Terry cannot utter the necessary apology. Instead, he runs off. Shocked that Terri would speak ill of the dead, Candy tells Albert she believes Terry is a bad person, but Albert refuses to mingle in their fights. When Candy explains about her prohibition to take part in the festival, Albert is very much disappointed in the academy and invites Candy to live with him.
But Candy knows she has to go back and without anyone ever noticing she sneaks back in to the contemplation room where Klint awaits her company. Their mother who was against the idea in the first place does nothing to stop the pestering. And while Mr. Leagan knows Candy's worth and questions his children's stories, he is more absent than present. Before long, Candy is downgraded from Eliza's playmate to servant, and moved from the attic into the barn.
While Candy has every reason and opportunity to run away and return to Pony's Home, she opts to stay, because she believes her hilltop prince to live in the neighboring estate of the Ardley family.
She meets Anthony Brown in almost similar mysterious circumstances in front of the estate's closed rose gates that carry the same symbol as her pendant. Although he is Eliza's favorite, Anthony prefers Candy's company and even grows a new type of rose for her birthday which he names "Sweet Candy". Anthony has two charming cousins who often help Candy: the Cornwell brothers Archibald and inventor Alistear. Candy also finds a friend in the maidservant Dorothy and the vagabond Albert.
While Candy is under the initial impression that Anthony actually is the hilltop prince, she soon learns he cannot be: he has never been to Pony's Hill and he met Candy for the first time at the gates of his late mother's rose garden. As the child romance between Candy and Anthony blooms, Eliza's attempts to rid herself of Candy become more drastic.
Neil frames Candy and makes her out to be a thief. As a consequence, Candy is sent packing as a manual laborer to Mexico. Before getting to the intended destination, however, Candy ends up being kidnapped in Texas. Though she is richly taken care of by her kidnappers, Candy fears she will be trafficked and sold to childless Europeans. Not wanting to put anymore distance between herself and Anthony, she manages to escape in New Orleans and returns to Lakewood by freight train. There she learns that her kidnapper was an employee of a benefactor she has never met: grandfather William Ardley.
Anthony, Archibald and Alistair had written him letters, pleading him to adopt Candy in order to save her from a harsh fate. Candy feels as if she lives in a dream: a rich life at the Ardley home, together with Anthony, Archibald and Alistair.
Eliza and Neil cannot hurt her anymore. And even the severe Ardley matriarch, great-aunt Elroy, eventually warms a little to Candy. But Anthony is envious of this mysterious hilltop prince who stole Candy's heart before he ever met her. He fears Candy only likes him because he looks like him.
Candy manages to appease him by stating she does not care anymore who the hilltop prince might be and that, yes even if they might be twins in looks, she loves the fourteen year old Anthony because he is Anthony. After their first romantic date in town, nothing seems to stand in Candy's way to live a happily ever after from her twelve years on. Anthony even manages to figure out who the hilltop prince must have been. But before he can explain to Candy during a fox hunt, he dies in an unfortunate accident after a fall from his horse.
View 1 comment. Dec 18, Natalia Bas rated it it was amazing Shelves: amor-relacionados , aprendizaje , favorites , infantil-juvenil , manga-comics , yumikoigarashi. Candy Candy fue mi primer manga. Pero en este caso hay que aprender de ello. Jun 07, Maya Widiatmoko rated it it was amazing Shelves: library-collections. Salah satu alasan yg bikin aq suka komik ini adalah setting dan tokoh2nya yg bukan orang Jepang. And believe it or not, aq baru ngeh klo pengarang-nya orang Jepang wkwkwk maklum baca pertama kali waktu masih piyik, udah gitu boleh minjem pulak!
Tapi waktu itu aq memandang tinggi komik ini. Karena kisah-nya yg dewasa! Sedikit tragis juga. Well, setelah tuwir trus baca lagi, masih berpikiran sama. Satu2nya komik yg butuh waktu agak lama membaca-nya. Mar 07, Geral rated it really liked it Shelves: , mangas. Jan 09, Lizz rated it it was amazing.
Odio la vida. Apr 12, Maria Acosta rated it liked it. Aug 22, Janet Sosnowski rated it really liked it. Nov 28, Marie rated it liked it Shelves: manga , , historical. Akhirnya Candy meninggalkan asrama St. Paul secara diam diam dan kembali ke Amerika kerumah Pony. Diperjalanan Candy ditolong oleh sebuah keluarga.
Dikeluarga inilah Candy akhirnya menemukan keinginan dan cita cita menjadi seorang perawat. Candy juga menyusup disebuah kapal yg menuju Amerika dengan bantuan beberapa teman yg ditemuinya di dermaga. Di atas kapalpun Candy berjumpa dengan orang orang yg baik memiliki kemauan dan kerja keras yg menyadarkan Candy akan arti hidup dan keinginan seseoran Akhirnya Candy meninggalkan asrama St. Di atas kapalpun Candy berjumpa dengan orang orang yg baik memiliki kemauan dan kerja keras yg menyadarkan Candy akan arti hidup dan keinginan seseorang untuk meraih cita cita agar kelak berguna bagi orang banyak.
Setiba dirumah pony, Candy hanya selisih sedikit waktu dengan Terry yg berkunjung kerumah dan bukit pony. Dengan bantuan ibu pony dan suster Lein serta anak anak panti, Candy menata hatinya karena perpisahannya dengan Terry. Dimusim panas berikutnya Candy masuk sekolah perawat Mary Jane. Pasien pertama yg dirawat Candy, William Mc Gregor. Awalnya candy mengira ia adalah paman William. Paman William Mc Gregor akhirnya meninggal.
Tapi sebelumnya Candy sudah berusaha keras merawat dan membawa kebahagiaan untuk orang tua itu. Feb 02, Brilliant Hermione rated it it was amazing Shelves: komik-long-lasting.
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