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There’ll be a risk, no matter who we get. But I’ll feel easier in my mind and sleep sounder at nights if we get a born Canadian.’ So in the end we decided to ask Mrs. Spencer to pick us out one when she went over to get her little girl.
We heard last week she was going, so we sent her word by Richard Spencer’s folks at Carmody to bring us a smart, likely boy of about ten or eleven.
We decided that would be the best age-old enough to be of some use in doing chores right and young enough to be trained up proper. We mean to give him a good home and schooling.
We had a telegram from Mrs. Alexander Spencer today — the mail-man brought it from the station — saying they were coming on the five-thirty train tonight.
So Matthew went to Bright River to meet him. Mrs. Spencer will drop him off there. Of course, she goes on to White Sands station herself.”
Mrs. Rachel prided herself on always speaking her mind; she proceeded to speak it now, having adjusted her mental attitude to this amazing piece of news.
” Well, Marilla, I’ll just tell you plainly that I think you’re doing a mighty foolish thing — a risky thing, that’s what. You don’t know what you’re getting.
You’re bringing a strange child into your house and home and you don’t know a single thing about him nor what his disposition is like nor what sort of parents he had nor how he’s likely to turn out.
and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night-set it on purpose, Marilla — and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
And I know another case where an adopted boy used to suck the eggs – they couldn’t break him of it. If you had asked my advice on the matter.
Lynde’s husband ” — w» sowing his late ttinfip seed
on the hill field beyond the bam ; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
Mrs. Rachel knew that he ought because she had heard him tell Peter Morrison the evening before in William J. Blair’s store over at Carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon.
Peter had asked him, of course, for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information about anything in his whole life.
And yet here was Matthew Cuthbert, at half-past three on the afternoon of a busy day, placidly driving over the hollow and up the hill; moreover, he wore a white collar and his best suit of clothes, which was plain proof that he was going out of Avonlea; and he had the buggy and the sorrel mare, which betokened that he was going a considerable distance.
Now, where was Matthew Cuthbert going and why was he going there?
Had it been any other man in Avonlea Mrs. Rachel, deftly putting this and that together, might have given a pretty good guess as to both questions.
But Matthew so rarely went from home that it must be something pressing and unusual which was taking him; he was the shyest man alive and hated to have to go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk.
Matthew, dressed up with a white collar and driving in a buggy, was something that didn’t happen often.
” I’ll just step over to Green Gables after tea and find out from Marilla where he’s gone and why,” the worthy woman finally concluded. ”
He doesn’t : generally go to town this time of year and he never visits; if he’d run out of turnip seed he wouldn’t dress up and take the buggy to go for more; he wasn’t driving fast enough to be going for a doctor.
Yet something must have happened since last night to start him off.
I’m clean puzzled, that’s what, and I won’t know a minute’s peace of mind or conscience until I know what has taken Matthew Cuthbert out of Avonlea to-day.”
Accordingly after tea Mrs. Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from L)mde’s Hollow.
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further. Matthew Cuthbert’s father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he founded his homestead.
Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated.
Mrs. Rachel L3mde did not call living in such a place living at all.
| Writer | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 457 |
| Pdf Size | 15.4 MB |
| Category | Fiction |
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