"Only don't say I didn't warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well--I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.

Only, it was a girl in that instance." "Well, we're not getting a girl," said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy.

"I'd never dream of taking a girl to bring up.

I wonder at Mrs.Alexander Spencer for doing it.

But there, SHE wouldn't shrink from adopting a whole orphan asylum if she took it into her head." Mrs.Rachel would have liked to stay until Matthew came home with his imported orphan.