Anne of Green Gables

By Lucy Maud Montgomery

CHAPTER I: Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised

[…] Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it. She looked like a woman of narrow experience and rigid conscience, which she was; but there was a saving something about her mouth which, if it had been ever so slightly developed, might have been considered indicative of a sense of humor.[To be continued…]

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