It 'll soon not be safe to go to sleep in our beds . '' `` Why , what other strangers are coming in ? '' asked Marilla . `` Have n't you heard ? Well , there 's a family of Donnells , for one thing . They 've rented Peter Sloane 's old house . Peter has hired the man to run his mill . They belong down east and nobody knows anything about them . Then that shiftless Timothy Cotton family are going to move up from White Sands and they 'll simply be a burden on the public . He is in consumption ... when he is n't stealing ... and his wife is a slack-twisted creature that ca n't turn her hand to a thing . She washes her dishes SITTING DOWN . Mrs. George Pye has taken her husband 's orphan nephew , Anthony Pye . He 'll be going to school to you , Anne , so you may expect trouble , that 's what . And you 'll have another strange pupil , too . Paul Irving is coming from the States to live with his grandmother . You remember his father , Marilla ... Stephen Irving , him that jilted Lavendar Lewis over at Grafton ? '' `` I do n't think he jilted her . There was a quarrel ... I suppose there was blame on both sides . '' `` Well , anyway , he did n't marry her , and she 's been as queer as possible ever since , they say ... living all by herself in that little stone house she calls Echo Lodge . Stephen went off to the States and went into business with his uncle and married a Yankee .
He 's never been home since , though his mother has been up XXXXX see him once or twice .
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