`` You never said a truer word , '' said Mrs. Rachel solemnly . `` I knew there 'd be trouble when Robert Bell sold his place to a New Brunswick man , that 's what . I do n't know what Avonlea is coming to , with so many strange people rushing into it . 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 XXXXX both sides . ''
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