If we do n't take them we do n't know who will , nor what kind of influences may surround them . Suppose Mrs. Keith 's next door neighbors , the Sprotts , were to take them . Mrs. Lynde says Henry Sprott is the most profane man that ever lived and you ca n't believe a word his children say . Would n't it be dreadful to have the twins learn anything like that ? Or suppose they went to the Wiggins ' . Mrs. Lynde says that Mr. Wiggins sells everything off the place that can be sold and brings his family up on skim milk . You would n't like your relations to be starved , even if they were only third cousins , would you ? It seems to me , Marilla , that it is our duty to take them . '' `` I suppose it is , '' assented Marilla gloomily . `` I daresay I 'll tell Mary I 'll take them . You need n't look so delighted , Anne . It will mean a good deal of extra work for you . I ca n't sew a stitch on account of my eyes , so you 'll have to see to the making and mending of their clothes . And you do n't like sewing . '' `` I hate it , '' said Anne calmly , `` but if you are willing to take those children from a sense of duty surely I can do their sewing from a sense of duty . It does people good to have to do things they do n't like ... in moderation . '' VIII Marilla Adopts Twins Mrs. Rachel Lynde was sitting at her kitchen window , knitting a quilt , just as she had been sitting one evening several years previously when Matthew Cuthbert had driven down over the hill with what Mrs. Rachel called `` his imported orphan . '' But that had been in springtime ; and this was late autumn , and all the woods were leafless and the fields sere and brown . The sun was just setting with a great deal of purple and golden pomp behind the dark woods west of Avonlea when a buggy drawn by a comfortable brown nag came down the hill . Mrs. Rachel peered at it eagerly .
`` There 's Marilla getting home from the funeral , '' she said XXXXX her husband , who was lying on the kitchen lounge .
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