I 've often had to scold her well for her heedlessness . '' `` It was our own fault , '' said Marilla resignedly . `` We should have come to you ourselves and not left an important message to be passed along by word of mouth in that fashion . Anyhow , the mistake has been made and the only thing to do is to set it right . Can we send the child back to the asylum ? I suppose they 'll take her back , wo n't they ? '' `` I suppose so , '' said Mrs. Spencer thoughtfully , `` but I do n't think it will be necessary to send her back . Mrs. Peter Blewett was up here yesterday , and she was saying to me how much she wished she 'd sent by me for a little girl to help her . Mrs. Peter has a large family , you know , and she finds it hard to get help . Anne will be the very girl for you . I call it positively providential . '' Marilla did not look as if she thought Providence had much to do with the matter . Here was an unexpectedly good chance to get this unwelcome orphan off her hands , and she did not even feel grateful for it . She knew Mrs. Peter Blewett only by sight as a small , shrewish-faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones . But she had heard of her . `` A terrible worker and driver , '' Mrs. Peter was said to be ; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess , and her family of pert , quarrelsome children . Marilla felt a qualm of conscience at the thought of handing Anne over to her tender mercies . `` Well , I 'll go in and we 'll talk the matter over , '' she said . `` And if there is n't Mrs. Peter coming up the lane this blessed minute ! '' exclaimed Mrs. Spencer , bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor , where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green , closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed .
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