`` Yes , but I ca n't go , Marilla . Your eyes are better , of course ; but I ca n't leave you alone with the twins . They need so much looking after . '' `` I wo n't be alone with them . That 's what I meant to discuss with you . I had a long talk with Rachel tonight . Anne , she 's feeling dreadful bad over a good many things . She 's not left very well off . It seems they mortgaged the farm eight years ago to give the youngest boy a start when he went west ; and they 've never been able to pay much more than the interest since . And then of course Thomas ' illness has cost a good deal , one way or another . The farm will have to be sold and Rachel thinks there 'll be hardly anything left after the bills are settled . She says she 'll have to go and live with Eliza and it 's breaking her heart to think of leaving Avonlea . A woman of her age does n't make new friends and interests easy . And , Anne , as she talked about it the thought came to me that I would ask her to come and live with me , but I thought I ought to talk it over with you first before I said anything to her . If I had Rachel living with me you could go to college . How do you feel about it ? '' `` I feel ... as if ... somebody ... had handed me ... the moon ... and I did n't know ... exactly ... what to do ... with it , '' said Anne dazedly . `` But as for asking Mrs. Lynde to come here , that is for you to decide , Marilla . Do you think ... are you sure ... you would like it ? Mrs. Lynde is a good woman and a kind neighbor , but ... but ... '' `` But she 's got her faults , you mean to say ?
Well , she has , of course ; but I think I 'd rather put up XXXXX far worse faults than see Rachel go away from Avonlea .
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