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[crantz]

Oh my god.

Snacky has just informed me that Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert (the people who adopt Anne) in Anne of Green Gables are, in fact, siblings and not a married couple like I'd assumed all these years and even in my reread.

Oh my god.

Oh, here's where they said it:

"Guess there's some mistake," he said. "Mrs. Spencer came off the train with that girl and gave her into my charge. Said you and your sister were adopting her from an orphan asylum and that you would be along for her presently. That's all I know about it—and I haven't got any more orphans concealed hereabouts."

I'm a blind man!

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[crantz]

Ah, if only I'd read Three Musketeers before Anne of Green Gables, I'd have a Musketeer icon to use for en engarding people!