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Today's story is a chapter from the classic novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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Chapter 1

Mrs. Rachel Lind is surprised.

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow,

fringed with alders and ladies' earardrops and traversed by a brook that had

its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place. It was reputed to be an intricate

headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade.

But by the time it reached Lynn's Hollow, it was a quiet, well-conducted little

stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynn's door without due regard for

decency and decorum. It probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window,

keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed,

from Brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place,

she would never rest until she had ferreted out the wise and wherefores thereof.

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their

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