CHAPTER XXXI - MRS. MATILDA PITTMAN
"But to give Jims up to a roving, shiftless, irresponsible father, however kind and good-hearted he might be—and she knew Jim Anderson was kind and good-hearted enough—was a bitter prospect to Rilla. It was not even likely Anderson would stay in the Glen; he had no ties there now; he might even go back to England. She might never see her dear, sunshiny, carefully brought-up little Jims again. With such a father what might his fate be? Rilla meant to beg Jim Anderson to leave him with her, but, from his letter, she had not much hope that he would."
Ok I somehow never noticed the part where she was going to beg to keep Jims. My heart!
"Hannah Brewster, when she had been Hannah Crawford, had lived in the Glen and gone to school with Rilla. They had been good friends then, though Hannah had been three years the older."
Hey! Rilla has a good friend! And an older one at that. Rilla always tagging along with older kids (as you so as the youngest of a big clan).
"rosy-faced, open-hearted, generous Hannah lived."
Poor Hannah - she needs a Matilda Pittman rescue too.
"The independent Miss Blythe, whom a certain clique of Junior Red Cross girls accused of being domineering and "bossy," was thoroughly cowed. "Thank you," she said meekly, "but we must really go."
LOL
