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1MARILLA went to town the next day and returned in the evening. Anne had gone over to Orchard Slope with Diana and came
2back to find Marilla in the kitchen, sitting by the table with her head leaning on her hand. Something in her dejected
3attitude struck a chill to Anne's heart. She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that. "Are you very tired,
4Marilla?" "Yes--no--I don't know," said Marilla wearily, looking up. "I suppose I am tired but I haven't thought about
5it. It's not that." "Did you see the oculist? What did he say?" asked Anne anxiously. "Yes, I saw him. He examined my
6eyes. He says that if I give up all reading and sewing entirely and any kind of work that strains the eyes, and if I'm
7careful not to cry, and if I wear the glasses he's given me he thinks my eyes may not get any worse and my headaches
8will be cured. But if I don't he says I'll certainly be stone-blind in six months. Blind! Anne, just think of it!" For a
9minute Anne, after her first quick exclamation of dismay, was silent. It seemed to her that she could not speak. Then
10she said bravely, but with a catch in her voice: "Marilla, don't think of it. You know he has given you hope. If you are
11careful you won't lose your sight altogether; and if his glasses cure your headaches it will be a great thing." "I don't
12call it much hope," said Marilla bitterly. "What am I to live for if I can't read or sew or do anything like that? I
13might as well be blind--or dead. And as for crying, I can't help that when I get lonesome. But there, it's no good
14talking about it. If you'll get me a cup of tea I'll be thankful. I'm about done out. Don't say anything about this to
15any one for a spell yet, anyway. I can't bear that folks should come here to question and sympathize and talk about it."
16When Marilla had eaten her lunch Anne persuaded her to go to bed. Then Anne went herself to the east gable and sat down
17by her window in the darkness alone with her tears and her heaviness of heart. How sadly things had changed since she
18had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with
19promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and
20peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet
21it frankly. One afternoon a few days later Marilla came slowly in from the front yard where she had been talking to a
22caller--a man whom Anne knew by sight as Sadler from Carmody. Anne wondered what he could have been saying to bring that
23look to Marilla's face. "What did Mr. Sadler want, Marilla?" Marilla sat down by the window and looked at Anne. There
24were tears in her eyes in defiance of the oculist's prohibition and her voice broke as she said: "He heard that I was
25going to sell Green Gables and he wants to buy it." "Buy it! Buy Green Gables?" Anne wondered if she had heard aright.
26"Oh, Marilla, you don't mean to sell Green Gables!" "Anne, I don't know what else is to be done. I've thought it all
27over. If my eyes were strong I could stay here and make out to look after things and manage, with a good hired man. But
28as it is I can't. I may lose my sight altogether; and anyway I'll not be fit to run things. Oh, I never thought I'd live
29to see the day when I'd have to sell my home. But things would only go behind worse and worse all the time, till nobody
30would want to buy it. Every cent of our money went in that bank; and there's some notes Matthew gave last fall to pay.
31Mrs. Lynde advises me to sell the farm and board somewhere--with her I suppose. It won't bring much--it's small and the
32buildings are old. But it'll be enough for me to live on I reckon. I'm thankful you're provided for with that
33scholarship, Anne. I'm sorry you won't have a home to come to in your vacations, that's all, but I suppose you'll manage
34somehow." Marilla broke down and wept bitterly. "You mustn't sell Green Gables," said Anne resolutely. "Oh, Anne, I wish
35I didn't have to. But you can see for yourself. I can't stay here alone. I'd go crazy with trouble and loneliness. And
36my sight would go--I know it would." "You won't have to stay here alone, Marilla. I'll be with you. I'm not going to
37Redmond." "Not going to Redmond!" Marilla lifted her worn face from her hands and looked at Anne. "Why, what do you
38mean?" "Just what I say. I'm not going to take the scholarship. I decided so the night after you came home from town.
39You surely don't think I could leave you alone in your trouble, Marilla, after all you've done for me. I've been
40thinking and planning. Let me tell you my plans. Mr. Barry wants to rent the farm for next year. So you won't have any
41bother over that. And I'm going to teach. I've applied for the school here--but I don't expect to get it for I
42understand the trustees have promised it to Gilbert Blythe. But I can have the Carmody school--Mr. Blair told me so last
43night at the store. Of course that won't be quite as nice or convenient as if I had the Avonlea school. But I can board
44home and drive myself over to Carmody and back, in the warm weather at least. And even in winter I can come home
45Fridays. We'll keep a horse for that. Oh, I have it all planned out, Marilla. And I'll read to you and keep you cheered
46up. You sha'n't be dull or lonesome. And we'll be real cozy and happy here together, you and I." Marilla had listened
47like a woman in a dream. "Oh, Anne, I could get on real well if you were here, I know. But I can't let you sacrifice
48yourself so for me. It would be terrible." "Nonsense!" Anne laughed merrily. "There is no sacrifice. Nothing could be
49worse than giving up Green Gables--nothing could hurt me more. We must keep the dear old place. My mind is quite made
50up, Marilla. I'm not going to Redmond; and I am going to stay here and teach. Don't you worry about me a bit." "But your
51ambitions--and--" "I'm just as ambitious as ever. Only, I've changed the object of my ambitions. I'm going to be a good
52teacher--and I'm going to save your eyesight. Besides, I mean to study at home here and take a little college course all
53by myself. Oh, I've dozens of plans, Marilla. I've been thinking them out for a week. I shall give life here my best,
54and I believe it will give its best to me in return. When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like
55a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies
56around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I
57wonder how the road beyond it goes--what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows--what new
58landscapes--what new beauties--what curves and hills and valleys further on." "I don't feel as if I ought to let you
59give it up," said Marilla, referring to the scholarship. "But you can't prevent me. I'm sixteen and a half, 'obstinate
60as a mule,' as Mrs. Lynde once told me," laughed Anne. "Oh, Marilla, don't you go pitying me. I don't like to be pitied,
61and there is no need for it. I'm heart glad over the very thought of staying at dear Green Gables. Nobody could love it
62as you and I do--so we must keep it." "You blessed girl!" said Marilla, yielding. "I feel as if you'd given me new life.
63I guess I ought to stick out and make you go to college--but I know I can't, so I ain't going to try. I'll make it up to
64you though, Anne."
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