Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

part it was. Grandmother Marshall cared very little for granddaughters

who did not do her credit. But Little Joyce's mother had married a poor man in the face of her family's disapproval, and then both she and her husband had been inconsiderate enough to die and leave a small orphan without a penny to support her. Grandmother Marshall fed and clothed the child, but who cou...