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Marilla's Eye Trouble from "Anne of Green Gables". Marilla learns from an oculist that she is going blind and must give up reading and sewing. She is devastated and talks of selling Green Gables.

a few days after Matthew's funeral

Marilla's Eye Trouble

Marilla learns from an oculist that she is going blind and must give up reading and sewing. She is devastated and talks of selling Green Gables. Anne, seeing Marilla's despair, makes a momentous decision. This crisis forces Anne to choose between her own ambitions and her duty to the woman who raised her.