Chapter 1
'If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different.' One of Montgomery's most famous opening lines, framing the role of chance in Valancy's awakening.
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From The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
The novel opens with Valancy Stirling waking on her twenty-ninth birthday to a cold rain, immediately establishing her bleak, joyless existence as an old maid in the Stirling clan.
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