"and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed."

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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

— Lucy Maud Montgomery