Marilla Cuthbert to Anne Shirley and Diana Barry about another new dress Matthew’s bought for Anne:

"Organdy’s the most unserviceable stuff in the world anyhow, and I told Matthew so when he got it. But there is no use in saying anything to Matthew nowadays. Time was when he would take my advice, but now he just buys things for Anne regardless, and the clerks at Carmody know they can palm anything off on him. Just let them tell him a thing is pretty and fashionable, and Matthew plunks his money down for it.” (373)

From L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, L. C. Page, 1908.