Sentence No. 97 · 2 July 2026
She did not seem to worry in the least over the fact that her mother was not speaking to her
L. M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
L. M. Montgomery — The Blue Castle (1926) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the negative-degree idiom "in the least" — it always modifies the verb that comes before it (here, "worry"), never starts a clause. Spotting such fixed idiomatic units lets you anchor the middle of a sentence before sorting the rest.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 7 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A woman reflects on her quiet life after receiving devastating news. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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