_I just read the first chapter of the wonderful classic "Anne of Green Gables"
It broke so many editing 'rules.' Used words like 'little' and 'very' and two uses of 'very' in the one sentence.  And guess what - it was the BEST written chapter I have read in a long while.   I am beginning to think I should throw out some of the rule books. 
For example, AutoCrit tells me I use see/saw/hear and feel words too often.  Well - heck - my characters are in touch with feelings, they feel and they are in a wonderful landscape of inland Australia and living by working with the elements of that landscape do they need to 'see.'
If L.M.Montgomery is an example of what not to do, please may I one day write as well as she did. I thought her writing beautiful.