So it fell out that Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde and the twins came to Four Winds for Christmas . Marilla had the face of a woman who had circumnavigated the globe . She had never been sixty miles away from home before ; and she had never eaten a Christmas dinner anywhere save at Green Gables . Mrs. Rachel had made and brought with her an enormous plum pudding . Nothing could have convinced Mrs. Rachel that a college graduate of the younger generation could make a Christmas plum pudding properly ; but she bestowed approval on Anne 's house . `` Anne 's a good housekeeper , '' she said to Marilla in the spare room the night of their arrival . `` I 've looked into her bread box and her scrap pail . I always judge a housekeeper by those , that 's what . There 's nothing in the pail that should n't have been thrown away , and no stale pieces in the bread box . Of course , she was trained up with you -- but , then , she went to college afterwards . I notice she 's got my tobacco stripe quilt on the bed here , and that big round braided mat of yours before her living-room fire . It makes me feel right at home . '' Anne 's first Christmas in her own house was as delightful as she could have wished . The day was fine and bright ; the first skim of snow had fallen on Christmas Eve and made the world beautiful ; the harbor was still open and glittering . Captain Jim and Miss Cornelia came to dinner . Leslie and Dick had been invited , but Leslie made excuse ; they always went to her Uncle Isaac West 's for Christmas , she said . `` She 'd rather have it so , '' Miss Cornelia told Anne . `` She ca n't bear taking Dick where there are strangers . Christmas is always a hard time for Leslie . She and her father used to make a lot of it . ''
Miss Cornelia and Mrs. XXXXX did not take a very violent fancy to each other .
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